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Friday, September 27, 2019

Conservative Analysis of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s UN Speech in 2019


Conservative Analysis of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s UN Speech in 2019

By Julio Severo
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro delivered the opening speech of the 74th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York, United States, on September 24, 2019. His speech had several important points from the conservative viewpoint. I will highlight the points that I think are the most important.
“I present to you a new Brazil that resurfaces after being on the brink of socialism,” said Bolsonaro, adding, “My country was very close to socialism.”
Although his view of a Brazil close to socialism would be a Brazil similar to Cuba, it is noteworthy that it went unnoticed to Bolsonaro that his education minister promised to create more day care centers than previous socialist administrations in Brazil. More day care means more state power over children and less parental influence. This is socialism, although palatable to those who do not understand what socialism really is.
Bolsonaro’s criticism of Cuba’s communist dictatorship deserves praise. He said:
“In 2013, an agreement between the socialist Workers’ Party administration and the Cuban dictatorship brought to Brazil 10,000 doctors without any professional verification. They were prevented from bringing spouses and children, had 75% of their wages confiscated by the Cuban regime and were prevented from enjoying fundamental rights, such as coming and going. Real slave work, believe me… Backed by human rights groups from Brazil and the UN.”
Bolsonaro’s stance on Cuba was 100 percent conservative.
Bolsonaro also exposed the fruits of Venezuelan socialism:
“In Venezuela, these agents of the Cuban regime, taken by Hugo Chávez, have also arrived and today there are approximately 60,000 and they control and interfere in all areas of local society, especially in intelligence and defense. Venezuela, once a thriving and democratic country, today is experiencing the cruelty of socialism. Socialism is working in Venezuela! All of them are poor and without freedom! Brazil also feels the impacts of the Venezuelan dictatorship. Of the more than 4 million who fled the country, a part migrated to Brazil, fleeing hunger and violence. We have done our part to help them through the Welcomed Operation by the Brazilian Army and praised worldwide.”
Bolsonaro’s stance on Venezuela was 100 percent conservative.
But one point ignored by Bolsonaro was that both Cuba and Venezuela are overwhelmingly Catholic countries. Venezuela is 97 percent Catholic. It was impossible for socialism to dominate Venezuela without the help of the Catholic Church.
In fact, when Hugo Chavez, who was a military man, came to power, even Bolsonaro supported him, knowing that he was a socialist.
Brazil has only escaped socialism because 30 percent of its population is evangelical and they continue to grow. Most evangelical churches have an aversion to socialism, especially its policies of abortion and homosexuality.
Bolsonaro’s UN speech then said:
“The São Paulo Forum [Foro de São Paulo], a criminal organization created in 1990 by Fidel Castro, Lula and Hugo Chavez to spread and implement socialism in Latin America, is still alive and has to be fought.”
Such thinking is a copy of ideas preached by Olavo de Carvalho, who has had such a devastating influence on Bolsonaro that it earned him the nickname “Bolsonaro’s Rasputin.”
It is an exaggerated idea to think that a leftist group of poor socialist nations called the São Paulo Forum would be a greater international threat than communist China, which has the largest communist army in the world.
In fact, the one who most funded Hugo Chavez’s socialist project was the United States, the largest purchaser of Venezuelan oil throughout Chavez’s dictatorship. Oil was the most exported Venezuelan product and by being the largest buyer of this product the U.S. under Bush and Obama financed Chavez’s revolution.
The problem with Bolsonaro following Olavo de Carvalho’s ideas is that he has many similar ideas that look more like conspiracy theories. Carvalho thinks that smoking does no harm and that tobacco industries are victims of media disinformation propaganda.
Carvalho also defends the theory that no Jew was tortured and killed by the Catholic Inquisition, which for him was a sheer lie and invention of Protestants.
Although the Flat Earth theory is usually viewed as a scientific aberration, Carvalho attempts to reconcile his pose as a philosopher with a passionate closeness to the Flat Earth theory while attacking the idea that the Earth is a spherical globe.
Therefore, it is impossible to see in the universe of Carvalho the São Paulo Forum disconnected from his other showy theories.
Bolsonaro also said: “It is a fallacy to say that the Amazon is a world heritage site.” It was a nationalistic and patriotic point. It was a conservative stance. Americans and Europeans have big interests in the Amazon.
Incidentally, NSSM 200, a document made by the CIA to use family planning and feminism to reduce the population of various countries for the benefit of the U.S. government, was not attacked and not even mentioned by Bolsonaro. NSSM 200, which was drafted by President Gerald Ford’s conservative Republican administration in 1974, made Brazil one of the top priorities for suffering U.S. population control policies.
The conservative Republican mindset in the 1970s was that by reducing the Brazilian population there would be fewer people to use Brazilian natural resources, including from the Amazon. Result: These resources would be stored for U.S. use.
During the military rule, Brazil began to swallow the NSSM 200 trap, and today population control policies have become so normal in Brazil that Bolsonaro himself has openly advocated various birth control measures to reduce poor populations.
The largest pro-abortion organization in the world is the Planned Parenthood Federation, whose Brazilian branch, BEMFAM (Civil Society for Family Well-Being), was established under the military rule. Thus, while the military administration was fighting communism, a powerful American group settled on Brazilian soil to promote the largest anti-family agenda in Brazil’s history.
Receiving money from the U.S. government, the Planned Parenthood Federation has for decades been promoting abortion, contraception and the homosexual agenda, which functions today under the guise of gender ideology.
BEMFAM, which receives money from the U.S. government through USAID, has been working since 1966 to implement the U.S. population control agenda in Brazil. USAID also participated in the drafting of NSSM 200. In the 1990s, BEMFAM distributed to educators throughout Brazil a handbook convincing Brazilian authorities of the need for a sex education conducive to family destruction and homosexual ideology. The handbook was not printed in Cuba. It was printed in the official printing press of the U.S. government during the Bush presidency. How would the conservative Republican Bush administration not collaborate with Planned Parenthood and BEMFAM when their goals are perfectly aligned with NSSM 200?
It cannot be said that the CIA and U.S. Republican administrations have changed their mindset and intentions regarding obtaining raw materials from other countries at the expense of drastic population reductions.
At least for me, as an evangelical, the only kind of relationship you can have between Brazil and the U.S. on the basis of trust is with evangelicals, who have no U.S. government-backed Planned Parenthood and no population-control policy. Conservative American evangelicals are the most trusted Americans.
While the U.S. took advantage of Brazil’s anti-communist military climate to bring in Billy Graham and Rex Humbard, U.S. groups, mainly Planned Parenthood and several large pro-abortion foundations, entered Brazil to inject anti-family culture.
Considering NSSM 200, Brazil’s relationship with the U.S. should be cautious, especially with the U.S. government. John Perkins, who worked as an economic hit man for the U.S. government, revealed in his book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” that in the 1970s several military governments around the world obtained multi-million-dollar loans to build huge hydroelectric dams, ending in equally huge debt. These countries received malicious advice from U.S. economic killers. Brazil was one of them.
NSSM 200 is much worse than the São Paulo Forum. But while the conspiracy theory of a lover of smoking and the Inquisition gets spotlight from a Brazilian president, NSSM 200, which has drastically reduced Brazil’s population, gets no spotlight.
Brazil is experiencing an accelerated demographic aging, with the birth of babies decreasing year after year. The U.S. and Europe only suffered a demographic aging after experiencing abundant prosperity. But Brazil is already aging demographically long before it reaches the level of prosperity of Europe and the U.S. This demographic aging seriously threatening Brazil’s future and prosperity was all planned in NSSM 200 in 1974. Brazil is a victim of the CIA’s population control policy and an American government under the leadership of the Republican Party.
Thanks to NSSM 200, Brazil’s demographic suffering is granted for the future.
Although Bolsonaro is not the first Brazilian president to attack socialism, no Brazilian president has ever attacked NSSM 200 and its violation of Brazilian sovereignty.
Brazil’s foreign debt during the military rule (1964-1985) grew so much, with the help of U.S. economic hit men, that it was the breeding ground for the left to move forward. And it did move forward.
Although Bolsonaro indicated that the socialism of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff destroyed the economy of Brazil, actually even before these two socialists became presidents of Brazil, Bolsonaro himself confessed that he was evading all taxes he could, because historically, even without any socialism, taxes in Brazil are exorbitant. For example, during the military rule that was anti-communist, the Brazilian people who could afford to buy a car paid half the value just in taxes. A telephone line was as expensive as a house.
Exorbitant taxes on cars and phone lines look like socialism, but it is not. It was just the military rule continuing the old tradition of high taxes in Brazil.
Another important point in Bolsonaro’s speech was to treat Indians as humans, not as zoo animals, as they are usually treated by environmentalists and leftists. Bolsonaro said:
“Unfortunately, some people inside and outside Brazil, supported by NGOs, insist on treating and keeping our Indians as true cavemen.”
It was a 100 percent conservative stance.
Bolsonaro also undid a serious injustice of leftist governments that welcomed communist terrorists. Bolsonaro said:
“In my administration, Italian terrorist Cesare Battisti fled Brazil, was arrested in Bolivia and extradited to Italy. Three other Paraguayan terrorists and one Chilean terrorist, who lived in Brazil as political refugees, were also returned to their countries. Terrorists under the guise of persecuted politicians will no longer find refuge in Brazil.”
It was a 100 percent conservative stance.
Bolsonaro’s speech also dealt with religious persecution, but leveling all religions — Christianity, Judaism, and Islam — as if they all suffered equal attacks. It was a generalizing and politically correct speech. He said:
“In recent years, we have witnessed, in different regions, cowardly attacks that have victimized the faithful gathered in churches, synagogues and mosques. Brazil strongly condemns all these acts and stands ready to collaborate with other countries to protect those who are oppressed because of their faith. Of particular concern to the Brazilian people is the increasing persecution, discrimination and violence against missionaries and religious minorities in different regions of the world. That is why we support the creation of the ‘International Memorial Day for Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief.’”
Putting Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as equal victims of religious persecution is a huge disfavor to Christians, who by far suffer about 100,000 martyrs in the hands of Muslims alone. If anyone can show that 100,000 Muslims are martyred by Christians a year, I will fully support Bolsonaro’s politically correct speech of placing all religions as equal victims of religious persecution.
It was not a conservative stance.
Perhaps realizing the specific absence of Christians, Bolsonaro later cited them as victims of religious persecution, but making it clear that other religions are also victims. He said:
“It is unacceptable that in the 21st century, with so many laws, treaties and organizations to safeguard rights of all kinds, there are still millions of Christians and people of other religions losing their lives or their liberty because of of their faith.”
Bolsonaro’s speech gave importance to the partnerships his government is seeking through international visits. Bolsonaro said:
“These visits will strengthen friendship and deepen relations with Japan, China, Saudi Arabia.”
Partnership with Japan is a laudable attitude. The Japanese people are democratic and hardworking. But China is a communist dictatorship that persecutes Christians violently. If Bolsonaro is so serious against communism, why partner with the largest communist country in the world?
Bolsonaro does not want to partner with poor communist nations like Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela, but does he open his arms to rich communist nations like China?
And why partner with Saudi Arabia, which bans the Bible on its territory and persecutes Christians? In addition, Sunni Islam followed by the Saudis is behind ISIS and most Christian killings.
Another very important point is that if Bolsonaro is concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, why has he shown no concern about the biggest current humanitarian crisis, which is the Yemeni population starving and dying of bombing from Saudi Arabia with American weapons? In this crisis, thousands of Yemeni children are dying.
Why does Bolsonaro want to partner with Saudi Arabia, the great Islamic “Venezuela” in the Middle East?
China systematically persecutes and kills Christians. Saudi Arabia also kills them. Venezuela, with all its socialist problems, has no Chinese and Saudi history of persecution of Christians. However, Bolsonaro prefers partnership with China and Saudi Arabia, not Venezuela.
It would make no sense for Bolsonaro to partner with Venezuela and condemn China and Saudi Arabia, or vice versa. To be consistent, he should condemn Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for human rights violations. To be consistent, he should condemn China and Venezuela for communist dictatorship.
Studying for many years the issue of persecution of Christians, I do not understand the attitude of Bolsonaro, who says he is concerned about religious persecution but wants to partner with great persecutors of Christians.
Sunni Islam from Saudi Arabia is far more dangerous than the São Paulo Forum, but how will Rasputin say otherwise, or advise his poor victim Bolsonaro to the contrary, when he himself has already received a Saudi award for a biography of Muhammad that he wrote?
At a very important point, Bolsonaro’s speech attempted to address directly the issue of gender ideology or homosexual ideology. But all he could do was to talk about these problems without directly citing gender ideology or homosexual ideology. He said:
“Over the past few decades, we have been seduced, without realizing it, by ideological systems of thought that sought not truth but absolute power. Ideology has settled in the field of culture, education and the media, dominating the media, universities and schools. Ideology has invaded our homes to attack the mater cell of any healthy society, the family. They are still trying to destroy the innocence of our children, perverting even their most basic and elemental identity, the biological one.”
If he could clearly mention São Paulo Forum, why not more clearly gender ideology or homosexual ideology?
Indirectly, Bolsonaro’s speech attributed exclusively to socialism the negative changes in society and family. These changes include the homosexual and abortion ideology.
But if Bolsonaro had read NSSM 200, which I read nearly 30 years ago, he would understand that many of these changes were projected not only by socialism, but also by the CIA and U.S. Republican administrations in their eagerness to reduce Brazil’s population to grab the Brazilian natural resources. If Bolsonaro had read NSSM 200 he would never have advocated population control policies that underlie the systematic destruction of the family today.
Trying to attribute to the São Paulo Forum, not to NSSM 200, the anti-family system that has been in place in Brazil since the beginning of the military rule is sheer smoke screen.
Concluding, Bolsonaro’s speech said:
“In matters of climate, democracy, human rights, equality of rights and duties between men and women, and so many others, all we need is this: to contemplate the truth, following John 8:32: ‘And you know the truth, and the truth you shall make free.’”
Sometimes Bolsonaro quotes biblical verses, probably because of the influence of his evangelical wife. The Bible is a good influence. But the other influences on Bolsonaro’s life are not so good and often prevent him from having a serious perspective on reality.
The reality is: The UN is worse than the São Paulo Forum. China is worse than the Sãoo Paulo Forum. NSSM 200 is worse than the São Paulo Forum.
If Bolsonaro does not see this reality, his upcoming UN speeches may say that smoking does no harm, that the Inquisition is a victim of the lies of Jewish and Protestant historians and that the Earth is flat.
However, the Bolsonaro team, especially Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo and Bolsonaro’s special adviser, Filipe G. Martins, has been seeking to camouflage the stances guided by them in the Bolsonaro administration as Trump’s stances. Martins, who helped write Bolsonaro’s speech at the UN, said of the speech:
“The media is wondering if there was any coordination between President Bolsonaro and President Trump’s teams, due to the convergence of ideas and values observed in their speech. This convergence is not the result of prior coordination, but the fellowship of perennial values.”
“Perennial” has several meanings, but those who are connected to the perennialist movement only use it to mean their own causes. The perennialist movement is linked to the Islamic occultist René Guénon, promoted in Brazil for decades by Olavo de Carvalho, whose adherents follow perennialism.
Martins, who is a Carvalho adherent, is not a pioneer in linking Trump to perennialism and traditionalism. Prior to becoming Foreign Minister, Araujo authored a diplomatic document entitled “Trump and the West.” However, he praised Trump not because Trump is Trump, but because for him Trump embodies the soul of Steve Bannon’s values, who is a Guénon adherent.
For Araújo, Trump is the result of the values of Bannon and Guénon.
However, Trump eventually expelled Bannon calling him an opportunist and traitor. Unintentionally, by giving this classification to Bannon, Trump correctly identified the nature of Guenonians and perennialists.
Not even perennialists can stand other perennialists. In 2017, Carvalho did a diagnosis fitting all perennialists and Guenonians, including himself. He said, “It’s not a problem but I’ve rarely met people as sophisticatedly false and lying as in the so-called ‘perennialist’ environment.”
Araujo, as an adherent of Carvalho and Guénon, only used Trump in his document as an instrument for his Guenonian or perennialist revolution. Not unlike Bannon, who in 2016 described “Trump as a ‘blunt instrument for us.’” The “us” means the Guenonian or perennialist movement.
Yet, Trump was able in time to identify the opportunistic and treacherous nature of Guenonian Bannon. Bolsonaro has not yet reached this point of discernment. That’s why he has given much opportunity for Guenonians and perennialists like Araújo and Martins to use Bolsonaro for their revolution and talk about “fellowship of perennial values.” They are hijacking the victory that evangelicals gave Bolsonaro to advance perennialism or Guenonianism.
They know very clearly that what guides the Bolsonaro administration, which is guided by them, is not Christian values. These are perennial values, of perennialism. In fact, they use Christian values to exalt perennial or Guenonian values.
In their revolution one sees the same opportunism and betrayal of Bannon against Trump.
For Araújo and Martins, Bolsonaro is just an instrument for perennialism or for the values of Guénon or Carvalho.
If Bolsonaro does not wake up in time, his upcoming UN speeches may say that Brazil has been saved by perennial or Guenonian values.
With information from Agência Brasil.
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Monday, May 28, 2018

“Right-Wing” Philosopher with a Sophisticatedly False and Lying Bifurcated Tongue


“Right-Wing” Philosopher with a Sophisticatedly False and Lying Bifurcated Tongue

By Julio Severo
“I am not aligned to the right, but I have not changed my conviction that in a healthy nation there should be a left and a right, both entitled to an equal share of radicalism,” said Olavo de Carvalho, who, although having a low leftist behavior and language, is treated by his adherents, called “olavetes,” as the greatest right-wing leader in Brazil.
“I’m not a right-winger, nor a left-winger, nor a fuck,” he said too.
“I am not aligned to the right, but I have not changed my conviction that in a healthy nation there should be a left and a right, both entitled to an equal share of radicalism.”
After all, is Carvalho a right-winger or left-winger? Is he a Catholic or an occultist? Is he an astrologer or not? Is he a philosopher or not? Does he promote or attack René Guénon and the New Age?
“I’m not a right-winger, nor a left-winger, nor a fuck.”
Olavetes themselves get confused when trying to define him, because his comments often seem to point clearly in one direction… but carry sophisticated insinuations that sabotage the alleged clarity, pointing to other, even contrary, directions.
Quite different from the evangelical simplicity, which follows the words of Jesus, who said:
“Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.” (Matthew 5:37 NIV)
“Just say ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ When you manipulate words to get your own way, you go wrong.” (Matthew 5:37 Message)
Recently, Carvalho said that the evangelical simplicity is the “most abominable thing in the world.” It is understandable why he abhors evangelical simplicity: he values the sophisticated manipulation of words, making his supposed rightistism as leftism and vice versa.
As the forked tongue of the serpent goes in two directions, Carvalho’s words often go in two directions. They go on “yes” and “no” simultaneously. At the same time he says that the Islamic sorcerer René Guénon is not recommended, he does not cease to exalt him. Guénon, who founded the Traditionalist School, which is esoteric and anti-Marxist in nature, is the spiritual father of two bifurcated right-wingers: Olavo de Carvalho and Aleksander Dugin, who were fundamentally influenced by the Traditionalist School.
Guénon, who was a master of bifurcations, was also one of the greatest promoters of perennialism, which seeks by philosophy to unite the conservatism of all religions. It is essentially New Age.
Carvalho and Dugin are considered great figures within perennialism, although Carvalho, with its bifurcated tongue, feigns distance. In 2017, Carvalho said, “It’s not a problem but I’ve rarely met people as sophisticatedly false and lying as in the so-called ‘perennialist’ environment.”
“It’s not a problem but I’ve rarely met people as sophisticatedly false and lying as in the so-called ‘perennialist’ environment.”
“Sophisticatedly false and lying people” is another term for people with a bifurcated tongue!
This makes Guénon and his adherents charlatans — a term which, according to the Brazil’s Michaelis Dictionary, means “one who exploits the good faith of the public. Individual with pretensions, usually blatant, of knowledge and skills.”
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the most famous US dictionary, defines charlatan as “a person who falsely pretends to know or be something in order to deceive people” and “one making usually showy pretenses to knowledge or ability.”
The Oxford Dictionary, England’s most famous, defines charlatan as “a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill.”
I call charlatans bifurcated-tongue individuals. Carvalho simply calls them “sophisticatedly false and lying people.”
However, when mentioning that the Protestant writer C. S. Lewis called Guénon a charlatan, Carvalho readily defended the founder of the Traditionalist School, declaring, with his bifurcated tongue, that “Guénon was never a charlatan.”
In this perspective, Carvalho and Dugin were never charlatans either. It can also be said that Carvalho was never an astrologer, occultist, esoteric, perennialist, neocon, traditionalist and René Guénon’s main disciple in Brazil.
Actually, perennialist philosophers are sophisticated false and liars!
The great surprise is how their bifurcated smooth talk deceives crowds of shallow Catholics and some shallow Protestants with the propaganda of philosophy, traditionalism, conservatism, anti-Marxism, etc. Carvalho’s adherents praise him as Brazil’s biggest right-winger. Dugin’s adherents praise him as Russia’s biggest right-winger.
For those who think Carvalho is the father of a new right in Brazil, consisting of olavetes, Carvalho’s own bifurcated tongue responds, “I do not know what the new right is. I want them to screw. It’s a bunch of swindlers,” in an interview with Folha de S. Paulo, a newspaper he loathes as left-wing, but he does not miss a single opportunity to be interviewed by them. To abhor and accept at the same time is a bifurcated attitude.
Does anyone doubt that olavetes are a bunch of swindlers? Carvalho’s bifurcated answer only confirms what many have already realized.
"That’s why when I am introduced as a ‘conservative philosopher,’ the only answer I can think of is: ‘Conservative is the bitch who gave birth to you, who kept you in her belly for nine months instead of letting you fall into the toilet.’”
“If the Brazilian right accepts as a ‘leader’ anyone that the mainstream media presents to him as such, the future of the left is guaranteed,” said Carvalho, whom the Brazilian mainstream media, including Folha de S. Paulo, presents as the “leader” of the Brazilian right. His bifurcated tongue sometimes backfires.
“If the Brazilian right accepts as a ‘leader’ anyone that the mainstream media presents to him as such, the future of the left is guaranteed.”
Other bifurcated comments by Carvalho:
* “The right is full of pure mentally sick people.”
"That’s why when I am introduced as a ‘conservative philosopher,’ the only answer I can think of is: ‘Conservative is the bitch who gave birth to you, who kept you in her belly for nine months instead of letting you fall into the toilet.’”
* “The stupidity of others is the scourge of my life, but it is also my source of sustenance.”
The advocacy of the Inquisition, which tortured and killed Jews and Protestants, is sheer mental illness. And if Carvalho’s right is now filled with these mentally sick individuals — advocates of the Inquisition — it is thanks to the perennialist philosopher Carvalho, who is the greatest advocate of the Inquisition in Brazil. At the same time that he causes mental illness, he accuses those who became mentally ill under his influence. A bifurcated attitude.
“The right is full of pure mentally sick people.”
Injecting the revisionism of the Inquisition into the Brazilian right, especially among shallow Catholics, was a great “triumph” for the degradation of the Brazilian conservatism. But Carvalho blames others for this degradation. He said, “If I only knew the shit the Brazilian right would turn out with the assistance of… Julios Severos.”
“If I only knew the shit the Brazilian right would turn out with the assistance of… Julios Severos.”
Why does he feign concern about the right if his bifurcated tongue has already said that he is neither a right-winger nor a left-winger? Why does he indoctrinate his olavetes to repeat the mantra that he broke the hegemony of the Brazilian left when reality, based on facts, shows that this hegemony was broken by evangelicals?
No wonder he says that the evangelical simplicity is the “most abominable thing in the world.” His revolt is justified, for he knows what every leftist knows: the main merit of resistance to the Brazilian left belongs to evangelicals, especially televangelists. In fact, even the institute that he has in the US is the fruit of John Haskins, an American Protestant who long ago apostatized his church. Haskins founded the Inter-American Institute and brought together Protestants and Catholics.
Carvalho’s only merit is to awaken activists for the revisionism of the Inquisition. What is left is ideological plagiarism. His geopolitical view, for example, is clearly neocon in nature.
However, mantra and hypnosis gain such control of the mind that some give him merit for everything, repeating untruths without realizing it.
In no way did I help to inflame the mental illness and degradation that you see today in Carvalho’s right. My conservatism has a good foundation: the influence of conservative evangelicals in the United States. This influence in my life came decades before I knew that there was in Brazil an astrologer called Olavo de Carvalho.
Carvalho already even said of me: “The traditionalist environment is filled with disciples of Julio Severo.” That is, he accused me exactly of what he has. The traditionalist environment, a result of the Traditionalist School of the Islamic sorcerer René Guénon, is filled of anti-Marxist occultists, astrologers, sorcerers and esotericists who follow Carvalho and Dugin.
Thank God, I did not allow myself to be duped and degradated by Carvalho’s Guenian traditionalism. I did not become one of the many mentally sick individuals that his cult has been producing.
“The stupidity of others is the scourge of my life, but it is also my source of sustenance.”
If the Brazilian right is filled of donkeys and mentally sick people, as Carvalho has accused, it’s all his fault, because he’s been exploiting them for years to fill his pockets. Translating Carvalho’s bifurcated statement: “The stupidity of Catholics and evangelicals is the scourge of my life, because not all Catholics accept my supreme wisdom and most evangelicals distrust the occult nature of my knowledge, but those who come to me become my source of livelihood.”
Even so, he has managed to dupe many Catholics and some evangelicals, who have paid monthly fees to get duped and spiritually degradated through the course his bifurcated smooth talk sells as pure “philosophy.”
It is not the first time in the history that philosophy is a powerful channel to deceive. Carvalho, Dugin and Guénon are not the first or the last to use philosophy to confuse, disorient and misinform with the false appearance and propaganda of guiding and informing. The Bible is very clear in its warning that philosophy has incantations and seductions, which Christians need to avoid:
“See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.” (Colossians 2:8 NIV)
“Make sure no predator makes you his prey through some misleading philosophy and empty deception based on traditions fabricated by mere mortals. These are sourced in the elementary principles originating in this world and not in the Anointed One (so don’t let their talks capture you).” (Colossians 2:8 The Voice Bible)
If you put the Bible and its Author above all else, you will have the Truth. If you put philosophy above the Bible, you will be an easy prey to sophisticatedly false and lying philosophers, charlatans and bifurcated-tongued right-wingers.
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