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Child abandonment
17
Apr
I find, reading a Portuguese newspaper that the number
of abandoned children worldwide reaches 220 million worldwide, one in ten, and the number caught my attention because it is practically the population of Brazil.
The news of 2016 says that only in Portugal about 8,600 children were removed from their families in 2015, and also very curious news that in three villages where these Portuguese children are referred (there is still much life and many villages in Portugal, which differs from small towns), the villages of Bicesse (photo), Guarda and Gulpilhares, they are integrated into a house with a “social mother” and cohabit with the other children as brothers.
What is the school success of the current 120 children? in all villages have already lived in these villages more than 500 children, the school success rate is 88%, do not report the metric, but I believe that is the approval, since they do not talk about evasion numbers.
The time I went to look for what are social mothers has turned out to be an even greater reality, the NGO SOS mothers was founded in Austria in 1949, and is already in 135 countries, with about 2000 programs in the areas of protection, prevention, health, education and emergency.
The aldeias-SOS.org program is one of these programs. In the case of Portugal, it aims at Family Empowerment through 130 biological families, who receive an “employment grant”, with parents selected through such a detailed profile: – age between 30 and 55 years old; – minimum schooling 9th year, preferably secondary education and training in the area of education; – experiences in daily management of care and teamwork; – personal availability, intense professional commitment with majority residency in the SOS Village; and, – determination, tolerance and perseverance; – resistance to frustration and conflict resolution; – flexibility: ability to adapt to different situations and individual characteristics; – communication and empathic skills.
Expression and understanding of the other’s feelings. – ability to work in team and organizational competence. It is not just a program for social families, it is a program for all families, but more importantly, besides being a social work, it is a source of income for families with the capacity to face the challenges of family education.
Reforestation: Is it possible a spring in the West?
02
Apr
Martha Nussbaum is the author of this idea, to which a
reforestation is possible, I like this idea not because of the foundation that the author has in classical antiquity, in fact the rebirth was a promising phase of humanity, but gave in liberalism and idealism, which are correlates, then what was lacking in rebirth? I think some disruption.
It is a fact that modern justice is based on the theses of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and ultimately Kant, and then updated with Smith Bentham and Mill, but Amartya Sen a co-author with Martha Nussbaum of a work on justice, lists three characteristics of what they call “transcendental institutionalism” (very appropriate, by the way):
– firstly, because the idea of thinking of an ideal situation that can promote a reasoned and impartial agreement makes the theory of justice fall into a factuality of an agreement (nothing more idealistic of course)- the exercise of practical reason invites us to reflect on which are viable alternatives for the promotion of justice, and this does not mean (the facts prove) to overcome the inequalities.
The authors guide us to realize the sense that riches as a means lead us to have more freedom to live the life we value, and this means expansion of capacities.
We have to value the actions that enable us to become more complete human beings, and that enable us mainly to be protagonists of the world today.
It is necessary first of all that we understand it well, there is no way to do this without knowledge, but knowledge of the cultures and of the human beings who own the cultures.
I am 14 days in Portugal, at the same time so close and so far, I have faced situations and words that I do not know, expressions of contentment and repulsion that I did not know, I understood in my skin what is meant by “culture shock”, but I found a lot in common, what I have come to call “portuguese paternity” (of Brazilian, of course).
The approach to the training of Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen seemed to me much more appropriate, for although I have the resources to survive in Portugal, I lack the culture and the means necessary for a reasonable human conviviality with a near and distant culture.
Nearby language, by many habits and even dictates and expressions common with Portugal, but distant because it is a dense culture, more rooted for almost a millennium of existence, that already had an imperialist and expansionist phase, a taxi driver that was in Angola and Mozambique confided to me: I was always a foreigner there, even though I knew the culture.
In order to replenish a world education, education for diversity of cultures and nations.
Its Spring in Lisbon, Portugal, but has a rapid rain (aguaceiros named here) and it´s cool for any days.
NUSSBAUM, M. “Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice,” Feminist Economics, 9(2/3), 2003, p. 33–59.
The crisis and the ashes
14
Feb
The economic, political and social crisis is worldwide, but the Brazilian has more of an ash 
Wednesday than carnival, but it is possible to survive in the crisis.
A suggestive and profound book is the book in partnership with Edgar Morin and Patrick Viveret: How to live in times of crisis? (Bertrand Brasil, 2013), who suggest in the book “I risk the hypothesis that perhaps we have reached a moment of rupture” (page 22), but what rupture?
Ortega y Gasset recalls, “we do not know what happens, and this is exactly what happens”, says this about the difficulty of relating facts, the digital revolution, the resurgence of nations (Armenian, Kurds, Croatians among many others), the great Asian tigers jumps, finally a great range of new relations, and now new tensions and wars in Africa.
The pragmatists, who do not know the complexity, want to be practical, ignore the theory or repeat only a single author, the illusion of a “universal” theory, what we need Morin and Viveret: “the present, the real is not what it seems stable … one must be open to the uncertain, to the unexpected. “(p.25).
But the authors ask: “What then, the good news? An awareness of the breadth, of the complexity, of a new beginning. We are in a period of planetary crisis and we do not know what will come of it; what counts on the possibility of transcending this crisis will be good news “(p.27).
Viveret writes in the chapter “What will we do in our lives,” stating that we should go out of the way to preserve the best “, but paradoxically” maintaining the lucidity that there is the worst “(p.44), does not seem to give a definitive solution, but we can find the best of “traditional societies and civilizations”, and we must know these civilizations.
Emphasize the author that “it is necessary to reappropriate democratically and semantically the words ‘value’ and ‘richness’ whose root reich (in German) refers to the creative power” (pages 60 and 61).
He also recalls Karl Polanyi, in his book “The Great Transformation”, “analyzes the market economies that are legitimate for market societies that are dangerous, that is, the moment when commodification invades the whole social universe . “(P.61). The author gives us as a remedy to leave the infernal pair “excitement / depression,” to move toward another pair: “intensity / serenity” (p.76).
They end the book by saying that it is “necessary to grow in humanity.”
The liquid Policy
12
Feb
Unable to make a correct reading of the current process of globalization, politics across the 
globe develops in a false right-left dichotomy, since it is only de facto right (defense of the market, return to the concept of wealth of the nations, defense of manual labor without the machines, etc.) in a comic style of Trump, and it is only de facto left (defense of the sacred intervention of the state in any economic and all human areas, such as art, religion and schooling), as the childishness of the dictator of North Korea: Kim-Jong Un.
Individualization and relationship losses
07
Feb
All processes of modern individualization were forms of isolation of the subject,
initially of objects (the famous Kantian rupture between objectivism and subjectivism), after the individuals among themselves, but Sloterdijk we go further, states “anatomical.”
The form of his criticism is one of the pillars of the pathetic nation-state, the formulation of Rousseau who was “the inventor of man without a friend, who could only think of the other complement in the form of an immediate maternal nature or an immediate national totality. “(Sloterdijk, 2016, 248).
The solitude of modern man gives a more solid explanation: “If the individual can not complete and stabilize himself through successful applications of the techniques of solitude – for example, in artistic exercises and written soliloquies – he is destined to be absorbed by the totalitarian collectives “(p. 349) for this, writes in Spheres I on the bubbles.
It gives an anatomical explanation for this: “The modern solitary subject is not the result of his own choice, but a fractional product of the rude separation of birth and placenta.” (350), just as he had already spoken of the heart in the relationship with the Other, now traverses the original aspect, the attachment of the child to the mother through the placenta, this helps to understand his concept of “anatomical individualism.”
He resorted to the novel of Orpheus and Eurydice to explain the rupture, in Greek mythology Orpheus was the son of the muse Calliope with the Apollo or Éagro, king of Thrace, knows Eurydice and falls in love and marries with her, but the beauty of Eurydice attracts a beekeeper Aristeu, but Orpheus pursues her and in pursuit she stumbles on a serpent that bit her heel and kills her.
Orpheus’s symbology that serves the modern man is the pursuit of the relationship, but without abandoning his “anatomical individualism” he can not reach communion, the umbilical connection that prevents him from “truthful relations”, organic, although he praises “pure relationship “As did Orpheus who praises her in his songs (photo).
Maybe Sloterdijk does not know, but the brazilian popular dictator: “looking at his own belly button” that has exactly an individualistic sense, in this case is looking at the relationship lost.
SLOTERDIJK, P. Esferas I: bolhas (Spheres I: bubbles). Translate to portuguese: José Oscar A. Marques São Paulo: Estação Liberdade, 2016
What is the evil of our time?
05
Feb
Modernity is in crisis, and it is not due to technology and new media, since the
process has long been detected by thinkers, sociologists and social scientists; and point is not the central cause even if it influences the crisis.
One of the authors who points out this crisis is Domenico de Masi, a 79-year-old writer, professor at the La Sapienza University in Rome, he talks about a disorientation, his latest book “Alphabet of the Disoriented Society” (Brazilian edition: Objetiva) reached Brazilian bookstores in 2017 , he became famous for his book “Creative Leisure.”
In his previous book, “The Future Has Arrived,” he says that society’s current sociological model is missing as a reference, it is interesting to note that this reversal of the ideologies of the previous century reveals exactly this , the binary model of understanding that we either go to utopian socialism or to capitalism in the period of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations.”
From his previous book I take an analysis that I consider important, where it says that the lack of reference made society unable to distinguish between what is beautiful and what is ugly, what is true and what is false, what is good and what is bad, what is right and what is left, and even what is alive and what is dead, we may understand the wave of “zombies” and the post-truth there.
To point out what the author thinks of the future, he points out a series of “sociological acupunctures”, some significant aspects of our society, and explores twenty-six, which in my view is too much and can somehow confuse.
He himself makes a synthesis by pointing out the factors that were “solid” (concept that I attribute to him in terms of the Baumanian liquid), industrial society (1750-1950), namely: rationality, speed, efficiency, standardization, consumerism and chauvinism.
It shows how problems such as concentration of income could be solved from a view of wealth produced, according to the author’s data the world grows 3 to 4% year, and already produces, 65 trillion dollars a year, and using a UN report about human development, would be enough to 100 billion dollars a year to end hunger in the world.
It points to enigmatic visions of society, like loss of privacy (according to him, it will be impossible to forget, get lost, get bored and isolate), and we will be able to avoid genetic diseases (very unrealistic at least until now), and do technology for many of our ills: affective robots (using Artificial Intelligence), 3D printers that would replace industrial machines.
Although it appeals to subjectivity, in the old dichotomy between subject and object, it does not yet see the question of Being that can only be solved with the presence of another Being, according to the analysis of the existential-ontological thinking currents, to replace it artificially does not seem to me solution.
But it’s worth the most of Seneca who likes to use: “No wind is in favor of the sailor who does not know where to go.”
The universal and parish message
05
Jan
Modern states were built on the aegis of the Enlightenment and liberalism
culture, which preaches freedom among nations, but conceals the interests of groups and milieus of culture that are nothing other than spokesmen of the current culture.
In spite of the culture of the states overlapping the culture of the people who are on their guardianship, regardless of the states there is a rich cultural diversity, in Europe this can be seen by the diversity of culture and peoples, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, if you say a culture of diversity after the fall of the Berlin Wall, give whatever name you want to give.
States are parochial culture, the idea that all problems are circumscribed and belong to that group established on the coercion of a state or a political and economic force that often subjugates those people who wish to live their “culture.”
It is the same as Christianity, while other monotheistic religions seek to universalize, even if there remain currents within them Sunnis and Shiites, for example, in the Islamic world, the “cultural” tendency is to form isolated groups where the tastes of these groups or these people do not express themselves in an integrated way.
In Christianity is a great misconception, the proposal experienced since the birth of Jesus is universal, rites and liturgy as well, but parochial feelings and groups are there, by the force of parochial coercion trying to impose universal thinking.
The fact narrated in Matthew for the liturgy on the day of the Magi (tomorrow) is symbolic but essential (Mt 1: 1-2): “(1) When Jesus was born in the city of Bethlehem in Judea in the time of King Herod, that some magicians from the East came to Jerusalem “, (2) asking:” Where is the king of the Jews, who is just born? We have seen his star in the East, and have come to worship him “.
Now the kings of the Magi, their “culture” is not known precisely, but they were neither Jews nor Christians, because this culture has just been born through Jesus, and only as an “abortifacient” (so the apostle will be called) an orthodox Jew who will experience a unique experience, and then bring to the “outside” of Judaism the proposal of JESUS to all peoples.
Perhaps without Paul this culture would remain parochial as a Jewish sect, but although present in many countries remains parochial, provincial and often, which is absurd, unrelated to the culture of local people, kings today would not enter the parish.
The coercive limitation of the nation-state of a people is what prevents it from integrating into the universal world culture, the wealth of each is not observed and is necessary changing to global vision.
From Homeric times to barbarism
03
Jan
From the times of the epic romances of the Iliad and the Odyssey, to this 
day violence has been part of history, especially in Western civilization, which reads in the first verse of Iliad:
For many historians this is the founding work of Western civilization, where Alexander regards the cynical philosopher Diogenes who spent his life in a barrel, to whom he would have been told that if he were not an emperor, he would like to be like a filthy wanderer from Athens.
Petr Sloterijk will reconstruct (in our view) this cynicism and anger that are in an event to trace a fundamental part of his thinking in two founding works of his thought, the Critique of Cynic Reason (1983) and Ira and Tempo (2006) in Brazil by the Estação Liberdade, besides the first volume of the three of the Spheres.
In addition to cynicism and age do we want to launch the probability of the emergence of a new thought, in times of anger and cynicism, a sincere and universal solidarity that embraces the whole world, would be possible? perhaps, but not without human forces to propel it.
What humanism can be born or reborn today, since in our view the Renaissance was nothing more than a return to humanism with the help of classical antiquity, but neoliberalism and the Enlightenment took a different path.
To clarify the philosopher Byung-Chul Han in The Society of Cansaço (edited in Brazil by Voices 2017): “The society of fatigue and performance today has traces of a coactive society, each carries with it a field, a field of work . The specific characteristic of this field of work is that each one is both a prisoner and guardian, victim and tormentor, master and slave. We explore ourselves. “(Han, 2017, 115)
Politics has become cynical because what we want is what Saramago called “the colonization of the other,” I hope the other has the same opinion as his own, we enter into a field of psychopolitics, where coercion becomes all arms, and the same as for the method.
Dialogue is done with hypocrisy and proselytism, all we want is that “our truth” prevails, there is no hermeneutic, but only one method: coercion.
A global solidarity humanism does not have the strength to develop in this field, but only there can be our way out, ecology, ecology, politics and development will only develop on a world scale, where forces of economic coercion are controlled.
How characterize year 2017
02
Jan
If I wanted to be simplistic I would say that it was a year of retreat, Trump’s 
inauguration, the threats in the Dutch, French and German elections where the Nazi reached 11% of the vote, but this is only one face of a change in progress, the discovery of Paradise Papers, where some great international names like Hamilton and Madonna appear and the biggest surprise was the Crown (not so much for those who know the English possessions in several islands of tax havens), Petr Sloterdijk characterizes our time as we might think in 2018, barbarism has never been so visible and reason has become a “cynical reason”.
The problem is the impotence of the discourse of change, incapable of a planetary vision with parochial solutions, finds itself impotent in the face of a massacre of financial capital and the speculations it makes all over the planet, not exempt from tax havens and corruptions, built barbarism as portrayed by Ruben’s painting of (1609): The Massacre of the Innocents (photo).
Petr Sloterdijk said: “We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the canon reveals a common love of inspiring messages. At the heart of humanism so understood we discover a cult or club fantasy: the dream of the portentous solidarity of those who have been chosen to be allowed to read. In the ancient world—indeed, until the dawn of the modern nation-states—the power of reading actually did mean something like membership of a secret elite; linguistic knowledge once counted in many places as the provenance of sorcery. In Middle English the word ‘glamour’ developed out of the word ‘grammar’. The person who could read would be thought easily capable of other impossibilities.“
What has happened with reading, with the vulgarization of culture, reading and even the arts, replaced by fundamentalisms, self-help and a culture of the ugly, horror and even terror, says Sloterdijk about our time: barbarie.
But not only speech about kit culture, so more in processo f despiritualization: “of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its large scale, the hardest to perceive, yet at once the most palpable and atmospherically powerful. Its counterpart is the informalization of spirituality – accompanied by its commercialization in the corresponding subcultures.” (Sloterdijk, Crítica da razão cínica, 1983).
Writing these Writer : “Only the artistic will to transform the future into a space of unlimited art-elevating chances enables us to understand the core of the procreation rule: ‘a creator shall you create [… ] a self-propelling wheel, a first movement’ (in the book You can chance your life, within translation to portugues
esse).
The technologies that will dominate 2018
28
Dec
One is undoubtedly the order of the day, but it must grow until 2021, it is
Virtual and Augmented Realities, with the difference that the first is the creation of a totally virtual environment while the second is an insertion of virtualities in the real environment, the Pokemon Go, second version of the little monsters grew in 2017.
Estimates from research groups such as Gartner and TechCrunch, is market will move more than 100 billion dollars by 2021, as next year is from Copa, Japan by example promises unprecedented broadcasts to 2022 in Quatar.
The internet of things is increasing its possibilities, how much we thought that the technology of networks 5G was distant in the USA already is in operation in many places and could be a reality next year, with this the internet of the things that depends on this transmission efficiency can reach new directions such as water systems, low cost energy and sophisticated traffic control systems, finally entering the IoT (Interner of Things) in people’s lives.
Another concern, but we do not know if the systems will become more efficient, are the security systems this year WannaCry affected telephone systems and FedEX, among others, reaching up to affect more than 150 countries, there are promises for 2018. Data production reached 2.5 exabytes per day (1 exabyte = 10 ^ 18 bytes), and BigData’s technology came to stay, but an important ally in the handling and handling of this data should be Artificial Intelligence (in Picture vision abourt polygonal brain), the intelligent agents that will dominate the Web 4.0 should appear this year, but the forecast to become reality on the Web is for 2020.
3D printer and nanotechnology are already reality, but should move forward, as well as the early reality of the 5G internet, we posted yesterday yesterday the “novelty” gadgets, the conceptual smartphone and the 360-degree camera, in technology sometimes surprise these things bombing the practical reality.
The technology is part of the history of humanity, we will post tomorrow about the year 2017, in facts.
