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Why families
are often destroyed submitted to extravagant whims of a heir,
even when he or she is visibly unbalanced? Why, all over the
world, so many politicians are deeply immersed in corruption?
Why do we distrust the agro-food industry? Why so often do businessmen
join politicians, intensifying the wave of corruption? Why pharma
and chemical industries are so often considered as groups of
criminals? Why entire countries are often devastated by criminal
financial systems?
We all observe a gradual planetary impoverishment, a growing
social asymmetry, the gradual emergence of a tyrannical planetary
bureaucratic government directed - albeit invisibly - by large
corporations and very effectively disguised as propaganda, in
which, whatever their trend, politicians, popular singers, high
society stars, commercial book writers and so on participate.
We see the end of democracy, countless frauds - like GDP or inflation,
for example - without any reaction or frank denunciation.
Politicians or people connected to their world only speak, albeit
sometimes in different ways, of one single thing: power.
No politician speaks - or seriously acts in a continuous and
consistent way - about education, culture, art, music, poetry,
literature or philosophy. Things that are taken as "silly"
- but that are the basis of science! Science in itself tends
to disappear, giving way to "applied sciences", with
the aim of "making money" - even if the latter does
not exist without the former!
Poverty is explained through the easy and synthetic thesis of
the robbery perpetrated by an elite against poor. But, this same
explanation has been historically the justification of the most
odious dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, where small elites
explore to the exhaustion a people kidnapped and under permanent
menace. What is behind that?
Economy is implicitness - and it requires a special nature of
mind organization to exist.
Over the last thirty years at least I have studied the planetary
metamorphosis and the transformation of thought. In 1992, I started
a project to this end. Now, twenty-five years later and two books
published, I'm launching a third book - the last one of this
project - which presents an interesting discovery: not only our
biological and behavioral link to insects as well as the key,
in neurological terms, of what we commonly historically call
"civilization", "Western civilization".
Such discovery clearly shows that the intensification of the
specific use of a certain area of the brain changes what we are
in individual and collective terms. But, not only, it also shows
how such happened in historical terms, how it designed what we
are now and how it continues designing us.
Two essential points: what we know plastically changes our brains,
and what we know is our way of knowing, following Kant's ideas.
Projecting a conclusion: everything we are is based on an aesthetic
issue. From the Greek aisthetikos, which means sensory perception
and cognition. This phenomenon - which physiologically designs
our brains - is at the basis even of the organization of the
forces of production, and of those who had thought about them
or about that question. Or in wars and refugee flows, so often
manipulated by governments and groups of human traffickers.
The Grasshopper Man is no justification for any kind of criminal
act, in the past or at present, whether political or otherwise.
Never! By contrary! It illuminates the question. Only by knowing
we can counteract those tragic events.
We are gaily walking in direction to a Sixth Extinction. We pollute
everything we pass through, we destroy our last forests, we devastate
ancient biological cultures, we condemn to extinction a gigantic
number of living beings every month - forgetting that we are
part of all that, and worse, without the awareness that we are
committing a collective suicide. All this is in The Grasshopper
Man.
Perhaps the most relevant discovery of The Grasshopper Man is
that we deal with culture - which redesigns us physiologically
- rather than with racism, power or even Natural Selection strictu
sensu.
That means the future is in our hands.
Read the book and, please, spread out!
Emanuel
Dimas de Melo Pimenta, 2017
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