The Evolution Trap: Why Knowing More Isn't Growing More Today, I want to touch a raw nerve—one that neither social criticism nor “conscious” spirituality likes to address: the ego disguised as evolution. I want this text to stop being a discourse and become a mirror. Not for the system, but for those who claim they want to change it.

I was born in Salvador, Bahia—a city where the sea is the oxygen of the soul. But for me, there was a time when the sea was my greatest torturer. From childhood and through much of my adolescence, I faced a devastating skin disease. My body was a map of open wounds. I would scratch until I bled, in a desperate attempt to tear that agony away from me...

Many of us live under a dangerous illusion: the belief that the simple act of discovering our flaws is enough to correct them. We believe that mental insight is the cure. However, there is a vital chasm we often ignore in the journey of human development: the immense distance between self-knowledge and self-transformation.

Do you feel like the world is more polarized, more selfish, and dumber? You are right. The problem is not accidental. Modern society — politics, algorithms, and the market — actively works to dismantle your ability to be a Citizen and force you to be just a rigid Political Identity (Right vs. Left, Liberal vs. Conservative).

Self-respect is not about closing doors, but about choosing which ones deserve to remain open. It is about finding the wisdom to love without losing oneself, to protect oneself without becoming isolated, to remember that, in the end, we are all human, imperfect, and deserving of compassion.

“The wisest aren’t those who think they know it all, but those who question their own ignorance. Stay curious—be more like Socrates.”