BOOK PEOPLE / FREE PEOPLE
In April 2053, I met an unusual urban tribe in Madrid. The BOOK PEOPLE called them and they were recognized by a detail of their clothing: the white shirts with texts from famous books.
That was, I learned shortly after, his strategy to face humanity's growing detachment from printed text and the seductive effect exerted by screens of all kinds. For them, THE WORD (from the Latin "parable") kept its etymological root of "comparison" and the book that fixed them helped to distinguish the spurious from the genuine.
That is why the BOOK PEOPLE organized massive meetings, each one wearing the shirt with their favorite book, to vindicate the habit of reading in that unique way. With this they wanted to prevent humanity from ending up as a society of slaves, evenly disciplined by the media and social networks, equally fasting from critical awareness, equally oblivious to any intellectual concern; a society where reading might be an extravagance and, in extreme cases, to be accompanied by the treacherous act of thinking, the worst of crimes, as in the dystopia recreated by Ray Bradbury in “Fahrenheit 451”. Hence they preferred to call themselves the FREE PEOPLE .
As a devoted reader that I was, am and will be, I could not resist putting the then scarce resources of El Bazar del Temponauta in favor of such a noble cause.