Tribune. Forgive me, Monsieur Camus. Forgive me, you too, his millions of admirers… I would like to ask your permission to repeat here a few of your words, to claim your audacity, to plead, as you have been able to do in the face of the authorities of the inhuman. , to fight, in your image, as a rebel of the world who knew how to refuse heresy and its terrifying consequences.
The Brazilian that I am, like so many others, finds himself besieged, in these dark times, by a double scourge whose ravages are only the addition of our own collective mistakes. In addition to the biological “plague”, this epidemic so badly managed that it caused the most serious health crisis in the history of my country, we are suffering from another evil, much more deadly in the long term. An evil which diplomatically isolates us, an evil which insidiously gnaws at the Amazon and persecutes those who protect it. An evil which allows mining in indigenous reserves, and prefers sawn logs to living logs … An evil castrating freedoms, which threatens democracy and revives odious censorship, promotes intolerance, homophobia, machismo, violence. By imprisoning our reason and our common sense, it destroys us, incites hatred, poses as an enemy of the arts and culture, humiliates our conscience by denying science.
This evil, which has its own variants, is the work of a clan. Associated with detachment, negationism, disinformation, lies, it ends up suppressing, even temporarily, our revolt, our resistance and our indignation.
Let us quote Camus: “Plagues, indeed, are a common thing, but one hardly believes in plagues when they fall on your head. (…) When a war breaks out, people say, “It won’t last, that’s too stupid.” And no doubt a war is certainly too stupid, but that does not prevent it from lasting. Stupidity always insists, one would notice it if one did not always think of oneself. “
Repression, aggression, persecution
Yes, at home, on the other side of the Atlantic, this ocean which separates us and brings us closer, French friends, evil is everywhere: in questions of the environment, human rights, foreign affairs. Is it the ideology that is perverse, or the one who theorized it, or even the one who knowingly uses it?
In my democracy, young and therefore fragile, we recently heard, on our own television network, a certain Secretary of State for Culture paraphrasing a speech by Joseph Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Adolf Hitler, responsible for propaganda… Goebbels the anti-Semite, the damned soul of the worst ideology.
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