Underlying Donald Trump's speeches there is not, in fact, a denial of the environmental crisis, but rather an idea smacking of social Darwinism. The acceleration of global warming is fueled by unconscious desires. It can only help rich countries rid themselves of the teeming populations of parasitic children whom the many do not want to care for. UNICEF estimates the number of children in the world at 2.2 billion. Of these, 1.9 billion live in developing countries, and 600 million are victims of poverty. The living and hygiene conditions of the slums where many grow up prevent 160 million children from having enough to eat. Education remains inaccessible to 130 million children today.
The denial isn't about the climate. It's about the fact that an elite of humanity will be able to emigrate to less affected regions, to pristine islands, or even to Mars for the most ambitious conquest-minded. It's the same madness that, back when nuclear fear was at its height, led those who believe only in individual salvation to build underground shelters. This rejection of a common good that would give future generations the possibility of continuing life, this manifestation of angry men, takes us down to the depths of the human unconscious, where myth gives meaning to logos.
Cronus, the god of time (and therefore the madman of eternity), having been warned that one of his own children would dethrone him in the same way he himself had dethroned his father, swallowed them one by one, as they were born. He managed to swallow them all, except for Zeus, whom Rhea had entrusted to his mother Gaia, goddess of the earth. She substituted a large stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, which his father devoured instead. Zeus later married the Oceanid Metis, whom he persuaded to give Cronus anpowerful emetic drink. This potion, prepared by Metis (goddess of prudence) in some versions, or Gaia in others, caused Cronus to vomit up his swallowed offspring in reverse order: first the stone, followed by his five immortal children who had been growing undigested inside him. The freed siblings, along with Zeus, then waged a 10-year war called the Titanomachy against Cronus and the other Titans, eventually winning and establishing the reign of the Olympians.
In 'real" real time we are told that on December 25th Jesus and Mary were fleeing the wrath of another old man, King Herod, to whom it had been foretold that a child born on that day would dethrone him. This was the Massacre of the Holy Innocents, which remains an integral part of the Christian imagination to this day. Its historicity is generally questioned, as is that of the Flight into Egypt. But I am simply recounting the story of humanity through the lens of these legends. And this is one of those legends that grips the very core of mothers. It is said that Herod launched an army of a million men in search of Jesus, who traveled "throughout the empire," an expression that must refer to the districts of the kingdom, since the search was conducted in eighty-three (or eighty-four, according to some manuscripts) villages. The soldiers killed all the children they found there, numbering approximately 1,360 (or 1,460, according to some versions). Curiously, they did not search Bethlehem, and thus life resumed.
TODAY OLD MALES, DRUNK WITH POWER AND AFRAID OF DEATH, ARE RAGING
Do not despair: the legends tell us that their stupidity cause their fall