Murilo Jambeiro de Oliveira
Brazil, June 27, 2025.
For some time, I was living at a university with people who read a wide variety of books. I even mentioned to Magdalen College on Facebook that it occurred to me that Walter Benjamin was born on the same day as me. I had some contact with reading, for example, I remember having to read Marcuse and being at the bus stop on my way to work. But the fact is that here I lived with people whose only systematic reading material was the Bible, during my 20 years of reflection. So that was the type of reading I proposed to myself, despite the news being a habit since early childhood. As a teenager, I would buy newspapers by myself and read them all the way through.
This sometimes generates a third type of reading for me, which I call fictional, which is the adaptation of biblical texts to everyday facts, in fact a kind of almost scientific fiction.
When I have patience I write about it, scaring Muskitos, so to speak, but it is not something that involves the author so much to the point of writing long works about it, and even so I find a horrible type of reader, those I call hyenas in general. Maybe the last one, because for example the prophecy of the popes of Saint Malachy is not something official but it reaches an interesting point, curious data such as resignation happens, and even Uriel is not clearly mentioned, so I even preferred it in general, but maybe the last one is to say, let’s try to put 4 horsemen in the story, Biden, Trump, Elon, and the narrator. It’s another terrible one.
In Brazil, in recent days, attempts have been made to offer some interpretation to the established “Marco Civil da Internet” through a judgment, something like common law. An organization of case law, whether it will be persistent or will generate new legislative demand I do not yet know. I believe that the “Marco Civil da Internet” was not bad for Brazil, nor was it poorly formulated, but for example related fields of law are suffering such a great crisis that even creating a relationship as it seems to me, there are other fields of law in crisis.
It’s like complaining about the enormous interest of religious readers, to the point of disliking them and calling them hyenas, they are imaginatively poor readers. I’ve read very little of Salman Rushdie, short stories in general, but I report a similar problem many times. When your reader is poor, this is a miserable process.
For example, as I said at the Gates Foundation, my first interest in highlighting certain readings was to promote scientific press releases from Brazilian health research institutes specializing in vaccines (Fiocruz, Instituto Butantã), which would provide some comfort to the population. Later, it became this type of literature and something like criticism of Brazil’s foreign policy.
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