I love politics, but I’m not a hardcore politics addict, neither I know all about the definitions that are going trough each of the ideologies.
However I think that I’m able to use my brain a little bit, and I’m also available to listen to opinions different than mine, that allied with a somewhat common sense (I hope that it’s commom sense) and some ideas of what I see as what should be the mankind goals, put me in a place where I can see my ideas mostly on the liberal side.
This doesn’t means that I can’t stand conservatives (or others), as I said before, I’m able to listen to their ideas, and there can be some of them with whom I agree.
I can’t stand, however, and that’s something that I’m understanding about myself more and more in the last couple of years, extremism. Being it from the left or from the right, for me extremism is some of the worst feelings that exists can exist in any human.
That being said, I love electoral campaigns, those months are interesting for me, the debates, the speeches, are moments that make spend hours reading newspapers and watching tv.
Lately I’m feeling myself with mix feelings about those moments, even enjoying the politics, I«’m seeing too much extremism to hope for something good in the future.
I’m an apologist for the “logic” that mankind history is cyclic, that for me means mostly that we’re are dumb.
Why?
Simple, we’ve done mistakes, and somehow we’ve done it again and again, not trying to give a history lesson to know one, we can go use one simple example – probably not that simple – but, let’s look in a wide perspective to religion, and lets stay in the western world, and with that let’s use 4 examples, to how we’ve destroyed something when we’ve became extremist, let’s go back to the crusades, just give me a logic explanation of what happened for the Europeans/Christians decision to try to destroy another civilization. Fast forward a couple of years and we get to the era of the “descobrimentos” in which the Europeans went on to “discover” the new world and to try to destroy their cultures, religions, and mostly their lives, that because “We’re better than anyone else”. A few years go by and we get to one of the darkest periods of the European history, the inquisition, in which, we, again decide that because “we’re better than anyone else” let’s send jews to somewhere else, preferably to death – somehow this seems to become a recurrent theme – and then again a few years ago, – and in this case, let’s be honest, it’s not completely a religious extremism fault – we go and decide again that “we’re better than anyone else” and let’s, again, decide that it’s better to send the jews, again, to somewhere else, preferably death.
Common places in all these moments:
– “we’re better than anyone else” narrative
– Extremism
And now I look around, and I start to see all those kind of narratives in a lot of places, and it’s not only on that real small party, that never gets any places on any parliament, in which I kind of liked to see, because it’s – on my own opinion – a spectacular way to show the worst in mankind, and some kind of stupidity. Now it’s everywhere, and that’s not funny anymore, it’s not a small showing of those worst aspects fo humans, it’s now becoming something so widespread, that we have the possibility of those narratives go into power in some of the more powerful countries in the western world, those countries, that until a couple of years ago were always seen as the most liberal countries in the world.
So, even if I’m trying not to be pessimist – and by nature I’m pessimist – I can’t shake the feeling that we’re now on a very bumpy and dark road and there’s no going back.
Just to clarify, I was thinking of writing about Trump and the stupidity that must go in so many people heads, and it turns out that I keep on going back to how awful our future appears to becoming. Thinking it again, the result of one and another is basically the same.
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