Those
of us in theatre always end up discovering a more imaginative reality
which by far exceeds any fable we could have invented, however delirious
it may have seemed.
It
could be that M-7 Catalonia doesn't completely belong
to the world of fiction, as present conditions show favourable signs
of reality leading to the same situation.
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Science is the new 'totem' of today.
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The elderly, who don't fit into these new ways of life, pose an
irritating nuisance.
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We have turned into the 'porters' of the Mediterranean destined
to protect and entertain the summer residences of barbarians, installed
around a sea which seems more and more like a public sanatorium.
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They dazzle us and give us even more complexes with their progress,
technology, science, philosophers, economists, politicians.
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We, on the other hand, are branded with the label of being exotic,
folksy and our 'peculiar customs' become less and less peculiar
and more and more like souvenirs.
Therefore, Dr. Noguera Grau (XI 7781 B) and Dr. Plana River
(BL 5432) already have a good deal of the elements needed to
bring their investigation to an end and display their theories in the
conference-protest on sector 7 of the Mediterranean,
which, with the exception of 4 elders, is nearly extinct.
The
perfect, programmed and prophylactic society needs our things (those
which had belonged to us) so that they can 'play' in their 'areas of
social entertainment' reproducing those very impractical and irrational
ways of life.
There's
no need to worry, they haven't lost their heads. This is simply
a new therapy for social equilibrium. Some centuries earlier
Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, set
off the experience by constructing a mini-village for herself which
began in the gardens of Verseilles, her aim being to play at 'peasants'
with her courtesans. According to Dr. Plana River's theory
this could be a 'naturist psychiatric self-treatment'
this time, however, with the difference that the experiment doesn't
wish to be so class conscious, clearly directed at all citizens without
discrimination, as specified in the Wallace Müller report
and of course with the strict condition that the practice would only
be limited to the sectors of 'Recreation and Social Entertainment'.
Albert
Boadella