Curiosidade do dia

Em 2008 escrevi sobre os ninivitas, gente diferente dos portugueses.

"Unwise societies (think Nineveh) take the fact of their traditions and accrued resources for granted. They live unconsciously on the wealth of the past, narcissistically and destructively consuming more than they earn; even irresponsibly destroying the very spirit whose activity gave rise to the wealth in question. We can regard the wealth offered to us by past and nature alike as our entitlement, even our earned due, and act far too casually and carelessly in consequence, despising our birthright and its source: privilege. This is exactly what is portrayed in the Enuma elish, the genesis tale of the ancient Mesopotamians: the careless inhabitants of the first creation kill their father, Apsu, and attempt to live upon or within his dead corpse. Something in the same vein is portrayed in the Disney movie Pinocchio. Midway through the movie, Geppetto, the benevolent father of the movie's marionette/hero, finds himself trapped in the belly of a whale, with no real explanation for his predicament offered by the filmmakers - except, by implication, that the desperate patriarch is willing to search everywhere for his missing son. The carpenter/father's loss of the son is equivalent in meaning to Jonah's loss of his living voice, as the son is traditionally the active agent of the father-the eyes or voice of the father; the spirit of what otherwise might be stultified or static tradition. The carpenter/father's loss of the son, and his consequent grief, is a representation of the longing of God for a true covenant or relationship with man. Are we not in fact the cocreators of this realm - and, perhaps, of heaven itself? We can certainly create hell alone. What could we do if we were instead aligned with the highest we could imagine?"

Trecho retirado de “We Who Wrestle with God" de Jordan B. Peterson.