Cockroaches are also resilient, but who wants to live like this

The Resilience Secretariat lasted no more than 24 hours. The incredible thing is that the delusional idea has even been published in the Official Gazette. It would be enough to solve the problems that afflict us so that the need for resilience of Argentines would be noticeably reduced. That a Temporary Special Execution Unit called “Resiliencia Argentina” was designed in which money was going to be spent to increase “social self-esteem”, sounds minimal as a tease and maximum as an unthinkable escalation of the most manifest psychopathy as a way of governing.

First, the idea comes to them in the midst of a huge economic crisis in which despite malaria they continue to enlarge the state. Within hours of the slap with the creation of 200 positions in the PAMI, with people who do not know what they will do and who do not even meet the requirement of having a full secondary school, the news of the resilience office was full cardboard.

To be resilient is to have the ability to endure shock or recover from misfortune. The truth is that it takes a lot of resilience to endure so much disability. Cockroaches are an insect with remarkable evolutionary resilience, for example. But who wants to live like this. Thank you, but I'll pass. I mean, those who should prevent us from having to develop so much resilience are those who come with cynicism to offer recipes to solve it.

The proposal was born, apparently, to “seek to improve the quality of life of citizens” due to the effects of the pandemic. For example, some ideas that could have been preventive: not decree an eternal quarantine that melted thousands of people, not stealing vaccines and not having parties in Olivos when people couldn't fire their dead and they were locked up and isolated. The need for resistance to stress on the part of the population and ergo, their quality of life would have suffered much less. Resilient, to things.

On the other hand, those emotional abilities that adversities leave in life, develop in the personal universe. It is symptomatic of the state interventionist tendency, which they think they can get in there too. Either the underestimation of people reaches serious levels or they already run out of resources to justify non-existent expenditures in the budget, or after a while they also get into people's beds to solve their sexual problems. An elephantiasic state that does not do the basics and that confuses size with quality, obstructs, suffocates and squeezes Argentines. Because where do they think silver comes from. If you want resilience, look for it in the pockets of an impoverished population and you will find it.

What if they tried to lower inflation, reduce the state of superfluous expenditures, improve security and education. It would be enough for them to stop producing the crisis, cultivating decay, protecting criminals, and multiplying the poor, so that resilience is not necessary. But no. The authors of the condition propose to help you cope with it. Without ironies, all the energy that goes into resilience in our country, if they unloaded our backpack, could perhaps be devoted to productive and personal projects, which would undoubtedly result more in general happiness. The search for happiness, that inalienable right, make it so complicated that it only remains to help you endure.

It would be enough to ask any neighbor in the suburban area if he needs resilience to go out on the street or it would be better for him to have peace of mind that he does not steal as soon as he shows his nose on the sidewalk. It would be enough for them to stop taking half of what any product costs you in taxes so that it is not necessary to put up with the shock of not getting money at the end of the month or the feeling that they take what is yours and you earned by working. The vampire offers you blood transfusions to return for your jugular at night.

The outdated proposal seems to have come from an idea presented to the president by the teacher and psychologist Fernando Melillo, as he himself said, when he was preparing to take office, with an office and everything, within the structure of the Headquarters of Ministers. According to Melillo, cultivating “collective resilience” was going to help “build an Argentina for all”. In 2008 Melillo had to explain that he was not a “Borocotó”, when he left the ranks of Elisa Carrió's ARI to switch to Kirchnerism. A resilient.

When you go over the sequence of events, you wonder how the president makes decisions. One of these days someone can propose out of nowhere to create the Secretary for Reconciliation with the Delinquent to steal from you but ask for your forgiveness, and the guy does. In total, to justify rapists there is already the Ministry of Women's Affairs. It is really worth the irony because they took so much to heart that merit is not necessary, that they crown uselessness by creating bureaucracy and confessing that they do it for nothing.

When the news broke it seemed loaded, joking, or outright provocation. An excellent idea for a Capuzzoto sketch, the outdated delirium of a cynic or the atrocious hypocrisy that could be found in the pages of George Orwell. Big brother takes care of you, controls you and helps you endure his siege.

In the evening, the communiqué of the Chief of Staff headed by Juan Manzur spared the grandiloquence: “It has been decided to withdraw the Special Temporary Executive Unit Resiliencia Argentina”.

The full episode refers to that literary classic of psychological manipulation from power, called A Happy World. Apparently, for our rulers, as Aldous Huxley postulates, “True happiness really looks scrawny compared to the great compensations of misery. And of course, stability is nowhere near as spectacular as instability. And being happy obviously doesn't have the glamour of a good fight against misfortune.”

To be resilient, the world is ending, comrades. With this, even resilience was spent boys. Not to mention looking for a mango in the Central Bank.