Arquivo para January 10th, 2025
Voices in the desert
10
Jan
In times of crisis there are a small number of 
voices that see beyond the clashing forces, neither the apocalyptic nor the integrated (as Umberto Eco would say), but those who understand the panorama and the roots of the temporal crises and go beyond the temporal, they see the divine civilization.
Dostoevsky’s figure of the idiot is one of these figures who saw a crisis in the society of the time, a decadent feudalism in Russia, and imagined a society with ethics and morals, not just a structural change, but a change in the way of seeing society and the Other.
The integrated people who live under the dominion of ideas that have already been proven to be outdated, almost all of which come from European idealism, which imagined an eternal peace (Kant) without understanding the basis of the conflicts, which was a vision of a warlike and intercessory state in everyday life.
David Flusser’s analysis of the social situation at the time of Jesus in the first century of the Christian era is also similar. His book Jesus deals with the social, political and religious conflicts of the time, and as a Jew he paints a visionary picture of Jesus at the time.
A true prophecy was coming true, and the prophet Isaiah spoke well before that time about a prophet who would come (the last and the greatest, therefore true) according to Mark (Mk 1:2-3): “Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you to prepare your way. This is the voice of him who cries out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his highways straight! “.
John the Baptist was the “idiot” of his time, few understood clearly what he was saying about the coming of the Messiah, some wanted to interpret him politically as a warrior-savior and others as a madman who lived in the desert feeding on honey and locusts.
The religious and apocalyptic people of our time are incapable of understanding him and that’s why they are Pharisees and false prophets. In the midst of a crisis, they announce riches and abundance that are unattainable for the simple people who are exploited by them.
Saviors of the homeland are different from saviors who prepare a divine path for a post-war, post-crisis, post-religious warmongering future and from “partners” (in reference to Paul Ricoeur mentioned in previous posts), we need a worldview that clearly sees the cardinal virtues and does not separate justice and wisdom from them).
