“We are witnessing the devastation of the rule of law,” he says Rubén Amonone of the most renowned and well-known journalists in Spain, in this interview in which we talk about the art of speaking and listening and politics.
He started doing culture, he was a war correspondent in the Balkans and now, every morning, he talks with Alsina about current politics. He is also at night with Pablo Motos in The anthill and directs and presents Culture on Onda Cero. Furthermore, he is a writer and has just published we need to talka book that invites us to reflect on current society plagued by beings who talk a lot, but speak little and listen to nothing or almost nothing. A society of interests with few interesting people; people who have forgotten to talk about ideas, history or culture, to get lost in the window of social networks, even in the noise of chatter.
Socrates and Plato were left behind with their dialogues to learn and acquire knowledge; Oscar Wilde and his art of ephemeral and private conversation; lucid aphorisms. Today, Amón tells us that we are evolving more in the path of Godwin, who abandons himself to plotting amalgams with his outbursts and his hyperbolic sentences. He says that “we could go through life without saying anything, accepting clichés and proverbs” which rely on the prestige of the obvious. We also add common places, clichés and slogans. We can therefore have the face of a poem, but what poem? Ah, that’s the thing.
It has three taboo subjects, which should not be talked about: money, illnesses as a constant subject of complaint, and men’s boasting about female conquests.
And since it is about talking about important things, in addition to recalling the benefits of airing the tongue for our health and deepening the importance of silence, of listening to learn, reflect and give importance to the other interlocutor, in this interview we talk about what we mean today by progressivism, politics and journalism who governs with the impartiality of the courageous and the symphony of slogans, with the corresponding changes of position that are necessary, of those who play for the Government.
He claims that “Today’s progressivism has become prudish and puritanical and he is afraid to identify with freedom of expression and, through excessive zeal, he ends up harming it. It seems very serious to confuse the ideological affinity of a social democrat with tolerance towards a nepotist, Caesarist and authoritarian system which has perverted the value of institutions, when it has not seized them, and which has disfigured the ethics and minimal constitutional sensitivity. This is why he is worried about the drift of the low country the government of Pedro Sánchezand wonders where Sánchez’s ideological threshold is when he governs with ultra-conservative parties like Junts or when he does so, according to his convenience, with far-left forces. Behind this, as he says, lies the gentleness and tolerance of Spanish society, of individuals, in the face of the president’s measures.
He tells us about the two planets created by polarization: Fachosphere And Sanchosphereabout to collide. Remember that the last guest of the Fachosphere is the Financial Times and warns of its dimensions and lack of space, exclaiming: “In the Fachosphere “We are no longer in good shape.” Asphyxiation which leads him to ask Sánchez, with the grace exuded by his irony, to enlarge the dimensions of the planet of Mordor on which there is beginning to be too much sulfur.
The Fachospherehe says, that’s all Sánchez understands as a reason for discussion and contrast. This is where the persecution of hoaxes comes from. Rubén Amón has no doubt that the mud machine is in Ferraz, “the great hoax manufacturing factory with which he completely trained us. Sánchez stands against them when he is the first to encourage them.
This high-decibel polarization which “greases the system of social gathering”, radicalizes positions and cultivates ideologies without ideas and the most atavistic Cainism. Moreover, in the book he tells us that one day, some time ago, Carlos Alsina was proposed to Pedro Sánchez as a talk show host.
Rubén Amón states that Sánchez has nothing to do with socialism or social democracybut with a dazzling capacity for adaptation; which feeds on the opposition of those who question its political aberrations. “The threat of the right’s arrival repeatedly works for him.” And with this inoculated fear which obscures the vision of a large part of the citizens, he remains in power. He believes that this legislature will be completed and is convinced that a decade of sanchism will mean the total malnutrition of the credibility of the system of cooperation of institutions, the partisan use of the institutions themselves, the degeneration of democratic life, of propaganda .
“The skepticism produced by this political class only leads to this idea that the institutions are empty. Sánchez has worked a lot in this direction.
You know that when he finishes working, Rubén Amón turns off the taximeter and needs distance and relief because he is overwhelmed and a little tired of himself. He, who tells us that we must speak, is very silent. He reserves conversations for like-minded people, aware that the best of them happen when they have no purpose.
