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Roesler. He wrote the text about the up creating local correspondents to he took office), Brazilian palaces
painter José Antônio da Silva. what they understand as international were invaded on a Sunday af ernoon,
prototypes. Thus, Ismael Nery is never when they were empty, a few days
january 8, 2023 article [pages 8 to 13] Ismael Nery. For these people, Nery will af er Lula took office.
always be “our” Marc Chagall; Portinari
THE CRAZY WHITE “our” Picasso, Fabio Assunção, “our” 3 – donald trump, before the
MAN’S SAMBA Brad Pitt. Avenida Paulista as “our” invasion of the capitol, publicly
The terrorist attacks in Brasilia and its Fif h Avenue, and thus culminating in and personally called on his
actors can be understood as a kind of opera the belief that Jair Bolsonaro would be co-religionists to go to that house
buffa, a clumsy parody of what happened in “our” Donald Trump. of Congress, to reject and prevent
the invasion of the Capitol
It is in this sense that January 8, 2023 the act that was about to occur. Jair
thaddeus chiarelli was “our” January 6, 2021; It is in this Bolsonaro, for his part, leaves Brazil
sense that the invasion of the palaces before the end of his term, seeming
what happened on january 8th at Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília to have delegated the command
of this year at Praça dos Três Poderes, was “our” invasion of the Capitol. of the January 8 operation to his
in Brasília – the action itself and its Keeping the forcefulness of the closest followers and sectarians.
performers – has already produced parodic dimension of that act of
several reflections, and I am sure that January 8, 2023 and understanding 4 – if after donald trump’s
many others will still be realized. Af er this dimension as a drama, perhaps pronounce ment, his supporters
all, that event can be interpreted and we can see that the well-known went of their own free will towards
characterized by several points of view phrase uttered by Karl Marx can take the Capitol, those of Jair Bolsonaro
that, even added together, will hardly give on other meanings: if, for the German were led to the Esplanada dos
the true dimension of what happened. philosopher, history happens as a Ministérios by the local police.
What happened in the Planalto tragedy and repeats itself as a farce, Thus, what happened in
Palace, in the National Congress and here on the periphery, the farce – and Washington had a dramatic
in the Federal Supreme Court that day its laughable dimension – is always dimension, largely orchestrated
can (and should) be analyzed in its tragic too, because, af er all, the copy in the heat of the moment and
social and political bias as a strategic – when accompanied by the attempt the circumstance of a particular
action to create conditions for a new at the symbolic erasure of time and moment in American history. What
anti-democratic coup against Brazilian history, (as we will see) – it can also be happened in Brasilia, two years
society, fortunately foiled. It can also profoundly dramatic. later, was an orchestrated mockery
be an object of sociological and so that the already ex-president
anthropological analyses, which seek *** Bolsonaro would become “our”
to understand how and why apparently Before going into considerations Trump, a second-rate Trump, of
peaceful groups of the Brazilian middle about certain images of the invasion course, but turned into a hero, the
class – fundamentally “white” – invaded propagated by the media, I highlight savior of the homeland.
the country’s palaces of democracy as some facts that occurred in January
vandals and as terrorists . 2023 in Brasilia so that we do not forget ***
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But I would like to look at what – and that it is well engraved in our A figure that drew attention during
happened from another perspective. minds – that everything was, to a large the invasion of the Capitol was a guy
I would like to understand it, and its extent, a mockery of what happened in dressed as a Viking, painted with the
actors, as a kind of opera buffa, a clumsy Washington in 2021: colors and stars of the American flag,
and cynical parody of what happened as if he were ready for war. As pathetic
in Washington, The usa, on January 6, 1 – the capitol – seat of the us as that guy looked, something about his
2021, during the invasion of the Capitol. Congress – was conceived in the 18th attitude needs to be taken into account:
century as a complex of buildings that, dressed as a Viking, he invoked – only
*** while referring to a Greco-Roman for some North Americans, of course
Part of the Brazilian “white” middle past, behaves like a fortress, a white – a Northern European ancestry, a
class insists on not seeing itself as a and impregnable bunker. The palaces past with one foot in the ethnographic
member of a society defined by a series at Praça dos Três Poderes, created origins of some of the inhabitants of
of characteristics and contradictions, in the late 1950s, although they had that country.
preferring to live as if it constituted a classical Greek architecture as a Because we also had “our” Viking,
group of exiles from other societies prototype, behave, above all, as which appeared during the celebrations
and cultures. They live in the interior of vulnerable places, designed based on of September 7, 2021 in São Paulo, eight
Santa Catarina as if they were German; the concepts of reception, integration months af er the appearance of the
in São Paulo, as if they were Italian; in and passage. “original” Viking in Washington. As a
Goiás, as if they lived in Texas. But kind of prologue to what would happen
the paradise of this group tends to be 2 – the capitol was invaded and two years later – or as a kind of “wing
The United States, Florida, Miami and the palaces of praça dos três opening” for a samba school that went
Orlando – for its members, a kind of poderes as well. However, if the bad –, in the Bolsonarist celebrations
Brazil that “worked”. former was invaded on a weekday on that September 7th, “our” Viking
Because of this need to live here (Friday), to try to prevent John Biden reflected like a mirror. distorted “their”
as if they were there, this class ends from taking office (therefore, before prototype.
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