Fukushima

I was in the movies tonight, the huge screen 1. Ten or twelve people in a room for five hundred or a thousand. Premier area, something like business-class in a plain. I sat in the couch, took off my shoes, laid on it and enjoyed a minor, trivial, action movie while eating popcorn. I sometimes love doing that.

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Back home, I came across this interview on a Spanish, small, independent TV to Maria Teresa Bolea, former President of the Nuclear Security Bureau in Spain. As a good, ignorant Spaniard, "well-educated in the National glories" -as some, quite stupidly, wants the rest of the world to believe-, I never heard of her. I am such an ignorant.

Listening to the interview (which I strongly recommend you to watch it here), I draw my own, following conclusions:

1. Shame upon us!The general media has completely forgotten the humanitarian tragedy, the refugees, the evacuations, the human and tremendous material losses, the episodes of sorrow, stoicism and heroism; and about the better means and instruments of control to help. Apparently, there is something more important to do in Japan and Sendai now: smearing the nuclear power. Shame upon us!

2. Maria Teresa Bolea. What a woman! A Spaniard... World, look at her! Learn!... And she is not the only one, not at all.

3. For the serious mind, everyday should be a battle fought against mediocrity. Sometimes, manipulation is just that, gross manipulation; but in many other occasions, manipulation comes naturally: it is careless, effortless, brilliantless, dull, cloudy and grey. It is mediocrity... .

If we could only do one thing tomorrow: take a sample of 25 or 30 journalists writing these days on the fire in the nuclear reactor number 4 in Fukushima; journalists from the main written media and TV networks and ask them: the fire is because of the combustion of hydrogen but, can you tell me how exactly the hydrogen is formed? If you find a couple who know it, apart from vague and more or less approximate answers, I would be surprised... That's mediocrity: "Pssss. I mean... Is that so, so important?".

Information is overrated. Bad information is a bad cancer. Power belong to those who can think, freely, on good, complete data. Mediocrity makes our judgements partial and deficient, unremarkable, perishable.

Mediocrity makes us less human.

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