Joglars - The Marvels' Tapestry

THE ALTARPIECE OF WONDERS Contemporary variations on a theme by Cervantes

This era of mobile phones and artificial intelligence tends to foster in many people a sense of superiority that prevents them from accepting and understanding how minimal the difference is that separates us from our classics. In this sense, the situations presented by Cervantes in his interlude The Altar of Wonders continue to occur today and are even multiplying with even more extreme and grotesque versions.

The great expansion of the written, visual, and sound media of our time is the most effective platform for rascals, fraudsters, and scoundrels of all kinds and conditions to roam freely disguised as gurus of society. From the key positions they occupy in politics, finance, and culture, they can sell us altarpieces of nothing at the expense of people's fear of being seen as fools or fascists. No one listens anymore to the children who warn us that the king is naked. Perhaps because children today are very domesticated, artists are clinging to public money, and philosophers act as tutors of the system.