Red Door 33

The Appearance
of the Unpredictable
030
In Mexico there is a phenomenon that
can be summarized in Peso Pluma. The
intellectual world shrieked and society
mobilized. Our ignorance and our
devotion to drugs and money were laid
bare. My first impulse was to condemn...
the second, to listen to the songs and,
little by little, to understand the rivers from
which this boy drew water. He was born
in Jalisco, his maternal family comes from
Culiacán.
Then I remembered the first meetings of
poets and intellectuals in which I saw with
amazement the drugs. This guy openly
promotes narcoculture and consumption...
Is consuming them while reading
Baudelaire or E. M. Cioran different from
doing it while singing a corrido? Maybe
the body does not generate dependence
if they are used while reading philosophy
or poetry, but what kind of deals have
to happen to make the crystal more
affordable or to take a gram to the nose?
You know what the price is and how much
blood has to flow.
The cult to money and frivolity is an old
deal among the societies of capitalist
criminal consumption. What is curious
is that we find it unpredictable. We are
astonished that the majority of the world
chants this music. They refuse to look at
the plants they have painstakingly sown
and cultivated.
Peso Pluma reached the global number
one spot on Spotify. They have tried to
silence it: a boy from Coahuila committed
suicide because his stepfather would not
allow him to listen to corridos belicones
in this country of the disappeared, of
surgeries of buttocks and tits...
The main consumers of these operations
are the so-called buchonas, who are the
companions of the distributors... men
and women who had no choice but to
migrate “to the other side” or starve to
death. And how can the cartel owners not
become heroes if they have been the only
alternative to “get their families or entire
towns out of poverty”?