Psychologists say that writing helps clarify ideas. Put on paper what one reflects configures the thought and conclusions that, a priori, could not be contemplated. This exercise is useful, especially, in those matters that are entangled and accumulated so many approaches that threaten maze. The “affair” Karla Sofía Gascón, as a kind of contemporary dreyfus, condenser of the evils of our era, could be one of them. A threatening past that is stirred against the actress in the form of controversial tweet Human beings, their edges and contradictions) and the fury of cancellation, with its avant -garde exile form, moving away from the outlaw of spotlights, promotions and red carpets. Boom and fall without continuity solution.
To this modernity cocktail, one of those debates between eternal and classic is also added, which crosses generations and on which the consensus does not seem to unfold: the doubt about whether it is possible to separate the artist’s work. Delimit the behavior of the creator of its most human dimension. And, although the canon clearly assumes the distance between the two in universal geniuses such as Picasso, Hemingway or Neruda, the suspicion falls to the new cases. Returning to Gascón, the content of his messages, however reprehensible they were, should not affect the assessment of his interpretation in “Emilia Pérez.” If we really believe in freedom of expression, with the limit always of criminal law, respect for foreign statements is to defend arguments not only come out of established conventions, but directly generate repulsion.
In a mature society that exercise of exposing judgments or personal valuations without restrictions or obstacles should also be accompanied by individual responsibility. And it is precisely at that point that we approach one of the issues that best characterizes the digital environment that surrounds us, and sometimes even engulf, that of the word and the immediate image, the fifteen minutes of fame that already impaired Warhol, now just one click. A kind of compulsive and opinion exhibitionism turned into a disorder of an era to which, as a conclusion, it could be demanded more freedom, respect and coherence. And also, why not, a little mystery.
