There's a message running like wild fire the last few days in Twitter, recruiting virgins to offer themselves as sacrifice to the market!! After the initial impact of a giggle, the smile began to fade and twisted into a sad face of clown. Because, despite centuries of civilization, we can't help but feel hopelessly impotent, ignorant and incapable of foretelling the future, like those in the ancient time who even sacrificed their own daughters to pacify the Gods. (And why always have to be a female and virgin?)
In both cases, it's a matter of a group of humans that, desperate after long periods of disgrace and zero efficiency of petitions and prayers, began to detach and unfasten themselves from their most loved ones, in the belief that the Superior Being - whom nobody had ever seen but some seem to know their tastes for virgins; try to appease, placate and satisfy, so as to rid themselves of the bitterness of life. A lamb here, a virgin there ... Or, like now, in our time of crisis, the labour reform, mass cut-back, closing of schools, those that are open but with one hour less of lecture; some pharmacies and hospitals too as happening in Spain ...
Only the perspectives of history told us how pointless and salvage the sacrifices in the past were. In the same way, only time will prove or condemn the spiral of political and social renounces in which Europe is deeply submerged; with the only usual winners being those magicians of financial wizards, and the intermediaries, taking their profitable turns.
