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@kunley_drukpa

Feb 13

BRAZIL 1 GERMANY 7 - THE DAY BRAZIL DIED 🇧🇷

Was speaking with Brazilian friend, talking about the ‘decline’ of Brazil - ‘decline’ as in Brazil’s fall from the cool ‘Girl from Ipanema’, ‘Oscar Niemeyer’, ‘Chico Buarque’ mid C20th Brazil to the Brazil it is today. ‘Decline’ in the sense of increased crime, favelisation, inequality, decreased soft power, freedom of speech etc

Accepting that framing he said a lot of change started with the incompetence of the ‘Retard Right’ military dictatorship but crystallises with the New Republic, especially under the Worker’s Party - really institutionalised Third Worldism so-called. Coming up to 40 years now of various kinds of left policies

I said is there a symbolic moment for that. He thought about it and said maybe the 2014 Brazilian World Cup

You may or may not remember… this was one of the most shocking results ever - Brazil was destroyed 7–1 by Germany in Belo Horizonte, a humiliating defeat and the worst in World Cup history for Brazil. It ended their campaign on home soil and became a symbol of national trauma

I remember watching this game and I am not even particularly big on football, had not been to Brazil in 2014 either. Was in Morocco at the time. Morocco has a big milling culture where people will just sit around on plastic chairs on the streets. Because it was the World Cup large groups of people would gather outside cafes or restaurants or houses where someone had a TV to watch the matches whenever they were on. So you would just be out walking around the cities and there were enough screens set up that you could follow the progress of pretty much every match. If there was an especially exciting goal scored you would hear cheers from down the street

8 July 2014 - the infamous Germany Brazil match. Just on the street and suddenly Germany score. And then they score again. And again. Moroccans were starting to pull off from their usual business and watch the screens. Was that dramatic - sounds like an exaggeration but really was like a movie, people stopped what they were doing to watch. I got really hooked at that point too, remember it vividly

And Germany just kept going and going. Teutonic mechanised precision, repeatedly slamming the ball into the goal. Watching it at the time really it just felt like watching someone get raped, some of the Moroccans you could tell felt like this too - looking at each other and shaking their heads. Was a sense someone needed to intervene, we were watching an entire nation die on screen

My Brazilian friend:

“I think in the 60s Brazil had a good balance. It was kind of a mystical Latino country, in the creative sweet spot inbetween Northern European Protestantism and African… what could you say… between the Apollonian and the Dionysian”

“Haha. And that changed as the government got more Third Worldist so-called?”

“You know we had some nice pardo players before, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Pele was black… this was fine, good actually but then it was like… it became too Africanised. The country became too Africanised - I mean in the sense of disordered. Politically, demographically, culturally… the standards dropped. The best football players in the world today, Messi, Ronaldo they’re Latino”

“You mean it lost that kind of Latino flair? In Spanish they say ‘Duende’, means like Latin flair and passionate intensity” [Don’t know Portuguese equivalent, maybe ‘Alma’]

“Maybe, yes. Was like there was no magic anymore. It gets replaced with… the disorganised mess of favela culture. Sure it has some ‘soul’ in a way but it’s chaotic, can’t coordinate. Brazil at the time, it was really putting its entire transforming national identity behind that team. Ok we’re a new more egalitarian Brazil not the elitist ‘Girl from Ipanema’ white European-coded Brazil we used to be. This is the new Brazil of the Pardo. You can look at the ethnic make-up of Brazilian teams over time, it changes… And then the German machinery sweeps in and obliterates it”

The real struggle for Brazil now is whether it can overcome Lula’s PT-Reich

If you are 🇧🇷 Brazilian 🇧🇷 please leave a comment below corroborating or qualifying this

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@kunley_drukpa

Feb 13

LEARNING TO LET YOUR STANDARDS GO 🇧🇷

Spend too long somewhere like Brazil you start to catch yourself slipping a little into the warm embrace of Lusotropicalism. I mean in the sense that you start to act more and more like a local, the Hajnali stiffness begins to melt away a bit. Here’s one way this happens - there is a sentiment in Brazil; ‘Já tô chegando’. Means something like turning up to things late or arriving late without guilt

Of course not all Brazilians but there is a stereotype that Brazilians always turn up to things 15 minutes late because of this ‘Já tô chegando’ - it’s Brazil, nobody cares it’s fine. No rush. This attitude existing broadly because Brazil is Brazil. To be sure, some Brazilians, again, will be offended by lateness but fair to say many others will not be assuming it is non-egregious lateness. Actually this is something I have always been predisposed to anyway, turning up ‘a little’ late - so when you get the green light to indulge that disposition it’s not that you intentionally lean into it but you’re less preoccupied with the Northern European gold standard over time

Really this is the Lusotropicalification of you own mental space. Maybe it is just the path of least resistance to embrace the Lusotropicalism, Brazil is after all the best worst country in the world. Imagine how good it could be with a Basically Finest government. You don’t want to go back to Yookayian hollowed-out legacy industriousness culture with Babel-maxxed dystopian clown customs characteristics you could stay in Brazil, being as it is ‘a version’ of the same thing. This is a ‘Bronze Age Pervert’ point - in hyper-Yookay you have these nagging puritan Protestant social mores on top of the dysfunction of Brazil. In Brazil you have the dysfunction of Brazil but you don’t have these nagging puritan Protestant social mores and at least the weather is nice

Met an American friend in Brazil, turned up about ten minutes late

“Been here for ten minutes man”

“It’s just five minutes”

“It’s ten minutes”

He seemed a little bothered by it, had almost forgotten that in ‘his culture’ this kind of thing was considered rude. Time and tide wait for no man

Also above when I say ‘not all Brazilians’, I want to stress this is not all Brazilians - this is just Brazilian concept that some have explained to me. You can see this when you describe ‘Já tô chegando’ to say someone from São Paulo. They sort of huff and puff; “we are Pualistas we’re not like those frivolous macoco Cariocas from Rio de Janeiro who turn up two hours late for everything and can’t go two days without cheating on their partner oh no not us”. My experience with them is this isn’t always true but still it makes me laugh, it is funny to say it as a ‘troll’

Anyway I love Brazil 🇧🇷

Incredible how Brazil does it

That’s Lusotropicalism for you

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@kunley_drukpa

Feb 13

https://twitter.com/naval/status/2021975697234047330

Is this true in a world where customs, peoples and languages are being dissolved into a new universal globoslop culture? Which side will win out?

https://twitter.com/naval/status/2021975697234047330

https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2016905939366932556

Used to think Tribalism-Maxxing would win out but thinking more and more these days World could be heading for Nobodycaresanymoreist Cocacolaeffectified Globoslop 'Patchwork'
World - as distinct from pure Lusotropical Yookayian Favela World. Your comments on this...

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https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2020561115709661218

Bear witness to the full might of Globalist Hypermodernity

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@kunley_drukpa

Feb 11

THE CONSEQUENCES OF IGNORING WARNINGS 🇧🇷

Would be walking on the streets in Brazil and keep getting people very solemnly approach me saying “cuidado, cuidado” and “hey be careful, don’t have your phone out someone is going to steal it”. A quite serious tone with a furrowed brow and real finger wagging. Was happening a lot, was wondering why - maybe I just look naive and / or retarded

Mostly was finding it annoying in the sense of have watched enough ‘London Street News’ videos to know what a phone-snatching looks like. It’s a bit tedious to be the apparently dumb gringo getting regularly lectured on the street by random people. Also too as a Yookayian you are already cognisant of these things via the memetic forces. So you just politely thank them and then move on, you have this basic self-assuredness where you don’t think it can happen to you

One day walking on the street stood by a traffic light waiting to cross street. Just on phone typing out a tweet then suddenly felt a big forceful pulling sensation. Luckily though my hands instinctively gripped the phone, like a bear trap swinging shut. Pulling sensation loosens and there is a motorbike revving noise. As I look up there is a Deliveroo courier (in Brazil the equivalent is iFood) driving off staring back at me. Took a few seconds to realise what had happened. “Oh it’s the thing that happens in those X videos”. An old woman nearby angrily shouting at him as he rode away

First emotions are a mix of anger and violation. It’s fine, you get over it in a few hours but until then you walk around feeling a bit stupid in the sense of your having let it happened to you. The tweet ended up being an ‘ok’ tweet, not one of my best so not I think good enough to warrant phone loss for. The more long-lasting consequence is just to make you more paranoid whenever you’re on the street, if you’re walking around you now feel like you need to be constantly checking over your shoulder just incase a guy on a motorbike whizzes past you and tries to snatch your phone again. It’s very draining to be in this state all the time, you can lecture someone on the importance of not being naive about these things ‘haha don’t be a dumb gringo’ but I don’t think it’s a great way to live. Paranoia and low expectations erodes social trust, you’re in a constantly on-edge low trust society. Does a bit of a number on you mentally

People unavoidably continue to lecture you on the street even after all this too, still tedious but you have to compartmentalise it as coming from a place of concern

Anyway I love Brazil 🇧🇷

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About the tragedy of innocence lost and devolving into a Lowtrustoid

https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1898121554904404115

It’s a slow spiritual death adjusting to it

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@kunley_drukpa

Feb 10

BRAZILIAN SAFETY BUNKERS 🇧🇷

Was talking to Brazilian woman, topic of gang violence came up as it normally does in such situations. She said, “the gang violence here is really bad sometimes. When I was at school we used to have a bunker we would go and hide in whenever there was gang warfare or shooting nearby”

Accidentally let out a loud guffaw

“No I’m serious it isn’t a joke my school used to have a safety bunker”

“Really?”

“Yes whenever stray bullets were flying nearby”

“I’ve never heard of that before”

“It’s true”

“Is that a typical thing in Brazilian schools?”

“Not everywhere but my school was near a favela and sometimes the shooting would spill out over into the nearby streets”

“Did you not find that pretty traumatising?”

“We didn’t really think much about it”

“Really?”

“No it was normal”

“So you start hearing shots outside the school and you just go and sit in the bunker and wait for the shooting to finish?”

“Yes - and then go back to class”

I looked this up afterwards, I couldn’t find too much evidence that schools in Brazil have emergency shooting bunkers but the concept was entertaining enough that I do believe it

Anyway I love Brazil 🇧🇷

They apparently have a version of this in some select American schools in the case of school shootings… giant steel bunker as below. I don’t know if this is true that sounds melodramatic but it’s not impossible so who knows? I wondered if Brazil had a lot of school shootings, if ‘Lusotropical Modernity’ makes people lose it and ‘run amok’ in the same way they do in America. Apparently they do, Sensitive Young Pardo reaches his last straw, can’t take life in ‘Bra-Zoo’. Many such cases. Brazilian students dodging shootings both in and outside the classroom…

If you are 🇧🇷 Brazilian 🇧🇷 please leave a comment below corroborating or qualifying this

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@kunley_drukpa

Feb 10

BRAZIL AND THE CARAMEL DOG MENTALITY OR, ‘THE MONGREL COMPLEX’ 🇧🇷

There is a type of dog I and others have called the ‘Third World Default Dog’ Dog - it’s very common in the third world and seems to be the ‘Default Dog’ dogs revert to when not bred by humans, the sort of base dog form the species of ‘dog’ in the platonic sense regresses to when not under selective breeding pressures. Some 75% of the worrld’s dogs aren’t actually a recognised breed - many are some variant of this Dog, also called in India a ‘Village Dog’ or in Brazil a ‘Caramelo’ (Caramel Dog). In the third world where dogs are just left to roam and rut in the streets of their own accord this kind of mutt is inevitably a regular sight

Because Brazil is the nation of ‘miscigenação’, a mixed nation, the ‘Caramelo’ has for some Brazilians been adopted as a national symbol, a sort of (not being disparaging here) rootless but affectionate and resilient mixed-mutt dog for a rootless but affectionate and resilient mixed-mutt people, Brazil as the ‘Lusotropical Mundo do Vira-lata Caramelo’

Brazilians tell me there is a specific name for a kind of national insecurity they have called the ‘Complexo de Vira-lata’ mentality - the ‘mongrel complex’ or ‘vita-latismo’. This complex describes a deep-seated Brazilian inferiority feeling toward the outside world - especially Europe, the US and "developed" countries - where Brazilians supposedly undervalue their own achievements, culture and people and instead crave foreign validation, praise and imitation. Because of their ‘Caramelo’ ‘miscigenação’ mutt background there is a complex of feeling ‘lesser’ until a gringo approves something Brazilian; "we're mongrels, so we're inferior"; seeking gringo approval in different fields to feel worthy

“You shouldn’t think of yourself like that”

“But we do”

“Well…”

“Brazilians like too much this pat on the head, who’s a good dog? Who’s a good dog? They wag their tail”

“It’s a kind of jestermaxxing”

“What?”

Some Brazilians say this mentality is less common now - in some cases replaced by healthy self-regard, in some more extreme cases it has flipped into a sort of extreme Lusotropicalism-maxxing anti-westernism. Others will say it is still very pervasive in the country though, all the middle class Brazilians want to travel to France and Italy and so on. Interesting psychological feature of Lusotropicalism either way

Anyway I love Brazil 🇧🇷

Lusotropical Praxis

My inference is that this is partially why if you just tweet the word ‘Brazil’ you get Brazilians spontaneously materialising out of the internet aether to comment on your post

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