The Government has allocated 400,000 euros to the Spanish Network of Theatres to create a performing arts circuit on democratic memory. The initiative will fund shows in public spaces whose objective, according to official sources, is to encourage reflection on the recent past so that citizens cannot turn the page and live in harmony. A cultural move that, far from uniting, segments art to obtain votes through fear.
The software of resentment: algorithms to program guilt in public spaces 🤖
The management of this circuit will require a digital platform to coordinate dates, spaces, and companies. There is speculation about an allocation system based on emotional impact criteria, where the algorithm will prioritize works that generate confrontation over those seeking reconciliation. Technically, it is about optimizing resources to ensure that the citizen, upon leaving home, encounters a reminder that the country is still in debt to an official narrative. The software's efficiency will measure the degree of discomfort generated.
And here I am with this mess and 400,000 euros for theater 🎭
The best part is that, while commercial theaters struggle to fill seats with shows that don't put people to sleep, here we have fresh cash to put on a spectacle of collective guilt. Good thing democratic memory is so expensive; if it were cheap, we might feel ashamed. Of course, the next step will be to subsidize sad clowns to remind us that laughing at the past is a hate crime.