Friday, March 29

Savater and the leap of the tiger



In the year dedicated to the tiger in the Chinese calendar, the likeable San Sebastian philosopher Fernando Savater warns his many readers that he will try to live up to the celebration. And in order to meet this objective, he informs us that he has just published a book, Solo Integral, edited by Ariel, which includes a selection of his articles that have been published in the last six years and on this same page. In case we had forgotten its content, the author of Ethics for Amador gives us a brief list of the issues that have haunted him during that period of time. Topics, on the other hand, that we already knew from previous occasions. In the first of these “newest” he portrays the “reactionaries who, in idolatrous support of Sanchismo, prefer to minimize the obvious abuse of the linguistic rights of Catalan citizens who want to educate themselves and express themselves in Spanish.” The second appearance serves to criticize “the increasingly shameless political exhibitionism of ETA’s beneficiaries, who put a rueful face when they remember the crimes of the recent past, but decorate and profit without fuss”.

Finally, he is ironic with the processions called by the Hermanos del Zulo in Bilbao and other Basque towns. It is not necessary to investigate much in the analysis of the text to conclude that it refers to Otegi and the militants of Bildu. The philosopher is particularly irritated with the drift of events and seems obliged, as an intellectual, to oppose what is politically correct. He has every right to do so, but he did not like, among his regular readers, that he uses a Jules Renard quote to refer to public opinion as “that sticky and hairy mass.” The so-called Basque conflict (which was never a guerrilla, nor a popular front, but a terrorist organization with mafia fringes that killed from behind or with car bombs) poisoned all who came into contact with it to varying degrees of involvement. From the successive Spanish governments that attempted an impossible dialogue to the use of mercenaries and vigilante elements specialized in the “dirty war”.

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From the influential intervention of foreign governments to the movements of money in tax havens to buy weapons, even missiles in which a decoy had been placed to locate their whereabouts at the time. Unraveling that skein will take time and will give the San Sebastian philosopher the opportunity to sharpen his irony about the process (national but less) that is now beginning. And as the bullfighters say, it will provide us with “afternoons of glory.” What his readers do not know how to interpret is that final warning of “catching up” with the tiger on the Chinese calendar. A very beautiful animal that has given rise to extraordinary experiences. Many of us will have read as young the Italian Emilio Salgari’s novel about The Tigers of Mompracem. And to others the phrase will have made us reflect: “The hunter thinks one thing and the tiger thinks another.” Regarding what is known as the “leap of the tiger”, we all agree that the success of the operation depends fundamentally on the height of the closet.


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