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– And how can we, seen as the the issue. Steve Bannon has a the sphinx deciphered, the ending
enemy, combat this attack? What is documentary, Generation Zero , that of Oedipus is not happy. It is not
your method? discusses the financial bubble, the enough to decipher the sphinx,
Firstly, we have to be aware that this war housing crisis. Do you know who, for contrary to what we think. The really
is ongoing. This is important because, him, is to blame for the 2008 crisis? new hypothesis that I propose is the
sometimes, everything seems so It’s from the Frankfurt School! Why following: what we call human, as a
delusional, so far from reality, that our this obsession? Because Marcuse, at form of time and space operation,
tendency is not to pay attention to the the end of the 60s, was the inspirer of does not exist without temporal
articulated speeches. Here, I believe, the counterculture, the guru of North lag. What characterizes the human
my collaboration comes in. I have American youth, of youth in Paris. is the need for a time lag between
now discussed Dominion Theology The cultural war assumes that what the following acts: an action, its
a lot. I’m not a theologian, there are is at stake, in fact, is a battle for the transmission, its reception and its
many people in Brazil who know the definition of civilization. And there is a subsequent interpretation. What
subject two hundred times more than I complete embrace here: what is being social networks truly establish that
do. The contribution I try to make is to defended is the Greco-Roman-Judeo- is unprecedented in the history of
carefully analyze the discourse and the Christian civilization, understand that human communication is the promise
translation of the project behind that however you want. of impossible simultaneity. See,
discourse. I work on the texts in detail, on social media, an act, an action,
reading them two, three, five times, – White, male, who does before being completed, is already
sometimes spending years thinking, not question slavery, capitalism, transmitted; being transmitted, it
looking for links that are not visible colonialism, in other words, everything is already received; and often the
at first. that needs to be questioned cannot be interpretation of the action that has
questioned. not yet been completed impacts
– Would it almost be a literary Yes. As Machado de Assis said, “it is the course of the action itself. This
analysis of the phenomenon? easier to appreciate the whip when you axis of simultaneity produces a
What I try to do is carefully analyze the have the handle in your hand”. When hermeneutic collapse. And see,
speeches and, as I have training as a it is wielded, not when it is received in there is no possibility of aesthetic
historian, I always try to contextualize the back. But let us remember that the experience without contemplation.
them in the long term, over a long cultural war predates the expansion But contemplation is a way of slowing
period of time. The cultural war, at first, of the digital universe, through the down time. How many times, when
is a reaction to the counterculture in everyday ubiquity of social networks. faced with a story, a poem, a painting,
the United States and also in Europe. Now, the extreme right is the great a symphony, a ballet, do you have the
In France, for example, it is a reaction political phenomenon of the first two impression that you switch off, close
to May 68. In the United States, to decades of the 21st century. And it is your eyes. You need time, don›t you?
the hippie movement, but also to the very important to recognize here that Because what we call hermeneutics
Black Panthers. Counterculture, as a the extreme right comes to power, at is the fundamental idea that between
movement, ended up being assimilated least for the first time, through free and us, in the present, and the language
by the very capitalism it challenged. But democratic elections. Bolsonaro won of the past – although it is the same
counterculture as an attitude affected the elections in 2018; in 2016, Trump did – a hole has opened up. There is no
the basis of the capitalist system. He not win the popular vote, but he won longer immediate communication,
gave up private property at all levels, the American Electoral College; Viktor time has passed, the time lag is
especially in personal relationships; the Orbán, who was left-wing in his youth – what makes us human. Is the world
counterculture considered experience, imagine that – also won the first election increasingly inhumane? Yes, because
not possession, and not wealth, as the in Hungary; Javier Milei obtained 55% in this dizziness of a simultaneous
highest value. Wealth meant a rich of the votes in the Argentine election… time between action-transmission-
experience and not a bank account. She What happens? The extreme right reception-interpretation-impact, the
also proposed a radical transformation understood the unprecedented extreme right does nothing.
in interpersonal relationships, the way potential of social networks long
women related to their husbands, before the progressive camp. And this – Authoritarianism follows a
etc. And the counterculture was potential is the production of cognitive logic of pure and simple acceptance
identified in the cultural war mainly chaos. Cognitive chaos due to excess or denial. It’s pure Manichaeism.
with the Frankfurt school. And this information, not its absence. And social Yes, Manichaeism is pure verticality,
has a concrete reason: in World networks, in relation to the issue of time, it has no nuance. There is no time lag.
War II the most important thinkers produce something that if we don’t Everything is here, now, already.
of the Frankfurt School went to the understand, we won’t be able to face.
United States: Adorno, Horkheimer, – Did you see the art produced
Lowenthal, Herbert Marcuse. If the – Is it like fighting a hydra, where by artificial intelligence to publicize
former returned to Germany, Marcuse you cut off one head and then three the demonstration on February 25th
stayed in California, at the University more are born? in Paulista? They were created from a
of San Diego. Do you know who he had You know that I have been basic command. The power of the white
as a student? Angela Davis! Marcuse revisiting Oedipus Rex , by Sophocles. man and divine power over this crowd.
wrote works that were absolutely iconic I have been rereading many classics I saw it. Was that artificial intelligence?!
and fundamental to the movement of to think about the contemporary It’s unbelievable! In fact, there
‘68. Again, what I try to do is establish situation. Oedipus deciphers the are practically only white people.
these links that are almost narrative, sphinx. That›s the reference we Impressive. Look how crazy I realized
almost a literary way of approaching always make, isn›t it? But even with now. There are two closed traffic lights,
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