The society that failed

Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist

The society that failed

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A lot of things went right in the US, except their lifestyle.

We have seen the rise of thematic groups trying to build a perfect society based on the concept of sustainability, it doesn't mean cars and planes powered by electricity, it's like eating sushi instead of red beef, it just makes up the problem with a cosmetic solution.

 The consumption pattern of the North Americans is so scandalously abusive and an aberration that, if it were reproduced by the inhabitants of India or China, would immediately deplete the resources of: potable water from the earth, oil, generated electricity, steel, cement, of noble metals; in short, everything we learned in school as the best indicators of progress and of a developed country was just a bad example, such as: per capita consumption of soap, per capita consumption of water, per capita consumption of paper, per capita consumption of shoes, per capita consumption of plastics, per capita consumption of fabrics, per capita consumption of wood, per capita consumption of electricity, per capita consumption of paints, per capita consumption of perfumes, per capita consumption of steel, per capita consumption of pens, per capita consumption per capita of books, per capita consumption of watches, per capita consumption of meat, per capita consumption of glass; the per capita consumption list of US citizens is astonishingly an aberration both with respect to the stock of earth's resources and with respect to the completely heterogeneous distribution of these resources across the earth's population.

There is no need to teach how the world should be self-sustainable, sponsoring an autistic girl who lives in a state with air conditioning in the houses consuming electricity in the summer and with polluting gas heaters or electricity in the winter, wood in the fireplaces and the production of clocks. one million dollars, 1000 horse power automobiles, supersonic warplanes, missiles with explosives, the best anti-aircraft guns in the world, armored fighting cars, munitions of war, while the Africans from Nigeria, from the Central African Republic, in Mozambique , in Eritrea, live according to natural resources, without abusing pesticides, toxic fertilizers, confinement of animals for slaughter, without polluting their rivers and burning their forests, but this lifestyle was labeled not sustainable, but stylish underdeveloped, backward and uncivilized.

Even to refuse their lifestyles, Europeans and neo-Europeans do not humbly admit that sustainability already exists and is in black Africa and Latin America, you can copy it, without arrogance and without the pretension of teaching Brazilians how to preserve the Amazon and the Pantanal of the Paraná River.

Brazilians, Africans and Paraguayans are grateful and can teach together how happy Africans were before the arrival of colonial, imperialist, capitalist, communist and arrogant European progress.

 

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político