The disenchantment of Víctor Gómez Pin: "Bullfighting has to measure its abyss"

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(Barcelona, 1944) is not interested in

the defense of bullfighting.

At least he is no longer interested, after having repeated the same arguments so many times.

"I have them so repeated that I am ashamed. I am not going to repeat them even once more," says

in Catalonia.

"The defense that the PP made at that time was null. Null," he recalls.

The thinker, who has just released a

,

(Cliff), was disappointed with the string of ecological values, alluding to freedom and all that for nothing.

As it does not work now.

A decade later there is an abandoned bullring, a hobby that is languishing and the disenchantment of Gómez Pin.

"Paraphrasing Césare Pavese, bullfighting has to measure the

where it is.

There are several causes that have placed it there.

One of them is anthropological.

No one is to blame.

And it affects bullfighting as well as hunters or certain gastronomic traditions.

It is a well known thing.

The knowledge of the high degree of genetic homology that exists between some animals and human beings has led to a transformation of classical ethical behavior.

The imperative has been extended that instrumentalization not only should not affect human beings but denies it to any being that is susceptible to suffering. "

Bullfighting no longer has the ideas of Víctor Gómez Pin, who considers man "an emergency of nature. The appearance of man is not comparable to others."

.

The usual list is the past, a string of topics.

Picasso, Goya, Hemingway or Lorca are obvious.

They are an alibi. They can say that they were anachronistic aspects of their personalities. Proust remembered that the gays defended themselves in his time claiming that Descartes was it just as the Jews tried to save themselves saying that Jesus was it.

Víctor Gómez Pin has taken a step to the side just before becoming commonplace.

This desertion is caused by "the others,

."

For the others, he refers to the "party that demanded internal unity, a strong hand against immigration, a limit to permissiveness in the matter of vindication of one's sexuality and rejection of the laws that aim at effective equality between men and women. It is a party that carries that in his attitude who chooses a bullfighter as an emblematic character. That image of the bullfighter on horseback,

, his repeated toasts to the head of it, give an alibi to a political drive that I consider literally regressive . Political drive as lethal as were the political positions of his analogues in the past. What would this bullfighter have done if he had shown respect for bullfighting? I have been a close friend of

. Antonio would never have thought of doing something similar. I knew that the defense of bullfighting did not happen there. It is not a smart position. "

"I am very left-wing. Since adolescence. When I arrive in Paris [to study philosophy at the Sorbonne] the first thing I do is look for political activism. The only one that was worthwhile at that time, you know what it is," he recalls.

He blames Vox, "that party that I am not going to name", of justifying some atrocities on the left.

"In August 2019 a member of United We Can, with whom he may share many ideas, may have voted in favor of the Minimum Vital Income, in short

. I wonder what happened There will be people from Cádiz to the French moors and even Cali and Ceret who, without having set foot in a bullring, consider bullfighting part of their cultural heritage. To that boy I would say: do you realize the weight of your words, the deep offense inflicted on millions of people? Do you realize what it means to treat millions of people like barbarians? Those two things, animalism and politics, make it very difficult for defenders of bullfighting to escape criticism ", analyze.

The Toro de Lidia Foundation considers bullfighting

.

The objective to definitively change our relationship with animals.

Gómez Pin disagrees.

Bullfighting is not the dam of anything: "Bullfighting, unfortunately in Spain, is being greatly recovered by a sector that I do not consider a factor of humanism."

Nor does he conceive it as a mass spectacle.

"It has to know that it is a minority and

. It must be defended where it is. And not try to expand its field of action" or, what is the same, explain it.

Gómez Pin considers, therefore, that bullfighting and its defenders are not up to the challenge posed to them.

"I have the feeling that, agonizing,

in today's society, the last thing she has to do is accept the refuge that representatives of an ideological universe give her that sometimes merely uses bullfighting. as the blood of a starving dog serves the tick. When there is a great danger you have to have a great response. Bullfighting does not have it. "

Bulls are indeed the last frontier of irony: ban them in the name of environmentalism.

"If you tell a wild cattle farmer that in the name of ecology they are going to prohibit his work, he does not understand a word. Everyone who has visited a cattle ranch knows it.

. It is a vision that It mixes anthropology, philosophy and some religious currents. Environmentalism is confused with that discourse. My friend Alejandro Talavante, who lives locked up in the countryside, is more ecologist than any voter who has voted for ecologists in the last French elections. "

Will they throw away the statues of the bullfighters?

"What will happen in Ronda? There are monuments to poets and bullfighters. I do not know if they will respect them. If this continues, will we do without Alexander the Great, whose tutor was Aristotle?"

No bullfighter is already a hero to almost anyone.

"One day I asked

if any producer would opt for the millionaire production of Carmen, by Francesco Rossi, which pays tribute to the matadors, rather than for the stage direction of the opera by Vietto, where a bullfighting world is represented grotesque and seedy. He said none. "

-Do we have the right to use animals?

-

, for example.

There are animals that are beneficial.

A peasant loves his dog very much.

And his cow, but he doesn't compare her to his daughter.

It feeds them.

The energy it gives you is returned in the form of effort.

We are the first to feed another species demanding not return of energy but love.

Before we demanded affection from children.

Now, in Barcelona, ​​there are more pets than children.

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