What happened in Brasilia and continues to happen across the country is not an internal matter for Brazil or an isolated case. These terrible facts are “only” part 2 of the script of the most important war that today torments representative democracies: information terrorism.
Using social networks, creating and distributing effective messages through a deep mastery of technology, these global terrorists, often unknown, anonymous and billionaires, represent the greatest threat facing our society today.
The exponential and unregulated development of communication tools, combined with the aging of the population and the constant impoverishment of quality journalism —that fourth power that sustains and watches over democracy and that no one talks about anymore, remember?—, is making people tremble. foundations of society.
Hordes of idle people that the consumer society first fed on and then rejected, disaffected, hyperconnected and easily manipulated people become perfect targets for manipulation. Through the spread of fake news they are a perfect weapon to be used by these extremist leaders in their planned attack on Western democracies.
The age pyramid of the rebels against the Three Powers indicates just that. The aggressors are, for the most part, middle-aged people, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, men and women who retired early, idle, wanting to talk, but with no one to listen to them.
An official document points out that, among the prisoners of the Brasília Barracks, the number of elderly people is high, and most of them need medication for continuous use. The picture couldn’t be more depressing: grandmas and grandpas, loaded with haloperidol, atrovent and rivastigmine hemitartrate, furiously attacking and destroying the symbols of democracy while their children work and their grandchildren study or look for a job.
Realizing that they missed the boat of history, they are capable of anything to escape this fate. They prefer to believe in convenient lies (denying, if necessary, even the evidence of the senses) than to accept this cruel truth that the brave new world of technology shows them: the future has no place for them.
Uncritical users of social platforms, they simultaneously and unconsciously become perfect targets for the new terrorists. Bombarded by fake news they want to believe — originated by natural evil and by artificial intelligence robots that place them, once again, at the center of history —, they feel empowered as if seeking an insane immortality.
These protesters in Brasilia, like those in the US Capitol, are not the target to be shot down. They are the most obvious symptom of a social ecosystem on the brink of default. A society in which the majority shareholders —owners of quotas, votes and social rights— do not have a say in the future is a powder keg. Is democracy not for old people?
With a wealth of experience honed over 4+ years in journalism, I bring a seasoned voice to the world of news. Currently, I work as a freelance writer and editor, always seeking new opportunities to tell compelling stories in the field of world news.
