Essay on Blindness

In an unspecified country, an electoral process is unfolding with complete normality. At the end of the day, after the votes are counted, it is found that in the capital, approximately 70% of voters cast blank ballots. When the elections are repeated the following Sunday, the number of blank votes exceeds 80%.

Fearful and suspicious, the government, instead of questioning the reasons why voters would cast blank ballots, decides to launch a vast police operation to discover the infectious source that is undermining its political base and eliminate it. And this is how a process of violent rupture unfolds between the political power and the people, whose interests the former is supposed to serve and not confront.