I can’t help being surprised because of the fact that, when talking to someone, right after criticizing the tv channels she/ he watches, his/ her preferred radio stations or newspaper most of the people take it personally. There must be a connection, an invisible link between their brains and their medias. Maybe after all they are connected in some way and that’s the logic answer for the survival of the whole system. Or maybe they just discovered that when you get married to something biased, when the only information you consider valid is that of a given party, you must protect it even if it’s a torture, even if directs its words against any logic you must protected it because, otherwise you shall be no one, you shall be nothing.
As I see it, it’s a fact that we love informative endogamy, we’re just great when it comes to closing the doors of the knowledge, wearing blinders as if we’re beast that need to see only in one direction, so that we only perceive the mandatorily correct path. I feel it every single day both in the left and the right, between the moderates and the radicals and also in those who say they don’t care about politics: now that we’ve got the freedom to think over virtually anything, we follow predefined scripts created by unknown writers

But let me tell you a secret: it has no sense.

Since it seems desperately stupid to support a football team or any other sport team or country only because you think it’s the best (as sooner or later it’ll be affected by crisis, which we won’t easily accept), to follow static, predefined politic ideas has no sense as sooner rather than later they’ll disappoint you: lots will corrupt, all will legislate against you, they’ll omit matters that you consider vital, they will create laws that’ll harm you and you’ll think : I’m not voting for them again ever. But you’ll think it only for a second, as the fear to be yourself will make you keep voting for them all along your life.

And if you don’t believe me (I wouldn’t!) just try it. For instance (I’ll use the democratic party as it’s the one in power, but you can substitute it with any other party), when the democrats legislate against public interest and freedom talk about it with one of they supporters that is aware of social matters; in my case I’ve found them skirting the question or resignations (’nobody’s perfect’). But of course nobody’s perfect, although having said so when they’ve created a whole legislation against your interests isn’t making a mistake but following the arranged plan. I can count the people I’ve known that have changed their vote for a similar matter on the fingers of one hand; the others, the majority of us, prefer to follow a predefined path: they will never ever change the party they vote, they’ll deny they’ve been let down, that those who have biased ideas are doomed to ruin and that what we watch, read and listen is the opium of an absent spirit.

Nevertheless, despite the difficulties there’s always somebody that prevails. Today I’d like to use this humble pulpit to support Pablo Soto in a trial where there’s much more than money at stake. Where the freedom to create, innovate and build has been falsely accused with the only purpose of propaganda. It looks like the recording industry associations, warner, universal, emi and sony-bmg have invented a new term: inquisition 2. 0. For the good of mankind, society, the companies and the state let’s hope that logic will prevail.