The former and the current president represent our desire for happiness

I think about “achieving the goal,” about reaching the desired object, and about how psychoanalysis suggests that this is never complete — which is not necessarily bad. But. I also think that Lula and Bolsonaro are tangential realizations, close to the idea of something. And what is the idea?

My intuition says that, deep down, sometimes too deep down and uselessly so, in general, all of us want to be happy. Politics, as an effect of culture, has the clear usefulness of protecting us from the forces of nature: hurricanes, floods, the aridity of hunger. Did it go beyond that?

The most curious part, the “farce” that follows the “tragedy,” is that incest, cannibalism and homicide should not even be under debate outside each person’s primitive heads, treated with the refinements of technologies in psychology. But one politician eats the other, and so it goes.

In recent years, we have lived the inflation of artificial cultures: “sertanejo, that abject thing” (sertanejo is Brazilian country music), as researcher Bruno Nichols defines it, left and right, progressive or conservative. Nonsense! The purest nonsense!

One of the most natural, wise and intelligent types is always the pacifist. It is in the guy “on the fence” that the future is built. It is from the one who “cultivates his own lavender,” as Professor Stella Siqueira Campos writes, that there will be a tomorrow. And there will be a tomorrow after October, again, and again.