-You consider yourself a pessimist, I have read there.
-Yes, yes, do you have to ask me today?
-How does a pessimist survive, in this moment we are in?
-You survive by being a pessimist. The one who doesn’t survive is the optimist, the one who believes that he is going to do well, and so he starts a business in December.
He stand 705 of the Blue Pavilion of the Book Fair resounds with laughter and applause, while the ingenuity of Alejandro Dolina follows its usual course. In this case, during a one-on-one talk, “on open radio,” with the journalist Victoria Ginzberg (deputy editor of PáginaI12) organized by the AM 750 and the October Group. “Likewise, the pessimist always has something of a fraud, he is saying ‘the worst always happens’, and from behind, he makes horns,” resolved the “Negro”, about one of the many topics he addressed, accompanying the evening of a Sunday rainy.
Among them, his look at social networks and technology, applied to the world of communication. “What difference is there between a streaming and the Radio Splendid announcer from 1964? … none, because they use the same language, a language that will never die,” he said, before a stand once again overflowing with attendees. “Regarding networks, I do not tenaciously refuse to use them. There are people who refuse to use any technological element, believing that it is a conspiracy against poetry, or against culture. For example, they don’t use the doorbell… they knock on the door, or throw bricks at the doors, because they say that otherwise they are conspiring against the result of their collection of poems (laughs). When I want to communicate with my relatives, or with my children, I write to them online, and I don’t feel like I’m betraying Edgar Allan Poe,” said the writer, musician and radio host, unleashing laughter among the audience.
“It is another thing when networks are put at the service of higher entities that manipulate you, and this is an interesting philosophical conversation (…) At this point, Not only do I not get along well with the networks, I do not get along well with any of the other forms of manipulation and servitude of the royal powers, ranging from journalism to the sale of certain objects. Nor am I going to staunchly oppose any effect produced by capitalism, only because in this way I am accepting manipulation (…) if you have a blender, you are not going to spend hours trying to squeeze a banana,” was another of the reflections with occurrence of driver Revenge will be Terriblea program that currently airs from Tuesday to Saturday, between 0 and 2, on AM 750. “Another thing that influences the relationship that one has with the networks is the verification of a very high percentage of cruel and disturbed people in the world (…) There must be some way to reject this cruelization of society, but it is difficult, because cruelty has not only gained space, but prestige and glamor. There are guys who take pleasure in being cruel (…) How do we get out of this? Well, let’s get closer, let’s look for the other, because cruelty begins when one sees the other as a competitor, and not as a brother, as a being to whom that can help you live. I think that’s the thing.”
Dolina also referred to the place her program occupies in the context of current radio, not so distant from when she started with Too late for tears, back in 1985. “When they came to get me from ‘El Mundo’, the radio was the same as now… there were no longer specific or thematic programs like on the old radio. Now there are only editorial and journalistic programs. What used to last five minutes, the newscast, now lasts 24 hours,” said El Negro. “Although out there, well, we continue doing things from that radio such as the presence of the public in the programs. We did not fully adapt to today’s way of doing radio, and we brought some things from old radio.”
The maker of Gray Angel Chronicles, also referred to working together with his children; to Jauretche, who became a Peronist because of him at the age of 20; and to the feat of women in Argentina, which he considered the most “revolutionary of these times.” Also, to the things that make him laugh. “Professional comedians don’t make me laugh (…) because what’s funny is the humor that appears as a condiment in a work that has another purpose, which is not to tell the hundred best jokes in the Spanish language,” he ironized. In a similar sense, and according to the context, Dolina mentioned his favorite writers (Borges, Cortázar, Marechal, Chesterton, Dostoevsky), and admitted a change in his reading habits. “He was more of a reader before than now, since I start books in the middle… I lack patience,” he laughed. “I read a lot, but it seems to me with less vocation than before. I remember entire afternoons at home that would have been very sad, but I had a book in my hand that I couldn’t put down like Crime and Punishment, and I didn’t care about anything other than finding out. Not today. Today, I read disorderly.”
-What do you read? (the journalist asked)
-Physics, because it has a lot of fantasy. It is even more fantastic than some art forms.
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