Rationally understand irrationalities

"Moralistic ends justify violent means." - Jonathan Haidt.

"When the missionaries arrived in Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land."

They told us, “Let’s pray.” We closed our eyes to pray. When we opened them, we had the Bible.

 "And they had our land." - Desmond Tutu.

Words are not simply words. They transform into actions, into behaviors. Verbs become flesh. From this it follows that a vile social communication industry is capable of forging vile spectators and social actors. This is the strategic basis upon which both the fascist network of production is founded. Words and images with their cognitive dissonances (“It’s the NGOs that are setting fire to the Amazon rainforest,” “Electronic voting machines are rigged,” “The PT developed penis-shaped baby bottles, etc.”), like the corporate press, representing big capital, for whom more important than analyzing the content of the interview given by Rosângela Silva (Janja) to the Fantástico program is speculating about “the price of the blouse she was wearing at that event” and selling it as news to be the dominant topic of conversation the next day.
This is the central axis of Hybrid Warfare A subliminal war. A war made of words, images, inversions of reality, the volatility of information, emotionality, the provocation of resentments hidden in the depths of individuals, prejudices of class, race, color, gender, as well as the convictions disseminated by religious systems, rooted in the core of each human soul. In this type of war, the warlike processes are all the more effective the more imperceptible they are.
The consequences of a Hybrid War are not necessarily bodies lying on the ground in the open air, hit by projectiles and filmed on television; but They are the invisible victims. From the economic and political breakdown caused by warlords, expressed in unemployment, hunger, malnutrition, precarious work and the weakening of social safety nets for families, from the structural violence of the police and justice system against the general population, from the haste of internal polarizations that fuel violence between brothers of the same nation. In the face of 180 million children starving in the world, the Markets are considered sacred and untouchable.

Hybrid warfare is founded on the concept of faith. As is known, faith moves mountains. Faith is based on belief without the necessary requirement of demonstrating proof; it is founded on dogmas, convictions, and hierarchies. Some believe that at the beginning of the creation of the world, the serpent spoke to the first humans; that thunder occurred because Zeus was angry; that the world was created a little over five thousand years ago; that woman was made from man's rib; that there are human figures with wings; that human faults (sins) are washed away in blood by sacrificing animals or humans; that women cannot enter a temple with their arms exposed; that a bad harvest was due to the existence of witches (women) and it was necessary to burn them (Copernicus delayed the publication of his discovery about the reality of the solar system precisely for fear of religious persecution; Giordano Bruno was not so lucky). 

Therefore, faith has no limits, it dispenses with rationality. It is founded on a magical vision of life. Undoubtedly, filling the explanatory void with a myth generates more feeling of security Rather than a black hole in the unknown, faith prevails in the absence of science. And feeling like children of God makes people powerful and secure in the face of the planetary chaos in which they live. Faced with an insecure existence, they cling to any hope. Faith has been a strategic tool in wars. The Nazis carried the motto "God is with us" on their banners during their genocidal attacks. The Taliban allows itself to do anything in the name of faith. The motto "God, Fatherland, Family" is on the lips of current neo-fascists like Trump, Erdogan, Meloni, and Bolsonaro. Israel still believes itself to be "God's chosen people," with the right to exercise divine justice over other peoples. Therefore, the Hybrid Warfare unleashed in the present time is based on the tactic of manipulating faith for political ends. to adopt beliefs necessary to justify and confirm desires, to claim God's faithfulness to human actions. In the name of Jesus, priests and pastors They recommended to the faithful, in their liturgical acts, broadcast through social media and confessional television, to vote for Bolsonaro in 2022. Beliefs are being used to justify the unjustifiable.

There is no barbarity that cannot be protected by arguments of "high nobility." Formulations that allow the reins of hatred to be unleashed, that feeling of hating with good reason. After all, immorality is something else. And so processes of hypocrisy develop in the defense of old and new privileges. To clamor for dictatorship to save democracy. In the name of morality and customs, hatred prevails. The average Brazilian Christian can equate attending weekly religious rites with worshipping pro-gun ideology, praising torturers officially condemned by the State, and accepting and condoning practices of intolerance and violence against social minorities.

A prime example is the deplorable tweet from the general, an abject offering to the fascist masses, demonstrating clear signs of insanity, published on his account on the 15th, where he highlights the... "Incredible persistence with which people protest against attacks on democracy (of themselves), to the independence of the branches of government, threats to freedom, and doubts about the electoral process. This is the sad scenario that has unfolded over the last four years. But as Supreme Court Justice Roberto Barroso would say: "You lost, buddy. Don't bother me!" With Lula, Brazil is back!