Effort to improve humanity

 Effort to improve humanity

Said a Portuguese colleague by birth and Brazilian by adoption, a migrant and descendant of the saga of the greatest ocean navigators of the century of the expansion of the frontiers and limits of European civilization, so I liked to make irony, perhaps not original, but it was from him the first time I heard the brocade, or the hai kai, or the proverb that says: Faith is the weakness of heroes.

The success of the male gender in all spheres of civilization has been turned into toxic machismo and feminist oppression; what the Portuguese meant is that every time someone wanted to improve humanity, it was the beginning of the greatest tragedies for civilization.

Jesus Christ, the historical figure, ended up in wars, oppression, Holy Inquisition, Crusades, fanaticisms, thousands of sects after the creation of Christianity which he did not even directly witness or take part in, nor was he aware of it, it was spread to the four corners of the world and now after clashing with the Muslims, it is now anathema to the Marxist critics who have defined it as the opium of the desperate and poor in spirit.

Another savior from the humiliation of a nation defeated in the First World War, made circumstantial and conjunctural history find a former soldier and mediocre plastic artist, very good at oratory and collective empathy, the hero who rescued the pride and economy of a nation that almost conquered the world, with a military force and a technology of another level, gave Germany a privileged place even dragging upon itself the greatest of all humanitarian tragedies, choosing genocide as an argument to forge the ideological cohesion of a nation leading to nationalist ecstasy during six years of glory in the arms of their bloodthirsty leader Hitler.

Stalin on the other hand lifted an Asian nation to late industrialism and destroyed eighty percent of the Nazi military forces, and lost over twenty-five million men and women to crush one evil and raise another called communism with its Gulags, and death camps. forced labor for socialist re-education, spreading his guerrilla hosts to implement compulsory solidarity among the workers, peasants and destroying the bourgeoisie, so that happiness was mandatory collective and collectivized, then, Marx's good and best intentions built an ideology that built the utopias of equality in the huge China of Mao Tse Dong, Chou En Lay, Fidel Castro, Noriega, Kim Jon Un, Bross Tito, all believing to give humanity the best fairest system of government and socially fair and correct.

It was 998 years of Christian theocentrism that during the Middle Ages the Christian church led the souls of all Europe all in the name of God who was everything, the human being was nothing, everything was for God, everything was colorless, the singing was monophonic, pleasures and culture were forbidden, there were only two classes or social strata, the serfs and the feudal lords, so all the theocentrism and the Christian tradition resulted in the dark ages of that prison of soul and bodies within totalitarianism of the religious fanaticism of the medieval Catholic Church.

The great Alexander who led Macedonia to its greatest moments in history ended the most intellectual empire and civilization that existed in history, the Hellenic civilization that under Athens revolutionized philosophy and created the habit of thinking outside of religion, myths and traditions, building the first metaphysics and the bases of the hierarchy and domain of logic and heuristics, building all possible currents to be imagined in the polymorphic framework of epistemological, ontological and dialectical thought. In the end, even trying to invent democracy, it succumbed to its own and wise contradictions of its three main princes of deontology and principle and respectively students and teachers of each other, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, buried the myths, and the tradition and created the myth from murder by canceling ideas with the death decreed for Socrates, by corrupting young minds with his cynical nihilism.

It seems every time you want to save humanity, you run into a disaster greater than the situation you want to resolve.

The long list of humanity's saviors always ends in more catastrophe simply because there is nothing to be saved, or perfected, or improved, or redeemed, that is, the salvation and progress of humanity is nothing more than a self-justifying myth, just like heaven and earth. hell, never existed.