Murilo Jambeiro de Oliveira
Brazil, December 9, 2024.
It was not uncommon at some point in an informal conversation to hear someone refer to this song by Joan Osborne – “One Of Us” a few years ago, at the limit I heard someone in group therapy, in fact someone who also tried an IRA song in therapy, which reminded me of historical data of a certain Catholic proletariat that also existed and still exists in Brazil, which is why the IRA Band was successful with this name at a certain historical time in Brazil, but one of two things, it is worth talking about how it is not uncommon to try to discuss this Joan Osborne song.
I have been trying to develop a discussion about optimism and pessimism, since I realized that the best expression of a country’s internal optimism is its birth rate, even if the law creates distortions. As I always say, the law does not create behaviors, or it creates distortions or only regulates behaviors.
But for example, Joan Osborne in “One Of Us” seems to have an optimistic perspective, because after all, everyone deserves to be treated well, in any circumstance, anywhere. I think that is the conclusion of Joan’s lyrics for any so-called believer, it is my “place of speech” in the interpretation of Joan. But I even like to contrast it with a supposed pessimism of U2 in “If God Will Send His Angels” that also entertains my impression of “place of speech”, because after all, no one is optimistic about their own condition at times. The “place of speech” is the issue. Joan seems to me so impersonal when one cannot be personal, and U2 becomes so personal when one cannot be impersonal, one thing for the other is unbridled pessimism to think of God on Earth sometimes. Even if he were you.
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