The phrase “we are what we eat” is attributed to Hippocrates. Faithful to the teachings of the father of medicine, Jair Bolsonaro asked to be fed by delivery at his new address, the Federal Police (PF) cell, in Brasília.
“He is worried that they could do something to him here, he is not suspicious of the PF agents, but he does not know the origin of the food until it reaches his table, what route it takes, through whose hands it passes”, explained the first-born Flávio Bolsonaro, a senator by profession.
If it is true, on the other hand, that Bolsonaro tried to melt the electronic bracelet because he swore that the device had a bug, it is not just food that the former President of the Republic is suspicious of.
In fact, as he also does not believe in vaccines, in polls, in university research, in journalistic investigations or in votes counted by electronic voting machines (and some of his supporters do not even swallow this nonsense that man went to the moon or that the earth is round), perhaps he will suffer, as psychoanalysts Christian Dunker and Mário Corso risked when challenged by DN to make a diagnosis of the character, in 2021, of a “paranoid mind”. Forward.
However, an adaptation of the Hippocratic phrase that he used as the title of his last book is attributed to Vybarr Cregan-Reid, a British academic and writer at the University of York St. John: We Are What We Read – A Life with and Without Books.
Bolsonaro, of course, doesn’t read anything either. In fact, he admitted in 2021, in an interview with TV Bandeirantes, that he reads almost nothing. “Since I have been president, only Zap [whatsapp]”.
In 2018, during his first speech as president-elect, he surrounded himself with four books: Federal Constitutiona Bible, Memories of the Second World Warde Winston Churchill, e The Least You Need to Know to Not Be an Idiotthe book by Olavo de Carvalho, guru of the Brazilian far right, who has the ability to do exactly the opposite of what he promises in the title.
And, still campaigning, he said he had at his head The Suffocated Truth – The Story That the Left Doesn’t Want Brazil to Knowthat is, the memories of Brilhante Ustra, responsible during the military dictatorship for at least 45 deaths and disappearances, as well as beatings, drownings and electric shocks. And for sticking rats in the vaginas of those being interrogated, his great work. Representative Bolsonaro, by the way, dedicated his vote for the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, one of those questioned. Forward.
If Flávio is dedicated to controlling what his father eats, it is Jair Renan, the fourth son, whose first step after being elected councilor in the city of Balneário Camboriú was to take a vacation, who is responsible for managing what his father reads. “I brought you books to take your mind off things”, he said, after the visit, to the press, who, curious, immediately asked “which books, which books?”.
“Just word searches”, replied Renan, to the surprise of the reporters. Less bad, better to discover the names of 12 animals hidden in an alphabet soup than to read memoirs of torturers.
Journalist, correspondent in São Paulo