[Studio PANaroma at Unesp (Brazil)] SHAME !

[Flo Menezes]

SHAME!

A shame what happens in Brazil today!
A fascist was elected by about 55% of the population. Another significant part of the population, about 45% of which I am a member, had fervently chosen to defend democracy, freedom, the defense of equal rights, respect for minorities, the struggle for better education, for a better distribution of income.

We lose to human stupidity!

It was no use having had a disastrous Military Dictatorship for decades! Brazil learned nothing from this traumatic experience.
For to a considerable part of the population that horror was not even a trauma; these people did not know how to draw the consequences of the disasters caused by the regime of oppression that devastated our country. The hate speech of the winning candidate, openly apologetic of the atrocities committed by the Dictatorship, found a pathetic echo in the intellectual smallness of the people who elected him. All the entrenched radical conservatism of Jair Bolsonaro's voters came out of the closet, blinded by a blind hatred toward the Workers' Party (PT = Partido dos Trabalhadores), which had made several mistakes in power but also made several improvements.

For the sake of illusion in bourgeois governability, which can only occur under the price of collusion with people who are worthless, with gangsters of a spurious system, the PT was caught in its own trap and leveled against itself the execration of conservatism. Therefore, it provided the fuel that inflamed the repudiation against the party itself, a hatred that used the condemnatory pretext of the various cases of corruption of the PT governments, in fact reprehensible, but whose practice has been extended to power in Brazil since its Portuguese colonization and that in no way was an exclusive part of the PT that governed the country.

Brazil suffers from the absence of a minimum of civic consciousness. People tolerate themselves in the appearance of the "kindness" that characterizes us so much as a people, but they do not really love each other. For what he hated was, in fact, the social advance that brought the black people and the poor into the classroom at the Public University, placing the most disadvantaged alongside the wealthiest people, or placing the semi-literate in the ranks of petite-bourgeoisie supermarkets. The cases of corruption were only the pretext to mask the contempt and hypocrisy that characterize us as a nation.

The PT had the chance to, in power, face these prejudices and change the way of doing politics in Brazil. It opted, however, for the old "take it, give it here", entering into the vicious scheme of what is most repugnant in capitalism. It has betrayed the irrevocable ethics of the leftists, since being a leftist is not only to promote better conditions of life, but also of thought, and of course to oppose the unscrupulous gains of great capital. Encouraging consumption without critical thinking is to shoot yourself in the foot, at least if one wants to be a left in power.

And exchanging favors with scoundrels finally takes its toll. As a consequence, we are already seeing the retreat of the few and more than defensible social advances promoted by the PT in power, which should be irreversible. This was the price paid by Lulism (Lula's leadership), which, already agonizingly, would still lead a further hesitation: a Left Front of democratic forces, which should be erected as soon as possible to stop the advance of fascism, was wrongly delayed and, when constituted, no longer had the strength to fade the wave of stupidity that took hold of the country.

Of course, in the midst of this crisis, almost half of the population came to unite with the superb energy of Love and the defense of Liberty and Thought, and this gentleness, which is to come in permanent resistance, brings us, if we know get organized, some hope. But defeat is not simply for another democratically ultraconservative half. It is for fascism which, certain now of its electoral victory, is disguised by means of appeasing speeches and hypocritical prayers, in order, in fact, to start the most evil attitudes. The masks of conservatism have fallen amidst the electoral process, but the mask of fascism still hangs on its face: soon, however, the "God in the heart" (“Deus no coração”, expression used by the fascist Bolsonaro) will not think twice to plunge bullets into several hearts, if need be.

If the music I am advocating no longer finds the right place in the late-capitalist society in which we live, what to expect from a deeply uncultivated, authoritarian, conservative and reactionary hate-dominated society??? My concern, however, goes far, far beyond the music I do: I will continue to do it, even if only for myself, even if just inside my head. But far beyond that, they will be millions of disadvantaged, much of whom – let's laugh! – elected Bolsonaro, who will pay the price with the substantial worsening of the already bad conditions of their lives, with the loss of the few social advances that we had conquered in Brazil. Will they learn with a second dictatorship???

I should perhaps go to meet these people and take advantage of the maxim of Terence, quoted by Karl Marx when asked by his daughters about would be the motto of his life: "Nothing that is human might be strange to me.” But I must be honest. I have no respect for conservatives. None! Not here, I make concessions. I note, however, that the mordacity of a Nelson Rodrigues (one of the most important authors of the Brazilian theater), paradoxically conservative, was more than certain: "The idiots will take care of the world; not by capacity, but by quantity. They are many".

I'm in mourning for Brazil. I'm ashamed of Brazil.

Flo Menezes, Composer
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