CHRONIC WOUNDS
There are wounds of complex healing. However, there are also those that are cultivated to gain advantage.
Victor Hugo's work "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" is a classic of universal literature that has already yielded memorable films, starting with the 1939 one, starring Charles Laughton (Quasimodo), Maureen O'Hara (Esmeralda), Cedric Hardwicke (the terrible Frollo) and Edmond O'Brien (Pierre Gringoire).
In it, the scene in which Quasimodo saves Esmeralda from the scaffold, jumping with the aid of a rope, and takes her to the temple, where he cries out: "Sanctuary!", is one of the most moving and vibrant in the Seventh Art, in my opinion.
But another striking thing in this work is the mention of the "Court (or Yard) of Miracles", a place in medieval Paris where the blindness, wounds and other deficiencies that sustained beggars were "magically" cured. In this case, they were opportunistic lies that exploited the good faith of those who gave them alms.
Beyond these appearances, there were also those who cultivated real sores as a means of livelihood. There still are, unfortunately, and for multiple reasons.
Curing certain wounds does not interest those who profit from them. When it comes to spiritual or psychological wounds, especially those associated with persecution, torture, frustration or loss, they can go beyond the "wounded" person, transforming themselves into collective sores.
Should parents who suffered in childhood transfer their fears and frustrations to their children?
Do clergy, teachers and politicians who suffered because of their beliefs and ideologies, or were discriminated against for any reason that no longer exists, have the right to impose them on their followers, students or voters? Do they have the right to rewrite history or to use past ills, perpetuating them in the name of personal or sectarian interests, persecuting or devastating those who do not share their ideas or refuse to be used as a mass to be manipulated?
Those who do this do not want the cure of diseases or the healing of wounds! They prefer to keep them chronic and corroded for their own benefit. Yet outside this scenario, they also have their own "courts of miracles", in which discourses of victimhood, hatred or resentment transform themselves into personal advantages, generally paid for by what is taken from others, in good or bad faith.
Humanity has evolved to the exact extent that it has overcome conflicts, not by perpetuating them.
The phrase of uncertain authorship: "In war, the first casualty is truth", summarizes how narratives dominate conflicts or mask the true intentions of their protagonists.
These use indoctrination, jingoism, the "siren song", false heroes and "pied pipers", to profit from people's despair and from the purity and innocence of the young, inciting them to fight and even die for their "causes", manipulated as disposable pieces of a power project.
Even if victorious, the resulting wounds and sores will make chronic the desires for revenge or to profit from the victim status of circumstances. This includes perpetuating guilt and debts to be paid across generations. Furthermore, the way in which power will come to be maintained will give rise to new conflicts and constant tensions, sometimes fought with the same means that motivated the revolts. It is a vicious circle!
Our young people need to be prepared to seek a better future for humanity. To do so, they cannot be conditioned to believe that they are guilty of the errors of the past, to suffer for what they did not live through, or to be urged to repeat what did not work, in the name of prophets of chaos and discord, those who truly profit from the ills of the world.
The "miracles" and "utopias" they try to impose are nothing more than proof that their lives have been devoted to ideas and purposes that have never done good to others. Millions have had their lives destroyed or cut short, with effects that transcended their generations, perpetuating this holocaust maintained by the insane and their followers.
``` ```htmlThese malicious hypocrites do not seek the evolution of humanity, but its decline for their own benefit.
Adilson Luiz Gonçalves
Writer, Engineer, University Researcher and member of the Santos Academy of Letters
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