Children who should be at school, in a park or on the run after a soccer ball. Children recording summers on their retinas, bathing in the pool at night. Children while their ice cream drains. Others who gyrate. Children who run, who don't stand still, who don't shut up even under water. “And why, dad? And why, Dad? My little brothers a few years ago. Boys who have not yet even crossed their minds that one day they will have to grow up. Creatures that play at being adults because they believe that growing up consists of rolling paper cigarettes or getting tattoos of those who came in the bags of potatoes. Children who say "asshole" very low and scandalized as if the police were going to stop them. More children learning to sing to Perales: “Let the children sing, let them raise their voices…”. Raptors who don't want to go to bed. "A while longer, please, it's summer." A nutella sandwich, a sandwich or a slice of watermelon. Ice cream to the cut, between two waffles... What it touches because the important thing is to run back to the water, to the game, wherever. A scramble of kids up the street, nights playing hide-and-seek, distant echoes of happy summers. Ours also when from June to September there was an eternity and not these three long afternoons that separate them now. lacerated knees. Sorolla's Painting Children, Progress consists of that: having conquered levels of civilization and well-being that were unthinkable just two centuries ago. In which children can be children. That they don't have to work to bring food home or even to survive. That they are not forced to sew balls in some basement in Bangladesh. That they only think about the few responsibilities that correspond to them rather than the adult assignments they want to use for their shenanigans. Not like these children who now speak at the UN about climate change and give speeches written by others. Little different from those who sew balls. Children as labor, some sewing and others removing feelings. "Pedofrastia" is the word, Jep tells me. The strategy of using children in a debate to move the audience. Greta Thunberg and more and more. The height of this infantilized society, which is noisily reaching its zenith, is putting children to act as adults.
