centrologia 53
CENTROLOGIA error by CENTROLOGIA, a term used by Spanish political commentator Ignacio Varela in El Confidencial, in the wake of the 2019 Spanish elections. Formerly centrology was related to the concept that the Earth was the center of the Universe (or the Sun, failing that). But as a neologism it refers to the integration of centrism into political discourse. Varela affirms that everyone longs to be in the center but that this immaterial and dynamic point fluctuates permanently according to the conjuncture and each one places it in a different place. The bottom line is that politicians, the more lost or confused, the more they mention center or centrism.