‘Survivors’ and general ignorance | TV

Mars is a satellite of the Earth, England, the capital of the United States and the myth of the Cavern, a thing by Juan Talavera. They are not school occurrences like that of “cold/heat, high/low, Day/Carrefour”, they are responses from contestants of survivors in tests of general knowledge.

We are free to spoil ourselves, they are not ignorant because they cannot access adequate training, but because that training is crazy. Give me bread and tell me fool. It is also lawful to be indignant about the price of that bread, but Telecinco is a private channel and you can choose what you spend your gold on. While Antena 3 pampers the contests that reward knowledge, they bet on the apology of ignorance.

This year a contestant not only doesn’t know who Laika is, he also gets upset at the difficulty of the question. The same fate befell Teresa of Calcutta. Years ago she was confused with Vice President María Teresa Fernández de la Vega in Nobody is perfect, a summer format that pitted “smart” against “handsome” and had a single season, enough to plant the seed of tronism and win the award for the most geek program. For the audience, the prize was to observe beings successfully function without knowing how to multiply by one.

That the handsome ones have it easier, he told it better than anyone 30 Rock con Jon Hamm farfullando without anyone daring to tell him that he did not speak French. “Outer beauty is nothing more than the charm of an instant”, wrote George Sand, but let’s see who wants to deny that instant.

This week one of the tests allowed survivors retrieve rags from their suitcases. They were vigorously applied. Susanita already told Mafalda: “You can go out without culture, but try going out without a dress.” In the end they will be the smartest.

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