From Brasilia, Brazil.
Today’s episode: Corrupt Homo Sapiens: the subspecies that ruins the social and economic dignity
If you can’t be ethical, be at least someone who fights with all your strength to control the tendency to corruption, including that which is in other people around you and trying to influence you negatively.
Sociologists such as Hermann Heller (1930) insist that the human look at the world has always been divided between the transcendent vision as the one that projects itself to the metaphysical, beyond the cosmos, including the idea of God, and the immanent vision, which focuses on what is material, palpable, tangible.
This same idea was already defended by the pre-classical Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who, in view of his previous and contemporary religious transcendentalism, claimed that not everything that happened was driven by the divine will, as there is also the Law of Nature and the Human Law.
The fact is that regardless of whether the human has a transcendental or immanent vision, corruption has always seduced him.
Anna Maria de Castro and Edmundo Fernandes Dias, in the book “Introdução ao pensamento sociológico” (1976, p.22), state that “Every subject perceives the outside world and their own selfish tendencies through the categories of thought inherited from the society in which they live.”
It’s just like that, it’s enough to note that we live in a country in which countless conditions coalesce to form the so-called “Brazilian spirit”. That’s how we perpetuate the “Brazilian way” and worship corrupt politicians because for us the saying “steals, but delivery” terribly seems to make sense.
This is how we are who we are, and we will continue reproducing in our social womb the cult on the left, and on the right of political specters, always falling in love for false ideologies without submitting our feelings to the reason. It is enough that we fall in love with any political fallacy that we forget that passion blinds, dumb down, and deviates from the best path.
The Cartesianism of “I think, therefore I am” (René Descartes) is disputed in modern times, and some thinkers say that the human being does not exist by thinking, but that he also exists in feeling.
It is obvious that the set of sensations, that is, the junction of all our five senses defines us as a superior species, but it seems to me that those thinkers did not quite understand what Descartes intended to express indeed, since the senses are commanded by critical and logical reasoning and the mad ones have no such attributes.
If you take away from a being the ability to think, what is left in him is a body and an existence that does not connect him with any other rational being. Therefore, this BEING does not exist for the theory of knowledge.
A person eats, drinks, feels, and can even reproduce, but if he is crazy, if he lacks reasoning, he is absent and not culpable, as Criminal Law sustains.
Corruption is a choice of the active corrupter and the passive corrupter, that is, the one who offers the bribe and the one who accepts it.
To broaden the understanding of the theme, it is perhaps better to say that corruption is cultural, and is decided in the intimate sphere of each one, at the exact moment of conscious and free action, and omission, when someone decides to break certain system whose foundations are justice, honesty, and ethics.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the former president of Brazil, in his government, to justify the many accusations, including the ones of former presidente Lula, of having “bought” the Legislative Power for his re-election, once affirmed that there is ethics, and there is the “political ethics ”. What a great fallacy!
What a tremendous lie! Ethics is the science of what is fair, and honest. It doesn’t lend itself to the role of stooping to politics, religion, medicine, law, or whatever. Ethics do not knee to anything or anyone, while corruption, in turn, is the breach of ethics in any system.
When a pastor, priest, bishop, monk, or any kind of priest takes the money from offerings, tithes, and donations, to gives it to his wife, daughters, and whoever is going to put silicone to make breasts or ass prettier or not, or to travel around the world and, in parallel, the orphans, widows and poor of their temple go hungry, or nights in the dark because they have no money to pay the electricity bill, these priests are as corrupt as a lawyer who receives the customer money and do not give it quickly to him.
Doctors who deceive their patients by promising good results, but delivers deformations are corrupt, like politicians who promise results, but what they do is to turn voters against each other, as if they were dogs n a fight. It is with this smokescreen that politicians hide the miseries of their mandates, which impoverish the poor even more, and enrich the rich even more.
Every political campaign in Brazil starts on the day the new president takes office, whoever he is, and whoever he comes from.
Brazil is already experiencing the 2022 elections, since 2019, and what we see is our economy collapsing, our culture in disarray, our education system reproducing mediocre copycats and plagiarists.
Note that our health care system deteriorates with each new decade, and we continue to live in a country that for 521 years has disguised the indignity that serves at the table of its people, arguing that tomorrow we will be better since we are the country of the future.
Our political system is a fallacy, a lie that has been told for more than five centuries. Lies told for centuries become truth for those who have no logical and critical thinking. How not expect the people to believe in so many lies told so much time?
This “Corrupt Homo Sapiens” that is continually reproduced in the womb of the Nation, and that occupies positions, jobs, and political mandates in the three powers of the State are the subspecies, that ruin life in our country.
If you want to deepen this reflection, buy my new book: “The dilemma of loyalty divided between Nation and State, and the social doctrines that govern the world”.
Available in Portuguese, in the best bookstores in Portugal, and in Brazil, or buy “Encyclopedia corruption in The World”, available by www.judivanvieirabooks.com
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