Open letter to a delirious country

A powerful football club ruled by a once-idolized feudal boss and a popular figure. There's no distance between the mafia and failure. And how are we doing in the AFA?

They allegedly trafficked completed exams to gain access to medical residencies. The irregularity is obvious. The victims are honest students.

Twenty-four police officers from the province of Buenos Aires have been placed on hold —allegedly—for having fraternized with Maximiliano Bondarenko, a retired former police officer and candidate for the La Libertad Avanza party. Is revenge both a method and a message?

According to the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security, it wasn't a fraternal act, but rather a planned destabilization of the police leadership. The provincial Peronist party lined up for the elections amid insults and bravado.

The son of the former president and the governor are in an ugly ring, filled with shouting and accusations. Precarious electoral societies of convenience. The will for power trumps all convictions. Or is it the business of power that unites them?

A gang of sycophants and online insulters, uncritical and pro-government, are firing off more insults than ever for being excluded from elected office in the province. Didn't they fill the social media with militant aggression simply out of conviction? What did those barbs and the self-serving cult of personality add up to?

The libertarian victors of the internal elections, for their part, look too much like the Peronists of old. To defeat this much-feared monster, is it necessary to mimic oneself so closely with one's adversaries? Could shady business dealings dirty the hands of the newly re-established Menemist regime?

A US ambassador arrives with anti-Chinese loudspeakers, and doubts arise about potential Chinese investments in various provinces. Between Trump and Beijing's gold, the balance is unstable.

The president and vice president live in opposing worlds . She is not part of the government, it has been officially stated.

Love doesn't prevail, and fear doesn't unite them. Everything separates them. Their mutual anger is exponential.

Everyday life goes through hells that are not exceptional.

Doctor Pablo Ghisoni spent three years in prison, chained to death, on charges of aggravated sexual abuse against his own children. It was false. One of his sons, Tomás, grew up, evaluated, thought, remembered, and finally told the truth . His mother had manipulated them into lying in such an atrocious way.

A degenerate in Salta offered children money to send him intimate photos. It's sexual abuse. And children are left without their cell phones. It's a case discovered by the mother of one of the victims, but it's also a widespread plague. There are hidden cases in abundance.

There are underlying issues, circumstances that constitute the foundation for countless evils. Proven ignorance is growing.

Various estimates confirm a decrease in the average number of words used by Argentines, although this phenomenon is believed to be global. In Spanish, a person uses an average of 500 to 1,000 words. However, young people have reduced their Spanish to an average of 250 words . An educated person can speak 2,000 words, and someone exceptional, like Borges, for example, could speak up to 5,000 words.

These are estimates because language is a dynamic fluidity. However, the condensation of terms is due to several factors: the need to shorten texts on social media, a certain simplification that one dimension of media communication requires, which is urgently seeking attention, and also a predominance of confrontation over argumentation.

Verbal confrontations are supposed to be more productive than the most arduous and sometimes slow-moving argumentative polemic.

There is a linguistic sensationalism that dwarfs exchanges, and lexicographical brains are shrinking. Speech is dominated by grandiloquent aggression and a lack of coherent ideas, a reduction in the general IQ imbued with verbal simplistic thinking.

This slide culminates in a wound on the quality of coexistence, in an infection that brings other infections closer together; the triumph of the squaring of functional illiteracy.

A collective defeat in which violence, the feudalization of football, the impoverishment of political disputes, and also the threats that maliciously disrupt family life all converge viciously.

There's a cultural crisis. This crisis isn't just about ivory tower culture.

On the contrary, it is a background, a swamp where broken words and battered education sink the best and refloat the worst.

The decline flows beyond and beyond the political situation.

The exam affair reflects this dramatically.

Or the fakers who copy because they don't study win.

Or the best win, those who make the effort, those who take responsibility for honesty.

It is the sinister or the vital.

Ignorance is delirium because it lacks reason. It imposes itself through the arrogance of mental emptiness. Because the delirium of the swamp of ignorance is a gallows for all.

There's a tremendous and wonderful book by Albert Camus: The Fall. A walker watches as a woman throws herself off a bridge into a frozen river. She doesn't even turn around. She continues on in her lethal indifference.