Buridan’s donkey went down in history because, standing between two bundles of hay, he starved to death as he did not know which of the two to choose. Something similar was about to happen in his adolescence to the New York philosopher Richard Rorty, a relativist, son of Trotskyist parents and vacationers in New Jersey. Rorty grew up thinking that decent people were Trotskyists and that good people would always be oppressed until capitalism was overcome. “When I was fifteen, I ran away from the bullies who regularly beat me up in the schoolyard, bullies who I assumed would somehow fade away with capitalism. From the age of twelve, Rorty already knew that the meaning of life was to fight against social injustice, and for that he had the Trotsky from his parents’ library. But he also had “private, fantastic, snobbish, and incommunicable interests,” and those interests were in the mountains of northwestern New Jersey, where “wild, noble, pure, chaste, American orchids” grew, far superior to tropical orchids. of florists. –By ‘reality’ I understood, more or less, those Wordsworthian moments in the Flarbrookville forest before the yellow ‘lady slipper’ orchids that made me feel touched by an inspiration, by something of ineffable importance. And the young Rorty decided to go to the University with the sole idea of finding the secret that would allow him to platonically fuse reality (looking at the orchids) and justice (ending the thugs) in a single image. He didn’t get it, and he decided to dedicate himself to philosophy, something that Vinicius should take into account, when they whisper to him to let him hit, that the important thing is to play. With the example of Rorty ahead, for the young Vinicius the schoolyard and his bullies is the Teban League, while the Champions League would be his Flarbrookville forest full of wild orchids, his true world, apart from the World Cup with Brazil in Qatar , a school of football values in the desert that those most interested can enjoy in the documentary that Netflix has released about the FIFA gang. We came from a Monday night in Vallecas with Vinicius, where, told by Hughes, «a new defensive resource with total arbitration permissiveness was rehearsed: Balliu, outmatched, hit him with a cate from behind and two hands that knocked him down, rolling down the band ; They still asked for a yellow card for the Brazilian, who shortly after, in a two against one, they pulled the rectangle with a push (from Isi, in the help) like someone throwing out a too funny stranger from the town bar ». -It is difficult to stop players like Vinicius, you had to look for those little tricks… He was trying to go strong, mark territory and that he also had the Brazilian list in his head… -explained Balliu, new media hero, because the press welcomed with laughter … “his touch of cymbals” in the ears of the Brazilian. And on Thursday night we went to the Bernabéu as if to bid farewell, against Cádiz, to the madridistas in the World Cup, with which the thing had something of a farewell to the fifth, which is all the glamor of the Tebas League. The fifth Zamoranos of Manganeses de la Polvorosa were famous for their tradition of throwing a goat from the top of the bell tower of the town’s church. The militroncha fun in the Theban League is to push Vinicius off the field, “like someone throwing out a too funny stranger from the town bar.” Or like someone who throws the goat from the bell tower. If the ‘foreigner’ complains, a card and a provocative label. Vinicius receives, but protests. Rodrygo receives (Reinildo, Fali), but it is better to agree: –Rodrygo is a gentleman. Vinicius, on the other hand… –said Fali, after baiting Rodrygo in the face of arbitration complacency (card to Vinicius, for denouncing) and television censorship. (“In the end it is true that I do hit him. I try to stop him and try to grab him. In this action I may have gone a little too far. The truth is that I hit him a lot. It is not to hurt him”). The Story imposes the New Virility: the important thing is no longer the Champions of Ceferino, but the League of Thebes, with its seny (Gavi and Pedri) and its rauxa (Isi and Fali). We protect Modesto Football: «We cannot play with tails. Against Vinicius you have to make aggressive fouls »(Sergio Rodríguez, Cádiz coach). Art was only a parenthesis (Messi’s). But my only, and last, hold on football is the joy and health of the Vinicius of wild orchids.
