The power of Myth

The power of Myth

The universal astronautical union met and through a vote, there were no technical reports, Cartesian criteria, they simply decided by vote that the transuranian celestial body called Pluto would cease to be a planet, without even defining what is a planet and what is it is a satellite, so we have satellites larger than the size of the planet Mercury and the planet Pluto in the orbit of Saturn and Jupiter, an anti-methodological confusion.

Thus, a cattle herder around four thousand years ago wrote his conclusions on a sheepskin and his wonderful chronicles about the beginnings of humanity and civilization began to spread throughout his region, about people who fought against the gods, talked with the gods.

After thousands of years, the simple fact of the existence of such an ancient document in itself became proof of the authenticity and veracity of those writings, and that collection that only has time as its authority and did not undergo authentication by institutions came to be called sacred books. of teaching and research as I had to submit my monographs to obtain the degree of graduate and then master scientist in political science, whose mandatory citations are all confirmed by apuds, and footnotes, all referenced from a codex of authors referenced and recognized, on the contrary, the books of the Bible do not need to be checked by an accredited panel, they just age and gain credibility because they are very old.

I assume that in the future, 4000 years from now, people will create an extremely curious image of the habits of our civilization by analyzing television series such as Two and a half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Batman, Disney literature with talking animals.

This is exactly what parchment and papyrus scholars do who study the original language and only based on the belief that their authors had all the credentials to write and record faithfully everything that was recorded there, such as the construction of the tower of Babel to construction of Noah's ark, thus antiquity and the only thing on which they rely to authenticate the literary idylls of a band of sheepherders and hunters who bequeathed to us the sacred papyri that gave rise to all this confusion between Hamas and Netanyahu's Judaism. What a shame!

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político