Los papeles de Boris

Transform CO2 into diamonds. It is what some Danish artist proposed to Chinese authorities as a response to reduce unbearable levels of pollution that their major cities have reached, due to several decades of irresponsible behavior of this hybrid social model that combines wild capitalism with bold communism. If we were to look into the mythology, the closest representation of this hybrid creation would be Hydra, the seven headed monster from the Greek mythology. For every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow one or multiple heads. So, in this story the Artist proposed converting pollution into diamonds and hydra (of course) both it. What Hydra knows is that the purpose of art has never been to solve the problem, but to bring it out to human attention. What the Artist doesn’t (or doesn’t want to) know is the power that hydra has over our attention. It controls almost all the channels that shape the human attention. And any idea that helps hydra keep all its heads at the...

New York, Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels, Nice,…. Bagdad, Mogadishu, Alepo,… Who’s next? When is it going to end? We can continue arming us to teeth’s and bombing far away deserts, but it will only make us keep on walking our streets in fear, making sure that there are no suspicious faces before taking that bus, metro, train or plane. Eventually it will provoke locking ourselves voluntarily more and more into the safety of our houses. And then, that’s it. They win. All of them. The ones that put bombes and shoot innocent people on the streets and those whose greed made possible for them to come out of their holes and get so powerful persuading hopeless kids that their acts will bring justice. There is no justice in the death of the innocent. Not here. Not there. Not anywhere. That is why instead of seeking solutions in violence trying to exterminate the symptoms, we must go to the cause. Follow the trail that opened up the Pandora box and keeps causing misery, inequal...

Being social animals we are susceptible to experience reality from the same premise as the members of the group we are identified with. This group can be football club fans or a nation. Deep down the principle is the same and it forms a key aspect of social constructivism. The complex mechanism based on narratization that moves the societies. Unfortunately, it is so much easier to mobilize people to destroy than to create something new and bette r. Brexit is just a recent proof of this failure of the human character so easily moldable by skillful myth-makers who know very well that most of the human beings would rather choose a promise of a false order over an adventurous change, although the change would bring progress. Among many truths the Brexit myth-makers haven’t shared with their followers is that the history is dead. We have reached a point where what we were or what we believe to know about the past has almost insignificant relevance for predicting the future. The E...