Economic guru Simón in free fall: addiction and spectacle online
Economic guru Simón de la Nava appears in a video in critical condition from drug use. After years of preaching easy money, his fall reopens the debate.
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Economic guru Simón in free fall: addiction and spectacle online
A video circulating since the weekend shows Simón de la Nava – known in the world of 'heterodox' economics as 'El Maestro' – in a state of extreme intoxication. The recording, already spreading on Twitter and other platforms, has unleashed a mix of disbelief, mockery and alarm among those who trinc him in his years of popularising interest rates and monetary theory.
From economics lesson to live overdose
Simón went from analysing the credit cycle and criticising central banks to starring in streams where he is seen consuming drugs until he loses consciousness. The evolution is so abrupt that several internet users ask how one goes from the 'fixed rate' video to this. Sources close to him indicate he had already been admitted to a psychiatric hospital, which he left early. Now, the debate swings between those calling for an involuntary admission and those who see it as just another spectacle of human misery in the digital age.
The business of others' suffering
What some call 'humiliation' recalls the old televised drunken binges, but now it is rawer and monetised. While his condition worsens – there is talk of months to live – some encourage him to 'keep going' and others raise funds for his rehabilitation. The paradox is that this trinc of radical liberalism has become the best visual argument that liberalism can also kill.
The video is the most visible symptom of a problem that transcends the individual: the lack of a mental health safety net when a public figure collapses, and the complicity of an audience that turns tragedy into entertainment. Meanwhile, Simón is still live.
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A video circulating since the weekend shows Simón de la Nava – known in the world of 'heterodox' economics as 'El Maestro' – in a state of extreme intoxication. The recording, already spreading on Twitter and other platforms, has unleashed a mix of disbelief, mockery and alarm among those who trinc him in his years of popularising interest rates and monetary theory.
From economics lesson to live overdose
Simón went from analysing the credit cycle and criticising central banks to starring in streams where he is seen consuming drugs until he loses consciousness. The evolution is so abrupt that several internet users ask how one goes from the 'fixed rate' video to this. Sources close to him indicate he had already been admitted to a psychiatric hospital, which he left early. Now, the debate swings between those calling for an involuntary admission and those who see it as just another spectacle of human misery in the digital age.
The business of others' suffering
What some call 'humiliation' recalls the old televised drunken binges, but now it is rawer and monetised. While his condition worsens – there is talk of months to live – some encourage him to 'keep going' and others raise funds for his rehabilitation. The paradox is that this trinc of radical liberalism has become the best visual argument that liberalism can also kill.
The video is the most visible symptom of a problem that transcends the individual: the lack of a mental health safety net when a public figure collapses, and the complicity of an audience that turns tragedy into entertainment. Meanwhile, Simón is still live.
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