In a display of concepts that border on the absurd for legislative work, Paulón's project defends pogo as a “manifestation of participation, celebration, and belonging”. The deputy even justifies his delirium by citing that, although the word does not exist in the Royal Spanish Academy, it does appear in the Latin American Dictionary of the Spanish Language from UNTREF, where it is defined as a “ritual and collective dance based on jumps, pushes, and collisions”.
For the socialist deputy, this administrative and symbolic expenditure is essential. According to statements made to Perfil, Paulón stated: "The death of Indio Solari highlighted the magnitude of a cultural expression that marked several generations of Argentines. Many of us grew up with his music as the soundtrack of our lives, and around it, a collective identity was built, the ricotera culture, which deserves to be recognized. With this project, we seek to highlight that legacy and also reclaim pogo as a popular and community expression that is part of Argentine culture".
If this law is approved, the national calendar would add a new day of "commemoration" that, far from solving the underlying problems of Argentines, seems designed to satisfy the ideological nostalgia of a left that prefers to legislate on pushes at a concert rather than on freedom and progress. While Solari's family requested that the music continue to play after closing the wake on Monday morning, politics rushes to turn popular sentiment into a new line item in the state budget.
