10 In times uncertain in every aspect, the promise of impossible certainties becomes a blinding and addictive opiate. Certainties that function as temporary refuges from a world that is increasingly difficult to digest. But the temporality of these certainties is more ephemeral than ever, laying bare their lack of real substance. They are pseudo-certainties thrust upon us through information overload and technological algorithms, which transform any legitimate concern into an avalanche of easy, conclusive, and reassuring answers. Answers that offer instant comfort, but which then leave a deep void, an absence of meaning that seeks only to be filled with more immediate stimuli, with extreme dogmatism, with simplistic and salvific narratives, with trap-like refuges that promise protection while imprisoning us in a desperate meaninglessness, hunting noise, excess, and emptiness.

]]> The main reference point for annual economic reports on the Spanish economy is the Bank of Spain. What is less well known is that the first Annual Report wasn't published until 1962, thirty-two years after the creation of its Research Department in 1930. In the case of the Balearic Islands, the figure of Miquel Alenyà Fuster cannot be overlooked if one wishes to provide, even briefly, a concise outline of the origins of annual economic reports. In his memoirs From my memory: 1939-2017' (Ed. Lleonard Muntaner. Palma, 2017) comments on the beginnings of the 'Economic and social report"In February 1969, Carles Blanes Nouvilas, then general manager of Sa Nostra for a year, (...) commissioned the writing of the four chapters that made up the first edition of the report mentioned in 1968. The economist Pere Costa Porto was in charge of the chapter on trade and the trade balance, Casasnovas wrote the one on tourism, and I wrote the one on industry. Under the direction of Miquel Alenyà, the annual economic reports for the Balearic Islands continued until 2000, since from 2001 onwards Sa Nostra began l'Report from the Center for Economic Research (CRE), which breaks radically with the trajectory of previous reports, since: "(...) The quality of the reports gradually declines (...) From the outset, the entire previous team, its experience, and the values associated with a 33-year trajectory of continuous, prestigious, and consistently pluralistic public work are dispensed with. The model shifts from authors who sign the chapters of the report to a model of a single author and responsibility (...) On November 9, 2012, the last actions of the CRE are carried out, and on Monday, November 19, 2012, the termination of the agreement with the UIB by Sa Nostra is made public through a press release (178-179).

]]> If you conduct a survey and ask how important music is to citizens, you will probably receive passionate responses and end up with the general impression that music is very important to many people. In fact, some will assure you that music accompanies them all day long, and others will tell you directly that they could not live without it. Money is invested by these same people in a cultural asset that is so important to them, whether in physical or digital format, concert tickets, or a subscription to some social media service. streaming, you'll probably pick up a fair number of uncomfortable expressions like 'ehhhh', 'uhhhh' and even the occasional 'ahhhh'.

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