George Bush on September 11, 2001

George Bush on September 11, 2001

Would anyone have any doubt that the President of the United States, George Bush Jr., would have been on the AA airline plane that crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, on September 11, 2001, if instead of being born in Texas, in the United States, George Bush had been born in Afghanistan?

What makes George Bush a terrorist is the civilization in which he was born, regardless of his DNA or skin color, but only his geographical origin. Just as all Muslim boys think in a way that is conditioned by the ideas of their society, just as rich boys from Texas like George Bush only care about the next Texas night out in Houston, watered down and fertilized by lots of beer and lots of girls smoking marijuana, and when they reach adulthood, they have no alternative but to follow the political path of their genetic ancestry.

There is a social determinism that shapes the future and limits people's life choices anywhere on the globe.

Had I been born a woman and had lesbian tendencies due to excess testosterone or had a genetic chromosomal anomaly XXY, I would have had a very difficult life trying to tame my homosexual impulses in this society that has sexual behavior patterns that do not accommodate the need for deviations from the bell curve of the Gaussian probability distribution, outside the standard deviation or the expected variance in the normal curve of random events within the theory of large numbers, inexorable.

There is a strict degree of freedom for each person in humanity within the limitations given by the circumstances given by the inexorable conjunctural conditions given by the social, political, economic, geographic, climatic, demographic, industrial, technological, commercial, industrial, cultural, and national structures that determine the behavior and the alternatives of choice of each person.

A simple anthropological perspective that does not necessarily have to be an alterity, the ability to put oneself in the other person's shoes impartially, social and individual empathy that is the only way to understand and comprehend humanity without being blind to the justifications, at least for the act that is not at all random or insane when the other person reacts to an offense that can only be felt by the offended party.

The little George Bush born in Afghanistan would certainly have been on board one of the suicide planes on that September 11, 2001 that launched themselves with all the fury and hatred against the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan New York with all his courage and nationalism if he had been an Afghan boy.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político