Mba’e Megua problematização e percepção das crises a partir da ideia de risco na visão dos Guarani e Kaiowá: a política anti-indígena e a ascensão do Governo Bolsonaro

Abstract

As the Guarani and Kaiowá elders predicted, the dark times that had been announced for a long time, arrived echoing to all parts of the world and to all peoples. We are witnessing the unfolding of a reactionary phenomenon of worldwide scope that reflected in Brazil the rise and proclamation of an authoritarian, conservative, anti-democratic and anti-pluralist government. In Brazil, this process poses a major threat to democratic stability, human and constitutional rights, especially those of indigenous groups. We live in times where negativities present themselves as a possible way of existence, implementing as the only risk conditions as our lives. These conditions are explained by the Kaiowá and Guarani as jeiko asy, jeiko vai, mba`e vai and in the language of the oldest of Mba`e Megua, crisis. All refer to evil, the predominance of jeiko asy “evil living”, the rupture of conscience and reason that causes the physical and spiritual illness of humanity. In the same vein, we add that according to the Guarani cosmology, the earth is supported on a support point that at any moment can stagger and fall. According to this explanation, the crises and risks caused by human actions in the dynamics of modernity and world capitalism can accelerate the destruction of the world. Well, the difficult times we are experiencing are not just crises in the social, political, economic dimensions, among others, but a global threat to the life and existence of all beings that share space on Earth. The imbalance of both negativity and positivity is eminent. In truth, the Earth is already exhausted, the waters are decreasing, the animals are disappearing, begging the Ñande Ruete to put an end to all this. This essay is an invitation to reflect on the conditions of crises and risks that we are experiencing in order to do something useful in defense of the continuity of our existence.