In an extraordinary lecture that Bishop Erik Varden has given at the University of Navarra, he observed: "Today's self-perceived modern Catholics are often octogenarians and nonagenarians. To the young, the word 'modern' smells of mothballs." He was not exhaling a vent, but exemplifying the paradigm shift of our time. A healthy generational tension has perhaps always existed, but the unusual thing is that today's young people yearn for the old order, while the old-timers cling to their guitars.

The lecture, of course, is much deeper and you can see it on Youtube. Here we are left with the paradigm shift. Seen in Theology, it is also observed in all other fields, more horizontal. In politics, Professor Domingo Gonzalez explains it. If since the French Revolution, Europe was governed by sinestrism, that is, by gaining ideological ground on the left, with the emergence of new, even more left-wing movements that pushed the old left-wing parties to colonize the claudicating steppe of the right. This has changed and now a dextrogyrist trend is observed all over Europe (except in Spain?).

The same with humor. The carnival, if it does not want to become a postmodern Fiestas de Primavera, would have to take grade of the turn. The City Council of Torrevieja, to defend the transsexualized minors in their parade, has said that it is "criticism, satire, provocation, fun". No way.

It is quite the opposite: transsexuality is part of the body of state doctrine and is enshrined in law. How can it be satire? There is more carnival in the child shouting "Viva Franco" to Évole than in five hundred Pride Day-style parades. If it is pride, it cannot be transgression, nor vice versa.

José María Pemán, when the chirigotas of the time came to his house, asked them to sing him the secret coplas, not those of the Fiestas de Primavera, so official of the dominant ideology and speech politically correct of the time (which Pemán had contributed to forge). The writer knew that grace always swims against the current.

"Humor is written with an axe," said Manuel Crespo. I am no one to give advice to anyone. It's enough for me to make my readers smile a little sometimes. But here I leave it, in case anyone had not noticed what today is provocative, rebellious and dangerous.