There was a time when everything could be lost… except our soul. Today, everything can be lost… except our inseparable touch screen rectangle. Read More
J.F.A.
In the Kingdom of Mediocrity...
... where the mediocre is the king... and the sublime, the villain.
It is practically mandatory to turn to the past to read a good book, listen to a brilliant song, watch a magnificent movie or admire an extraordinary work of art. And not because there are no excellent writers, composers and artists today, but because there is an effort to impose the poisonous, degrading and decadent “creativity” that floods the mass media, the internet and social networks, turning those ones into a kind of freaks and the true freaks into social references. Read More
Leave the Ventana Open...
... and tell me si debo ir o quedarme.
An anecdote about the mythical British band The Clash takes us to a night out in university Salamanca at the beginning of the 90s. Two friends, a place, a bar, a few drinks, a friendship… and an enigmatic song… Read More
Caught by The Net
What happened to that ocean of freedom and democratization in access to information that the Internet brought as standard? Are we more or less free since the emergence of The Network of networks in our lives? Did it begin as a vehicle of freedom and has it ended up becoming an instrument of control? Perhaps… have we fallen into The Network? Or have we been trapped by it? And once entangled… how to get out of it? Read More
Is the Parthenon a Pile of Stones?
What would you say? Read More
Capitalism, Socialism and Agenda 2030
Isn’t there some system in between, capable of capturing the best of capitalism and socialism, while discarding their respective flaws? Is that the “solution” promoted by those of You will own nothing and you will be happy … it’s not quite convincing… Read More
Face to Face with John Travolta...
... on a grease gray day.
What could happen if you find yourself standing next to the pump, pouring gas into your car and, suddenly, you realize that a few meters from you, the protagonist of Grease or Saturday Night Fever, is doing the same? Read More
The Candidate Hope
The following short story is about a mysterious girl. A girl turned into a lady who is presented to us with an angelic, neat and spotless face… but that actually hides a mysterious personality. Her name: Democracy; her fate: a disappointment. Read More
Slap at the Wrong Time
He had started at school like all the children of his generation, or almost all; that is, very innocent and with very good intentions. The school would be his second home; the teachers, his second parents. Or that was what he had been told. And he, naturally, trusted. Read More
Philosophy Academy
Dressed in gleaming pure white robes, brown leather sandals, rainbow-colored caps and green silicone bracelets emblazoned with environmentalist slogans -such as ‘Nuclear holocaust can wait’ or ‘For a planet free of enriched plutonium’-, Seneca, Plato, Aristotle and Pythagoras maintained a calm and useless conversation whose epicenter was none other than the concept of friendship. Read More
