Week 23

I don’t know if Herbert Spencer’s axiom “The Survival of the Fittest” is true to evolution in the animal kingdom. Yet, it sounds so true in the city jungle. It’s the urban survival of the fittest. In the city of Recife there is a hierarchical kingdom on the roads—the massive trucks don’t respect the buses, the buses don’t respect the cars, the cars don’t care about the motorcycles, the motorcycles don’t respect the bicycles. If you’re the pedestrian, watch out, you’re the weakest! It’s different in other countries, I know. Some are very orderly, others are totally chaotic. It’s mean and stressful. It’s dangerous and cunning. Here we are more toward anarchy. How’s the Christian to survive in such jungles?
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.”