From the Academy of Hagiology of Minas Gerais. PhD in Environmental Science and Conservation from UFRJ
Trust me, reader, there are still liberal Catholics who attend churches and strive to honor their faith despite the ethical and moral persecution they face. Society is becoming more and more pharisaic and Protestant, and the reasons for this persecution are historical. I have already addressed this issue in my review of the memoirs of the 1842 revolution (Revista IHG-MG, Vol. 37, August/2012, p. 116). Today I’m going to take education and power to show that the people of Brazil must get rid of fake political leaders who put the future of the nation in the hands of criminal businessmen and fake entrepreneurs.
Let us recall the wise catechetical words of Father Antonio Hiraldo Alves de Brito (SSP), when he showed us that the calling of a true Catholic will always take “last places”, especially in a society so Manichaean, selfish and vain, where he must “win in life” and appear ; be news, even if due to moral and ethical scandals. Father Iraldo shows us that the meaning of victory in life is to develop as a man of faith who respects others and “cultivates true humility.”
In studying Lamberto Borghi (1951), who dealt with education and power in modern Italy, I realize that some Brazilian political and economic leaders deliberately make the same moral and ethical mistakes of the 1842 Jacobins and Girondins by calling themselves democrats, monarchists, and republicans, but acting only as despots, in order to enrich themselves with public money and absorb the benefits of social power, in the face of a society that did not cultivate either healthy humility, much less the wisdom necessary to distinguish between false scientific disputes and dystopias in political and economic discourses. The “educational thinking” that has historically developed in Brazil testifies to our structural (economic and socio-cultural), political and moral backwardness. After all, our society from the very beginning laid its scholastic institutions in philosophical and religious currents that put Christianity above Protestantism, Judaism and Indianism.
In fact, even speaking to those who read newspapers and might have a better understanding of the subject, it is a sociological fact that many readers do not even know the terms presented here and know almost nothing about the history of modern political thought. As for the humanistic training of teachers in primary, secondary and higher public schools, unfortunately, the plight of Brazil is the fault of (always) conservative elites, who since 1842, claiming democracy, confuse everyone by imposing their financial interests. And they do this even with the help of politicians who call themselves “liberals” but are, at heart, authoritarian, fascist and ultra-conservative executioners. So far nothing new on the front. As il Borghi would say in his person in Italy between 1925 and 1943, “il fascism founded la sua dottrina e la sua prassi sul concetto della sottomissione completa dell’individuo allo Stato” (1951:312). Therefore, we cannot allow all this to happen again here. And in order to prevent this, you need to know who the fascists, communists, socialists, liberals and conservatives are. And why don’t they assume and make their government programs explicit?
The only exception seems to be Simone Tebet; a true liberal who, in a few good words, summed up his government’s plan for the Brazilian nation: education and respect. As far as power is concerned, the people must put their rulers in the right place and regulate their speech and manners. Before we have to swear allegiance to the rats.
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