False truths

In modern psychoanalysis, lying has always been a way to defend one's own privacy. That's what I learned from my analyst. Those who want to know too much end up knowing what isn't true. As long as it doesn't harm others, lying has always been a matter to be discussed, whether from a moral or religious perspective. "I don't lie" has always been a calling card for someone who is blameless, and it usually didn't correspond to the truth. 

Lying is a tool, whether innocent or harmful.

What we are experiencing here in Brazil is the distortion of the good and innocent lie to give space only to the evil lie, the one that exists to guarantee the lives of those who have no truth to reveal.

The Bolsonaro government lies as if telling the truth. Lying has become a shameless discourse, and they lie to secure their power. Even when challenged, which happens very frequently, those who listen and believe don't question it. For a lie to exist and survive, it needs someone to believe in it fervently. Retractions lack charm; they are reality without emotion, in a negative sense. It's like neurosis, great passions, vanity, all seven deadly sins, and falsehood. Compared to psychological health, happiness, and honesty, neurosis is more charming. A retraction is the same; it only serves to correct an untruth that certainly had a devastating effect. 

So, the government's language became one of lies, with no concern whatsoever for the subsequent rebuttals. The educated masses only hear the lies and ruminate on them without heeding the rebuttals. Language is the true dictatorship. Language becomes the ultimate weapon in all sectors. Even with photos, denunciations, deposits, revealing phone recordings, all it takes is for you to refuse to believe what you hear and not give it importance, and everything falls apart. The lack of information among Bolsonaro's supporters ends up being the fundamental element for this false information to take hold. 

The journalistic language we see today also follows a certain rule of normality that ends up distorting the facts. The time we waste listening to news reports saying that this government is normal ends up delaying what can be done, democratically, to resolve this. What we are experiencing, even though the government was elected in a vote full of questions, is not normal. Judging the actions of ministers or even the president from a perspective of normality ends up feeding this network of lies that sustains the government itself.

Official news outlets have to maintain a certain level of decorum, I understand, but they can't do the disservice of saying this is a normal government. Being elected doesn't mean it deserves our respect. Impeachment exists for this reason, and President Dilma was deposed unjustly and through a calculated scheme without the slightest shame. Again, normal language dictated that this government wasn't normal. The language used this time didn't respect that. It went straight to the point, feeding those who wanted that government to end. This proves that language serves the interests of those who control it. 

Today we are living through a true battle between the government's lies and the news of those lies disseminated by the mainstream press, so to speak, and the real, alternative press, the one that delves into the facts and doesn't consider what we are experiencing to be normal. We respect democracy and want Bolsonaro to disappear through democratic means, but to think that this is a normal government is too much. Neither he nor those who support him deserve to be considered normal. We must put an end to these official lies and re-establish the truth of the facts as the only news that interests us. Only then can we interpret them in the way we see fit.