I would really love to get one of those glasses of the main character of Carpenter’s They Live. These glasses allow John Nada to see the naked ideological reality behind everyday objects. A dollar bill displays the words “This is your god”, while a billboard advertising “Sales” hides the true message on it, “Obey”.

I need those glasses. Living abroad and trying to update my personal “reality” over Spain has transformed me into a heavily dependent user of mass media.
This individual “reality” becomes a direct product of power discourse just as anyone else’s perception of the country in Spain, but perhaps in a more harsh way.
I find that the national political debate conducted by media and political groups is mainly focused on separatist or nationalistic issues: more decentralization, normalization of minority languages…

Measures to solve an economic crisis that has raised unemployment rates to the highest percentage in 13 years? 85% of the members of the parliament agree on them.
In the post-ideological scenario of today’s Spanish politic discourses, the disagreement is definitely not in the political economy, stupid!
The power discourses (I use power here in a holistic term covering church, trade unions, media, political apparatus, think tanks…) focuses the discussion in aspects where “we, the people”, in a Rousseaunian way, are allowed to say something, to change something, to think about!