As notícias do smog moscovita e do smog em São Pedro do Sul durante as enormes cheias no Pakistão e pouco tempo depois das brutais cheias na China, fizeram-me lembrar mais uma vez as razões para ter vindo para a Noruega. Esta é a terra de Jørgen Randers e de Gro Harlem Brundtland. Aqui ainda vive um dos últimos povos indígenas da Europa: os Sami. A cultura norueguesa possui diversos traços que permitem antever uma capacidade para trabalhar em colectivo bastante melhor que a portuguesa. No entanto, estão a morrer os últimos que conhecem o significado da palavra "austeridade". A perspectiva não é boa. Ainda por cima acabo de ler o seguinte texto de endgame.
The first step in taking down civilization is to realize in our own hearts and minds that the dictionaries lied to us, that civilization is not "a high stage of social and cultural development", or "a developed or advanced state of human society". I am not talking about convincing some hypothetical mass movement of people, which will not happen within this culture. As I said earlier, when fathers are raping daughters, when lovers are beating those they purport to love, there is no hope for the salmon. I am talking about me realizing this in my own heart, and you realizing it in yours.
The next step in taking down civilization is finding a few other people who feel the same. It is hard enough to take on this entire abusive social structure -- where everything is set up to protect the abusers -- without having to fight our friends as well. It can be lifesaving to have friends who will say, and mean,with courage, love, and determination glistening in their eyes, "Yes, it is unacceptable to me that salmon be exterminated from this river. I will do what it takes to save them". I am talking about small groups of people -- small enough to know and trust each other with your very lives -- coming to this understanding, and beginning to act upon it.
Os meus amigos não são assim tão bons mas mesmo assim, ao fim de um mês de estar nesta terra, tenho saudade deles.
