Obscene death

Cemeteries are there to cover the impudence of death. Whoever dies must receive burial so that he does not return, because it causes terror. That is why Miguel de Unamuno said that we are the only animal that buries its dead.

Death causes at least two passions: horror and fascination. Normally we do not want to die or kill, but there are cultural, political, social, historical, and economic contexts in which death not only does not matter but is sought and caused. The world champions in this macabre dance are Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, who mock, call her the fluzinha, propose outrageous treatments such as injecting Mistolín and run off to play golf, as Nero sang during the fire in Rome. For these two, the absolute priority is profit and the hell, literally.

They have no sensitivity for something that is the subject of horror movies: the corpse string, the mass graves, the pile of anonymous bodies, people falling dead through the streets, taking people in agony to the morgues to save their per diem. Practical. Scenes similar to those of other plagues, like the bubonic, when carts passed looking for corpses.

I once heard a survivor of a Nazi death camp get used to horror surprisingly quickly, in hours, he said. Hannah Arendt called it the banality of evil. We see today, for example, the shoe mountains of the millions of people exterminated. When in danger, the bourgeoisie loses manners, as in Luis Buñuel's movie The Exterminating Angel. It is called fascism. Or neoliberalism, which pretends to be more decent but still kills you. And you die. But only if it kills you. Well, I got tangled up again, but do you understand me?

Pride stupefies, there you have Trump. It would be necessary to say memento mori, 'remember that you will die' to those who defy the pandemic and cause more than 100 deaths in the United States alone. Those who take offense because in Venezuela until May 000 there were only 26 deaths invent repulsive figures such as 11. Where are they hiding? And the families? I do not master the art of lying well and that is why I am quickly discovered, but I suppose there are ways to lie without making a fool of yourself.
@ rhm1947