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have something different in mind. within a foreseeable time, in putting an book Culture Wars: the Struggle to define
I think the main reason we rebel against end to the threat of war. America , published in 1991 and without
war is that we can’t do anything else. We We cannot guess by what paths or translation in Brazil. Appropriating the
are pacifists because we are obliged to shortcuts this will take place. But one thing German expression Kulturkampf (cultural
be so, for organic, basic reasons. And so, we can say: everything that stimulates the war), a concept used by the campaign
we have difficulty finding arguments that growth of civilization works simultaneously against the influence of the Catholic
justify our attitude. against war. church carried out by Chancellor Otto von
No doubt this requires some explanation. I hope you will forgive me if what I said Bismarck, between 1871 and 1878, Hunter
I believe it is the following. Over incalculable disappointed you, and with the expression observed how his country was polarized in
periods of time, humanity has undergone of all esteem, I subscribe. demonstrations against abortion, against
a process of cultural evolution (I know that Cordially, art and against feminism, to name a few.
some prefer to use the term ‘civilization’). Sigmund FReUD More recently, campaigns defaming
It is to this process that we owe the best of electoral processes and anti-vaccine
what we have become, as well as a good *About the copyright relating to this processes can also be observed in the
part of what we suffer from. publication extracted from: context of cultural wars.
Although its causes and beginnings are A dialogue between Einstein and Freud: More than a simple opposition between
obscure and its outcome is uncertain, some why the war? / presentation by Deisy de conservative or progressive proposals,
of its characteristics are easy to perceive. Freitas Lima Ventura, Ricardo Antônio the agents of this war use logic that
Perhaps this process is leading to the Silva Seitenfus oeste Maria: FaDISMa, 2005. rejects science and even common sense,
extinction of the human race, as in more FaDISMa – Faculty of Law of Santa Maria characterized by denouncing non-existent
than one sense it impairs sexual function; About the copyright relating to this dangers based on false information. In
Uneducated people and backward layers publication: short, it is a crusade that aims to avoid
of the population are already multiplying The texts of Einstein and Freud are in any form of autonomy for citizens so that
faster than the highly educated layers. the public domain. they are subject to the neoliberal system
Perhaps the process can be compared Based on the Brazilian (Complete Works without question and using the sensation
to the domestication of certain animal of Sigmund Freud, Standard Brazilian of panic as a method – a strategy with an
species, and it is undoubtedly accompanied edition. Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 1976. v. xxII) emotional appeal, therefore difficult to
by physical changes; but we have not yet and French (DaVID, Christophe. Einstein e counteract with rational arguments.
become familiar with the idea that the Freud. Pour quoi la guerre? Paris: Payot & In Brazil, Olavo de Carvalho (1947-2022)
evolution of civilization is an organic Rivages, 2005) was one of the great spokespersons for
process of this order. The psychic changes these wars, influencing thousands of people
that accompany the process of civilization CULTURaL WaR/DIgITaL [pageS 26 TO 31] and even appointing state ministers at the
are notorious and unequivocal. They consist beginning of the Bolsonaro government.
of a progressive displacement of instinctive CULTURE WARS GROW It is, as Hunter states, the contest for the
purposes and a limitation imposed on ON SOCIAL MEDIA present and the future: “Ultimately, the
instinctive impulses. Sensations that were Why attacks on cultural institutions battle for this symbolic territory reveals
pleasant for our ancestors have become and works of art are used as a conflict over worldviews – over what
indifferent or even intolerable for us; There instruments of the right, based on standards our communities and our nation
are organic reasons for changes in our algorithms that value hate speech will live by; about what we consider to be
ethical and aesthetic ideals. bY FabIO CYpRIaNO ‘of lasting value’ in our communities; about
Among the psychological characteristics what we consider a fair representation of
of civilization, two appear to be the most laSt JanuarY, a councilor from the pL of our times, and so on.”
important: the strengthening of the Fortaleza recorded a video, which quickly Culture wars, however, are an explicit
intellect, which is beginning to govern went viral, attacking the Pinacoteca do strategy of conservative movements that
the life of instinct, and the internalization Ceará for exhibiting supposed works against have lost control of the narrative in the
of aggressive impulses with all their Christian morality and the proper training field of culture and art, in which libertarian
consequent advantages and dangers. of children. Without explaining that such and progressive ideas have come to
Now, war constitutes the most obvious work is in areas with specific signs about dominate debates, especially since the
opposition to the psychic attitude that was the indicative age classification, following counterculture movements of the 1960s/ 70.

instilled in us by the process of civilization, parameters of federal rules, the Liberal As such values are intrinsically associated
and for this reason we cannot avoid Party parliamentarian, whose president with left-wing parties, it was necessary
rebelling against it; We simply can no longer was recently arrested involved in the coup for conservatives to seek strategies to
conform to it. This is not just an intellectual acts of January 8, 2023, accused the pT, question this field and, therefore, advances
and emotional repudiation. We, pacifists, responsible by the government of Ceará on identity issues, Paulo Freire’s pedagogy
have a constitutional intolerance to war, and, consequently, by the management of the oppressed, contemporary art,
let’s say, an idiosyncrasy exacerbated to of the Pinacoteca, using typical hateful vaccines and abortion, to name the main
the highest degree. rhetoric, to use an agenda of customs in focuses of these wars.
Indeed, it seems that the lowering of an electoral manner. After all, despite the However, the effective objective, even
aesthetic standards in war plays hardly a exhibition with such works being open for if based on customs, is simply to seek
smaller role in our revolt than its cruelties. more than a year, the councilor causes to deconstruct the charm of the left’s
And how long will we have to wait until controversy at the beginning of 2024, when libertarian proposals through fear: “They
the rest of humanity also becomes pacifist? there are municipal elections in the country. will destroy our families”. This motto,
There’s no way to say it. But it may not be Coincidence? however, is as appealing as it is fanciful,
utopian to expect that these two factors, These actions are a kind of afterthought after all, in Brazil today, 48% of Brazilian
cultural attitude and the justified fear of the of what the American sociologist James homes have women as the head of the
consequences of a future war, will result, Davison Hunter diagnosed in the family, to cite a figure that shows how the

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