I don't know why there has been such a stir. It's something that happens in all meteorite movies, aliens, and the whole cast of natural catastrophes. The planet goes to hell and then the president of the United States, lately a woman and black, appears on TV to put the scientific and technological elites in a bunker, with the aim that when everything happens, they repopulate the earth. Other times, as in Don't look up, they go by rocket to an exoplanet, which is what the acting vice president of the Government of Spain Yolanda Díaz was trying to say the other day and since then they do not stop bumping into her.

Apparently the technological elites "have a plan B based on fleeing the world to protect themselves and themselves, it is the world of rockets to escape the earth," he said, referring without quoting Douglas Rushkoff, author of The Survival of the Ririchest, who also clarified that those same rich people, in reality, "do not think about it seriously." or at least not as much as the vice-president of the Government.

The reason is that in Galicia we are already used to someone occasionally building a spaceship, like the retired Lucio Ballesteros, who went down in history for becoming one in a village in the Ribeira Sacra; but above all for the phrase he gave to Juan Tallón when he asked him if they laughed at him: "I always say that if the pitcher does not go to the source, it does not break."

"It's the world of the metaverse," Yolanda continued, thinking that she was naming escape plans, when it seemed more like the alternate universe in which Tamara Falcó did not marry Iñigo Onieva for a nanosecond.

Another escape plan is that of the "fortress mansions, for example in New Zealand," he said, naming the country with an emphasis that if he were to say it in the Galician Parliament he would have had to end the sentence with a: "Look how far the they went."

Setting up a bunker or assembling a diverse, plural, European, feminist, progressive and inclusive rocket was going to be very complicated for Yolanda Díaz. Especially for the labeling of a poster that recognizes all the linguistic diversity of our country.

Yolanda Díaz's speech does not allow us to glimpse what she wants others to do about it. Not even what she planned to do about it, beyond announcing that she would be pending in case Amancio Ortega gave him to quote 183 days on Mars. Rushkoff, for his part, says that he took away from the megarich the idea of the bunker, although I do not think they want to leave in the hands of the public administration the construction of anything, much less the selection of the elites that will repopulate the Earth. For the same reason as in Stephen King's The Dome, when an entire town is trapped under a giant transparent bubble, a neighbor suggests that it has been a government thing, and the protagonist responds very sure that it has not. "And why not?", "because it works".

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