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The Religious Mantis

The Football World Cup just happened, the world looked like a jungle to me. My imagination runs from head to toe. Here's what the trees in South Africa have given me:

- I wanted the South African team to win. He can't win, the Ivory Coast. Last minute Ghana. The Africans couldn't win, so I ate my mind.

- The way I look at the African team players behind the ball during the tiger hunt. Spear in your hands, free. From the bases. Free from strategies and tactics – more free than adversaries – in the present.

- Football once moved from Europe (islands) to Africa, where the game was brutal and direct. The African players who have arrived in Europe are, unfortunately, vandalizing – they have vandalized – inexorably and softly.

- When I saw the final between the Dutch and the Spanish, I was struck by the equivalent of the football system and the democracy system: if there are laws in both, the question – the problem – is how – and then – the laws are applied.

Football and democracy are not equal. If they are suitable, the first one should work the vertical game, while the second one should work the horizontal game. To my liking, it's obvious.

- Since in democracy the vertical game is dominant, the dominant game of the strong prevails. In football, on the other hand, if the game is to be free – returning to the origin of the islands – the game must be vertical.

- Western democracy as well as halatsu football. According to the interests of the powerful: the vindicated.

Like football in cities. Or the halatsu. When the Spaniards took over the Germans, it is said that in the center of Hernani – not in the neighborhoods – they threw out the Etxafuegos. I mean Hernanin, not Irun. After the Spaniards overpowered the Dutch, rockets were also launched in Hendaye. What we had long felt was fulfilled: Spain is also present in Hendaye.

- It has been centuries since the Dutch – who later colonized South Africa – liberated themselves from the Spanish dependency, and years –50. In the coming year, Côte d’Ivoire has also been liberated from the tyranny of the French, as well as from the oppression of Britain’s Ghana. The latter are still subject to the vertical play of European democracy.

- The Basques also depend on the vertical play of Spanish and French democracy. We are forgetting to play the vertical game of football – straight and free – on the islands. We've almost been assimilated!

- As I walk from cup to cup, etc., wanting to be a squirrel, I have the impression that democracy and football - it is a male democracy, a female football - form a unique amnesic cocktail. Drink from the cup and click! It's just delicious. Mantis makes us religious. But as he fucks us, he eats our heads.

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