{"id":58949,"date":"2025-03-12T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58949"},"modified":"2025-03-13T23:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T22:32:05","slug":"the-pp-and-the-response-of-a-lonely-bird-sitting-on-the-pallid-bust-of-pallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/03\/12\/the-pp-and-the-response-of-a-lonely-bird-sitting-on-the-pallid-bust-of-pallas\/","title":{"rendered":"The PP and the response of a lonely bird sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hace cuatro a\u00f1os que descubr\u00ed esta bonita fotograf\u00eda de Anthony Tori. Su autor la tom\u00f3 en Islandia el 5 de agosto de 2016.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/04\/the-great-electoral-promise-broken-by-feijoo-who-now-says-that-what-i-say-i-do\/\">The great electoral promise broken by Feij\u00f3o, who now says that \u201cwhat I say, I do\u201d<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/19\/feijoos-praise-for-the-junts-separatists-and-what-he-said-about-them-a-few-months-ago\/\">Feij\u00f3o's praise for the Junts separatists and what he said about them a few months ago<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>I've used this image, published on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/es\/fotos\/hombre-sentado-en-la-cima-de-la-montana-9qYKMbBCFjc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unsplash<\/a>, to illustrate a few articles. Specifically, those that reminded me of <strong>a quote from Cyrano de Bergerac that I've always kept in mind on this blog: <em>\"possibly not flying very high, but alone.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are people who seem unable to understand why others of us have no desire to <strong>renounce our principles to take shelter under some tree<\/strong> whose shade might be beneficial to us. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/17\/principles-versus-fashions-the-lesson-offered-by-a-man-who-folded-his-arms\/\">As I mentioned here two years ago<\/a>, <strong>gregariousness<\/strong>, the human tendency to group together with others, <strong>has its advantages as well as its disadvantages<\/strong>. I think most people tend to focus primarily on the advantages. I'm one of those rare types who focuses on the disadvantages, especially because of my experience in politics.<\/p>\n<p>All this nonsense I'm telling you has to do with a news story published yesterday by Abc: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/8azU1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>\"The PP launches into Vox's anti-Trump vote to regain ground\"<\/em><\/a>. I confess that this news made me laugh, because besides being a lonely guy, <strong>the big problem I have with politicians is my good memory<\/strong>. Every time I hear the name of the Popular Party, the year 2009 jumps into my memories: it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/04\/the-great-electoral-promise-broken-by-feijoo-who-now-says-that-what-i-say-i-do\/\">when Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o confirmed the deception to the Galicians who voted for him<\/a> with his promise of \"linguistic freedom.\"<\/p>\n<p>It's not my favorite bird (I like sparrows better), but <strong>every time someone suggests I vote for the PP again, I become like the raven in Edgar Allan Poe's poem<\/strong>, who, sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas, repeated a single word: \"Nevermore\".<\/p>\n<p>It's the expression that comes from my soul when someone suggests <strong>that I risk being deceived again<\/strong>, that I offer my trust to a party that has been throwing its principles overboard, <strong>adopting the ideological theses of the left on issues such as abortion, gender ideology<\/strong>, social democratic economic recipes or climate catastrophism. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/01\/19\/no-hay-espacio-a-la-derecha-de-quienes-firman-acuerdos-con-el-comunismo-chino\/\">A PP that has been flirting with the Chinese Communist Party for years<\/a>, the sole party of the largest dictatorship in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nevermore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/9qYKMbBCFjc\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">Anthony Tori<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hace cuatro a\u00f1os que descubr\u00ed esta bonita fotograf\u00eda de Anthony Tori. 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