Zombie apocalypse

A human mass struggles to forcefully break into a supermarket, open on the day of "country strike" that has been called from power - including not a few entrepreneurs. Half a dozen mossos d'esquadra tries to contain them, with the word and persuasion. When that fails, and the mass threatens to pass them over, they take out their defenses, which they take for that purpose, and blow back the crowd that tries to accommodate them. They push it this way beyond the metal closures of the store, which come down to protect themselves. While the closures are not yet completely depressed, the dough begins to pound them, and as soon as they can also kick it, with a roar of enraged beast. The sequence sounds to us, we have seen it before: we are attending a zombie movie.

The movie continues at night, in the streets of downtown Barcelona. Compact groups of adolescents and post-adolescents captained by individuals a little older than them, and that communicate through a technological platform that is already seen that none of them have programmed or operate, pounce in droves against law enforcement , throw them Hundreds of cobblestones, tear out street furniture and build barricades that burn without taking care of whether trees, or buildings or cars, or people are nearby. Occasionally the police manages to bag one, who falls to the ground in screams, while his teammates retreat to the race without making the slightest gesture to help him. Without thinking that next time you can touch them or that stoning the authority can take them six years to jail. Simply, that mental operation surpasses them. Therefore, among other things, they do not wonder who created the app that directs them or what they are after. Like good zombies.

On the same day, hundreds of thousands of protesters are pronounced in a supposedly peaceful manner against the same sentence that serves as a pretext to the raging incendiary of angry teenagers. They are people older than them, with age to be their parents and grandparents, accompanied by children, who do not hesitate to use and display shouting their slogans before the television cameras. It is not hard for the observer to see violent zombies in these children tomorrow or the day after tomorrow ; it is hard for him to accept that this cheerful crowd wrapped in the flag with the star, and that he does not hesitate to use his children as a means for his purposes, is as innocent as he thinks.

When a journalist brings the microphone to one of those who set fire to the streets of Barcelona, ​​the worst intuitions are confirmed. He says he protests against a sentence of one hundred years in jail, which he has not read or understood ; that is there because their parents and grandparents do not have the strength to be and that they know it and see it well. Thus the effect of a propaganda that has managed to infantilize and inflame a generation is credited, with the infamous purpose of using it as a battering ram and exposing it to the risk that its older worshipers do not have the courage to run. That none of those convicted by the sentence will be effectively deprived of liberty for more than three years, that the sentence is not for putting ballot boxes, but for doing so in violation of all minority laws and rights and for throwing a society into The civil fracture is something that the kid neither knows nor cares about, because they have already taken care of it.

Not everything is a disaster, however, in this hour of the zombie apocalypse. Faced with the rude lack of presence of the one who messes up the presidency of the Generalitat and the worst mayor that the city remembers -so much accumulation of catastrophes in a city in such a short time something owes to who directs its consistory-, there are planted and faja policemen who defend the rights of all those not seized by secessionist anger and demonstrate the consistency of a society that has a law and who defends it against the abuse and subjugation of few or many. They are policemen who represent the two identities of that society, the Catalan and the Spanish , revealing to those who insist on dissociating one another from the obtuse radicality of their error. And they could be more, if the civil guards who are also police officers of Spain and Catalonia were not retained. If it is to keep them as a reserve or ashamed to resort to them, someone will have to explain it. In any case, the State, the Generalitat, the city and the honest citizens have someone to support their cause.

That is what matters now, in front of the zombies, in front of their cowardly ideologues and in front of their dark manipulators. Then the time will come to explore the reasons for this failure, which is both Catalan and Spanish society . Reasons that can be found in education policies that were never addressed with the strategic dimension they have, the often gross and irresponsible management of territorial complexity, the long-neglected constitutional wear, the growing inequality and its impact on the youngest, the absence of a long-term vision and the suicidal option for short-term, when not the pillage for the benefit of the ruling classes.

All that, when the fire ceases. Now, the law and only the law.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Barcelona
• Catalonia
• Spain
• Catalonia independence
• Mossos d'Esquadra
• National Police
• Civil Guard

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