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sexta-feira, janeiro 04, 2019

Bizarre Brazil: State of faction, propaganda and exclusion (English version)

(This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.)

- Bolsonaro dismissed who posted 'Not him', 'Been beat' and 'Marielle lives'
Reporter Andrea Sadi showed in the G1 that the administrator Desiré Queiroz, favorite for the position of national secretary of youth, should be vetoed by Minister Damares Alves for having defended in a social network the murdered councilwoman Marielle Franco. (...)
https://www.msn.com/

What most impacts on this beginning of government is the feeling that the reason was taken from the game. Reason today seems to be a rather worn-out word, but we can use it to actually speak up between different worldviews - usually about the best way to solve problems. It would be the basis of democracy.
Its opposite is such a great control of information and reception that it creates a direct relationship between factious minority and uninformed mass.
This mass is not necessarily wrong at all points, but its assemblage of the landscape of problems, solutions and leaders is not defined by the agreement of most facts and by the elimination of simplifications. There is a list of "people not to be seen", which includes artists, journalists and politicians.

Journalist Zack Beauchamp comments on the new Hungarian regime:

An endless battery of propaganda, both from official and private media empires of Orbán's allies, demonizes refugees and Muslims, warning of an existential threat to Hungarian society and culture - defending the Orbán regime as the only thing that protects the country of Islamic domination. This forged crisis serves as a legitimizing tool for the authoritarianism of the Fidesz party, a pretext for the government to pass laws that undermine its opponents.
https://www.viomundo.com.br/

What has drawn attention is this creation of the public enemy in an evangelical-military vision: the propaganda creates a parallel world of fear and persecution. This world already existed with the "globismo" (by Globo TV), the ideology of the great media that hid the complexity and fed the desire of brute force.
We ask whom Thing is addressed: a hidden Brazilian subject, the elite children who have always hated the left and despise reasoning, the poor new cell phone who fears being robbed at the bus stop. Opinion polls have probably discovered the anger of the poor of the poor, the workers who want death for the "vagabonds." Whatsapp is more compelling than a well-known journalist.

More broadly, the oligarchy takes the state out of the way, as a regulator, as protector of the common good.
The crisis came with a sphere of public opinion controlled by the oligarchies.
The "hope in hatred" - the messiah as a solution - spoken by the anthropologists Rosana Pereira Machado and Lucia Mury Saclco, arouses a convicted revolt of the "opposition" who does not want "the same".

It was built the idea that winner uses brands. Progressives have not been able to work on the image of inequality as the main pillar of processes and solidarity as a deeper solution.

I always avoid criticizing the progressives, the so-called left, because there is a continuity between the unlimited powers of the Colony, the Empire and the Republic, so that the poor elite have never been reflected on their self-perception of white aristocracy. (There is even talk of releasing arms without going through Parliament).

But the left did not know how to name the protests of 2013 or give Congress an ultimatum to justify democratic deepening.
We saw a group of technicians trying to build on the structure of a decade ago, unions, critical thinking capitals, newspapers and institutions (thought to be organized on behalf of the people).
We find that we are a nucleus of thought surrounded by a mass without schooling, of a middle class without social responsibility, accustomed to think of profit only. Every question is a threat to order, but without questioning and dynamic order, society dies in hypocrisy and falsehood.

Moral conservatism, punitivism - which was fueled by corruption and violence.
The imagery of good and evil, now projected by TV in a new phase of expansion of salvationism, of values, of the well ordered eliminating the complex reality. the good people, the bishops, the uniforms, everyone knows what socialism is, leftism, they can guide us.

A fantasized socialism emerges, capable of bringing together all demands to pre-empt the circle of truth in dialogue, the best proposals, and its legitimacy.
Gays are taken off the agenda simply because nature - so diverse and mutant - can not belong to the discourse of Repression and Order, the betrayal of elites.

According to Moira Weigel, associate researcher at Harvard University:

"Anti-politically correct speech echoes in the United States among an audience that had been told for decades that it was unacceptable to be openly racist or misogynist.Then attacks on politically correct have become a way of expressing old forms of sexism and racism, without people being ashamed to say such things. "
https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/

According to the journalist Luis Nassif:

"Power now has high military patents, which are imbued with a Salvationist mission, a power that has come to stay. Salvationism consists in killing evil at its root, interfering in all systems that allow the spread of socialism and corruption. "
https://jornalggn.com.br/

Absurdities can be made because public reflection is no longer expected. The worst is that it is not just the debate between fewer resources or more, it is uncontested domination.
Static Brazil revolts against the shake that these years of prosperity and democracy have been.
But knowing reality is better than living in deception.

Afonso Jr. Lima

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