For a long time, our great fear has not been death, but being replaced. Medicine, prevention, and causality have made dying almost dependent on us and our rulers. If we trip on the street and crack our skull, we look for and find those responsible. As if we had banished chance and accidentality from our existence. If we contract cancer, we review diet and lifestyle. Diagnoses, treatments, and exercise routines. Like dying à la carte, required throughout life to avoid carelessness and reach the last day healthy.
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On the contrary, we have not managed to encapsulate replacement. Quite the opposite. Many gender-based crimes obey terror, cruelty, and helplessness at being replaced. Not accepting that they do not want to continue with them and before the replacement of what they believed to be their own and unmovable, the massacre, the murder as something that can no longer be changed: a state without replacement. According to some, they are invading us to replace us at work, on the streets, our turn at the hospital, aid, bars, pools, and benches in the squares. Mosques for churches, burkas for bikinis, Chinese food delivery, and overcrowded classrooms. The poorest who arrive threaten the less poor: more hours, cheaper, more children.
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According to others, the rich also invade us and push us out. The language will be replaced by that of immigration, schedules and customs, crimes and glances. Technology accelerates time towards absolute replacement. A new order, a new world about which no one ever asks, and so those who are fear those who arrive, the old fear the young, those who have a position, a seat, a place in the company or in a line.
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We fear the machines that will replace our hands, feelings, and ideas. Drones will serve and kill us, while there are men who fear being replaced by women, women by trans people in feminist struggles and sports competitions, trans women who fear being erased from the map again. Countries for oligarchs, oligarchs for their heirs, heirs for shareholders, all players fearing their number on the bench. One has always occupied the place of another. We will end up being immortal, but we will not stop being replaced.
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