As Catalonia vies for independence, we decode the situation of F.C. Barcelona, Catalan referendum and what it means to be more than just a football team.
Humans… In the grand scheme of things, we have been on this Earth for barely five minutes of all known existence for this little blue orb we call home. In these five minutes, we have declared ourselves the most superior species on Earth, conquered all land available and explored what we believe to be the deepest depths of this planet’s oceans. In these five minutes, mankind has had two World Wars, and today the threat of nuclear winter in permanence hangs over us like the Scepter of Death itself. As we hold onto the last strings of humanity – what makes us so powerful is also what inevitably divides us – our identity.
On Earth, we are all born equal. Equal opportunity presents itself to us but as life wears on we are segregated into regimes and into tribes without our consent. And these labels are our identity – scars and souvenirs we carry along on the journey that we call life. We pledge allegiance to a God we cannot see, to a language we did not create and sometimes to a football club whose ideas we cannot fully comprehend. Mankind creates these regimes so a select few can rule over the rest of us. And from resisting or going along with these regimes are identities formed.
