I’m very happy today because I have managed to work a reference to Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity into the Introduction of my book. You’ll ask how Ukraine is relevant to a discussion of Spain’s literature of the crisis, but when there is a will, there is a way.
There is a generalized feeling that profound societal changes are occurring, and that feeling leads people to use the word “crisis” obsessively even in situations where it doesn’t really apply. I mean, how often did we hear about “the Ukraine crisis” when there was no crisis and, instead, there was a revolution and then a war?
And now it’s all about “the refugee crisis” which is a misleading term if there ever was one. A crisis is a short moment in time that has a definitive beginning and a specific ending. Is anybody envisioning an ending to the so-called refugee crisis? Obviously not. This isn’t a crisis, just like the “economic crisis of 2008-12” was not a crisis. These are transformations that are not going anywhere. It’s a new world that is in the process of getting born. And labor pains are not “a crisis.”
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