By FLAVIO AGUIAR*
“You shall covet the house of the poor, not the house of the rich, unless he neglects to preserve it for the worship of Lord Capital”
- You will have no other gods besides Lord Capital.
- You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters beneath the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them, because the Lord Capital, your God, has no visible form, no smell, no sound, no taste, and much less is he perceptible by touch. He is ethereal and hovers over the lands and waters, burning like fire and swift as the hurricane wind that consumes and destroys everything.
- You shall not take the name of Lord Capital, your God, in vain, for Lord Capital will not leave unpunished anyone who takes it in the name of vain values, such as solidarity, ethics, humanity, equality, fraternity, etc.
- Remember the many days of rest, to deny them to those who work for you and for Lord Capital. You will be merciless with those who want to work less than six days a week and use the seventh for any purpose other than to replenish their strength to work for you and for Lord Capital.
- You will honor your father and mother, your grandfather, your grandmother or whoever blessed you with the inheritance of Lord Capital, because that is how you were born rich, blessed, powerful, and you will protect your natural state with your nails, teeth, knives, rifles, tanks, nuclear warheads and whatever else you can find as weapons to defend your rights and those of Lord Capital. You will accept the advice to turn to NATO, the IMF, the World Bank, never to the Silk Road or the BRICS Bank, much less to Moscow's gold.
- You will kill if necessary, especially those who preach a religion other than that of your Lord Capital.
- You shall not betray your Lord Capital with any other deity, however attractive. You shall reduce all cultural values to negotiable figures.
- You will steal the bread and salt of the poor, but not the possessions of your fellow believers in the Religion of Lord Capital.
- You will always give false testimony against anyone who opposes the worship of Lord Capital, using fake news, lawfare and other scoundrel means to neutralize the enemy, resorting to lethal weapons if necessary.
- You will covet the house of the poor, not the house of the rich, unless he neglects to preserve it for the worship of Lord Capital.
* Flavio Aguiar, journalist and writer, is a retired professor of Brazilian literature at USP. Author, among other books, of Chronicles of the World Upside Down (boitempo). [https://amzn.to/48UDikx]
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