Come in, ladies and gentlemen, to the show!
The dilemma of a magician who pulls rabbits out of a hat is the impossibility of returning them to the same hat without the trick being discovered in the process. To end the show, he then resorts to a distraction: he almost always makes use of a beautiful woman who, half-naked and to the beat of vibrant music, graciously grabs the animal and hides it behind the screen.
Author: Antonio Rodríguez Salvador | internet@granma.cu
april 7, 2022 11:04:28
The dilemma of a magician who pulls rabbits out of a hat is the impossibility of returning them to the same hat without the trick being discovered in the process. To end the show, he then resorts to a distraction: he almost always makes use of a beautiful woman who, half-naked and to the beat of vibrant music, graciously grabs the animal and hides it behind the screen.
The United States is a wizard at pulling rabbits (in this case, news) out of the media. For example, the war in Ukraine has served as a distraction so that, suddenly, we forget that its public debt already exceeds 30 trillion dollars (130 % of its GDP); that the inflation of its economy is the highest in the last 40 years (7.9 %), and that it has already reached one million deaths due to the COVID-19 (one sixth of the deaths in the world).
An important technique in illusionism is to organically get the viewer to look away at the right moment. Apart from the supposed massacres where the corpses smoke cigarettes in their shrouds; the victories of some Azov fleeing in disarray, or the destruction of Russian media, whose images are taken from video games; who knows if even the nonsense with which they make us laugh on social networks are not part of the same trick.
