Cynicism as a tool to undermine democracy
Cynicism is not only the refuge of those who don’t have imagination to change the world, and who usually do nothing. It is also a tool from the extreme right […]
Cynicism is not only the refuge of those who don’t have imagination to change the world, and who usually do nothing. It is also a tool from the extreme right […]
The toll taken by the Corona Virus on human life and on livelihoods is enormous. It is difficult to find a silver lining in such terrible events. But the virus […]
One of the reasons for the success of capitalism in liberal democracies (i.e. ‘successful’ from the point of view of capitalists) was the protection to property and entrepreneurialism that liberal […]
For those who don’t grasp what’s going on in Chile, a few notes. Chile was one of the first “laboratories” of new-liberalism in the world. Most policies heralded by the […]
Ontem li na timeline de uma amiga o comentário de um bolsonarista ao seu post (acima, na imagem). Em suma, o sujeito dizia que se ela não estava contente com […]
Today I heard on the BBC News a specialist on complex systems discuss democracy. Apparently, the complex systems community is trying to model democratic behaviour. While I don’t think one […]
Acabei de bloquear um amigo de longa data que votou (com paixão) em Bolsonaro. Sinto muito. De verdade. Bloqueá-lo não me fez nenhum bem. E gostaria de acreditar que em […]
O nhenhenhén dos Bolsominions está apenas começando. Agora que os mais lúcidos começaram a perceber a cagada, começa a apologia e os apelos ao patriotismo (estamos no mesmo barco, temos […]
Sometimes, people have utterly different values from ours. As a teacher, I try to detach myself from my students’ values and try to understand them dispassionately and fairly. But in […]
Ontem passei um bom tempo do meu dia debatendo qual atitude tomar em relação ao apoiadores de Bolsonaro. O argumento usado era que no meu texto original eu colocava todos […]