Article: "Being different is not only normal, it's healthy." He draws nearer an election in Brazil. In October we will be choosing our "representatives" who occupy public office and that "theoretically" will want to improve people's lives, on points of personal views and ideologies are often rooted in specific. Along the way, stoked to debates and disputes in the new technological tools like Twitter, for example, where, since it occurs a healthy exchange of ideas without falling into the personal side, the debate is ; very welcome.
not live without a flag. Maybe we are facing a quite pessimistic in this regard. Currently, ideology no longer exists, except in very restricted political niche - and that precisely because they remain faithful to the flag they chose not succeed at the polls.
"Ideology, I want to live a"
. In the late 1980s, Cazuza was singing rock and passed the message that would be the highlight of the awakening of the Age of Aquarius. In Brazil, almost two decades following we begin to see a deplorable upsurge of marriage between politics and ideology.
I'm not here defending this or that banner. Being on the verge of becoming a historian, indeed, and not only attentive reader of history books, but also publications of Political and Social Sciences, believe that socialism, which emerged as a theory of economic organization and later transcended into the realm of culture, society and politics was an excellent idea, but which unfortunately can not handle the reality of the contemporary world. Therefore, within this theory itself, distinguished thinkers - among them, intellectuals such as Antonio Gramsci (Italian side) and even controversial (and revolutionary) historians like Eric Hobsbawm and Edward Palmer Thompson ( founders of the British New Left) - surprised and annoyed with socialism implemented by Joseph Stalin's Marxism and reformist strict sense - not that Thompson and Hobsbawm, for example, differed from Marxism primary, but rather creators new concepts applied to the original idea. And yet, applied the new scenario of post-modernity, socialism proved to be magnificent only within the literary pages.
Which is not to say that, on the other hand, capitalism is also interpreted as purely perceptive in the contemporary scene as well. If the original idea was good, certainly need further adjustments. Unfortunately was not well applied and savage capitalism predominated decades of 1980/1990, bringing back the much-criticized liberalism in the late 1920s. Examples of holdings
labor and economic dependence of countries (virtually bankrupt) to multinational companies (United Fruit, for example in Central America), are examples of predatory and wild fight ria, unhealthy for the growth and development of Third World countries.
The emergence of the rule of third way, personified in the rise of Tony Blair in the mid 1990 - with the British New Labour, presenting the model for the twenty-first century, following the principle "work for those who can work" and "assistance for those unable to work" - and also the new French socialism contraposiçãoa addicted formulas conservative and ultra-rightists (eg Jean-Marie Le Pen, in France itself, and Silvio Berlusconi Italy) renewed air not only French but also brought a feeling of redemption of the state of society as a conductor. A State, at the same time, "referee" and "supporter" of a new practice for society, the state translated into a neo-Bismarckism, in allusion to the state model designed by Otto Von Bismarck in Germany (see IANNI, Octavio.. Neobismarckismo. "The cycle of the bourgeois revolution in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro. January, Columbia University Press, 1979)..
Certainly the debate over the positioning model from Brazil, compared to those paradigms is provided sine qua non for the country's entry in the list of most developed countries in the world. However, with pessimism envision the current scenario of populist practices coupled with a welfare state, with a view electioneering. Many confuse this model to the British model of the third way, already cited in this text. In turn, also disagree with the conservative interests allies ruse aimed at foreign enrichment at the expense of the success of our national economy.
What scares me is that nowadays in Brazil there is such a debate, especially in academic circles and media. In Brazil, we discuss more "policy" than "economy", "culture" and "society." Platforms, agreements, bargaining ... parties that were before you ascend to Olympus political pragmatism attacked the government, now located at the top of the chain of governance, defend evil practices, with the bogus explanation of "governability". And it comes to meeting the disappearance (or decrease?) Ideology. If one hand is the continued attacks "Carlism" corners in Bahia, on the other hand, if the stroke-Colonels renewed clan that rules the Maranhão since 1966.
This certainly does not absolve of guilt the political practices carried out in previous governments. If there are culprits, demonstrably, they are punished and brought to the surface, emerging for the population to learn to not repeat old mistakes.
The population, which is mostly sold, misses the point of this whole debate. The population interest full belly and a bedroom TV. Interested in the possibility of the country hosting a World Cup and Olympics in the not too distant. Interested jumping carnival every year, to see women naked and sweaty. Interested forget the reality, even momentarily abdicated in a dream carnival. The existence of this trait, the Brazilian man seen as cordial is inherent to this or some previous governments. No, they are not guilty by the appearance of Brazil. Yes they are guilty, by the predominance of this outdated model, that is devoid of conscience and citizenship - political, economic and social development.
On June 18 this year, died José Saramago, Portuguese writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. Unfortunately he was known for much of the population at the time of his death. Many of his books must have been sold at the time of his burial. Others will be sold throughout the week until the obituary of weekly remember his death. After that, it will be relegated back to the perpetual resting place Brazilian oblivion. Meanwhile, it will be valuable to have a TV at home last generation, the Playstation fashion, rather than the awareness of educational investment in the medium to long term, to form future citizens . The promise of votes subverts any planning for the development of intellectual capital.
Through it, unfortunately we see a certain irrationality of those who, in the absence of argument and respect the opinions of others, prefer to incur the reverse path of radicalism: "If you disagree with me in the provides. " "If it is against my thinking is wrong." If lack ideology, intolerance remains. And the result is the pessimistic conclusion that if some still question today and are unhappy with the picture of alienation in the Brazilian who lives in a few generations will be absent this kind of debate.
After all,
"being different" is not normal. It's healthy. "
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