QB Rhetoric

 

Obviously, I fire him.

I will not go back to the story of the famous phrase, so often used in different times, in different ways and, in the end, condemned to absolute ostracism. He would have fired him, if he had not been lured by the Pide, into that trap, in the land of our brothers, murdered without mercy or clemency. The fearless general died, we will never know if he died with him, or without him. Of blurred fear. We live in similar times that call for anti-heroes or private heroes. It is vice versa. I tell you that on the agenda, there are many in line to shout the password that rhetoric has brought them and guaranteed the paparoca (sudden and illicit enrichment). Serving themselves of power, forgetting what it was to serve the state, which has become swear words for ethics and morals, integrity and consensus, uprightness and stoicism. Greed wins elections, along with abstention, which, without saying anything, without substantial presence, reflects the fearful lack of interest in the future of nations. And this greed feeds the plutocracy, which is born from the surrender of power to fear, bad luck and the opportunism of somitic and bloated strategists. And many have died because of it, many will continue to die. Whenever a dictator becomes a martyr, 100 dictators cry out for a premature power, still crawling among the obscurity, the slow movements of a jaguar and the courage to betray the collective. To benefit from Pluto, who has been lacking them since past lives. Humberto did not manage the feat of firing him. He was fired, obviously. I tell you that many fearless generals lurk on the corners of big cities, covered by the lightness of a people stupefied by AI and the comforts of modernism. Ah, progress! The carrot in front of the donkey, the cakes and the fools! With each of these adventures, I say enough is enough, enough is enough, a marketing ploy, that you are so ill that a catheterization was "scheduled" for you. You were luckier than me. That I had a heart attack six hours before giving in to the evidence. That I had to deal with the catheterization and the stent in the emergency room, if such a process had not been expedited. They, the dictators, are taught by the media, by social networks, by the expediting of tik toks, by telegram and facebook and they are gaining ground. That only fattens the stupidity of others and their own, but they persist, that dictators have always been stubborn and trained in war strategy, marketing ploys, of course, the doctor knows very well how to shout to the heavens, appealing for the pious vote! And when I talk about these pseudo-educated politicians, I always remember that it was not the people who made the 25th of April, who defeated censorship, who did justice to the courage of the 16th century conquests and the Aljubarrota bakers, no! Do not forget that fear keeps us hostage, obedient to any system. The schooling that we believe came to underpin interventionist citizenship, has, in fact, at the beginning of the 21st century, together with the shadow of scientific progress (the networks, AI, deliberate consumerism spread to the four winds, it is not accidental), created easy ways, increased corruption, nepotism, clientelism, widespread blindness and kept the people orderly within the lines of the democratic possible. However, it is worth remembering the sad reality: peace seems to have never been achieved by normal means, without misery and death, without war and with some luck, opened the eyes of the majority and consolidated collective wills. At the time, it was Cabralism, long before Salazarism, that came to strengthen liberalism. We have to reinvent Maria da Fonte without weapons. But we cannot go out and vote for the same old thing, when there is no identification with government programs. We need to operate our brains, use our intelligence in our favor and not against us. The weather is inviting abstentions that may be designed by majorities or a lack of responsibility towards our children, who are committed to the future. The beach is inviting, the picnics, the overflow. Do not forget that there are many days when a government has to govern, whether it is to govern or to tear down the pillars and ideals that we have.

Long live Maria da Fonte, damn it!