Neutral way of thinking

This article was inspired by the recent "division" in Brazil's politics, more precisely the battle between the Left and the 'new' Right and how I ,as an artist, find myself in all this mess.

I said 'new', because personally I didn't experience any true (liberal) right wing aproach since 1995, the year I came back from Japan (lived there for 5 years in my childhood). Actually the idea of reviewing what capitalism truely is, why entrepreneurs are not the villains and why we cannot depend on the state is still too fresh and new in Brazil to begin with. Even for me, that had contact with liberalism/libertarianism just last year (I'm actually a "Neutral", but I'll explain it later).

For many years, my contact with politics was almost zero. I read news, I watched tv, but more importantly, I knew art, and artists. And they do speak about politics.

I always thought that some of those artists were very intelligent and kinda upset people who tried to critisize what was wrong in the world with quality art, be it drawn, written, spoken, through dancing, through music, of all types and shapes possible.

But, the truth is that the majority of those artist have a bias... to the Left.

There's no problem in being Left or Right per se, though. The real problem happens when these people think that the ONLY way is the Left.

Well, after 13 years living on the Left in the government (8 years of Lula and 8 of Dilma Rouseff, both from 'PT', or the Workers Party) and all the shit that happened after all these years, from extreme increase in violence to one of the biggest crisis in our recent history... I wanted to see, and try, other ideas.

Since my teenage days, I was kinda lost (as an adult, not anymore), kinda neutral, kinda observing of my surroundings, and for many factors, I always liked to see all sides, understand all viewpoints, while not being brainwashed by any ideology, keeping me as neutral as I could. Neutral, not "above the wall", as brazilians like to say ("em cima do muro"); I don't choose sides for being lost, I just like to see the world as a whole, not in parts.

So it was difficult to wrap my mind around the fact that so many artists, that I thought were very open minded people, actually are not.

You know the usual bit: SJW, PC culture, "left is love", etc.

Yesterday the new liberal-right-wing Jair Bolsonaro won the 2018 brazilian election for presidency and, as expected, artists started throwing nonsense here and there on social media (Facebook is the mecca for all the left artists, cause everything I saw was artists supporting for the left in this entire month).

Imagine the scenario, where the ex-president lula, in Jail, having support from 45% of the population, many artists among them, while attacking Bolsonaro almost like he's the reincarnation of Hitler himself. I don't support any politician, but even for a neutral, it was really funny and bizarre seeing everything on TV, Youtube, Facebook, etc. 

Luckly Youtube is kinda neutral, at least for me, so I could see what was really happening among so many Fake News, so many Bias. For many brazilians, it was Whatsapp, more used than Facebook here.

Luckly things evolved so that I could get information that really mattered, with enough trust, from many sources that hopely are not controled by interests and greed.

Luckly there're places like Youtube (even though it still have its troubles), like Minds (where I feel I finally can speak my mind without fear), like Instagram (not in the sense of neutrality, but in the sense that all I want for now is follow good art, and good artists, without politics involved; and 90% of the time all I see is good old art).

And luckly I find myself less and less in Facebook, where there's bias, there's PC culture, there're artists posting more about politics and less about art.

I hope Brazil grows as it finally embraces capitalism, free market and stuff. Not the most perfect system, but an alternative that I never saw here in my country. And maybe, one day, I could say I'm truely proud of being brazilian!

If Bolsonaro, or the Right, fails, let's just keep trying new ideas. Lately Anarcho-Capitalism looks promissing to me, although I think I won't live enough to see it myself.