voice of portugal in the world
This great theme involves taking responsibility for having some picture of the changing globe that we are going to meet. Beforehand I need to make it clear that I assume that the world of my generation, in parting, had the discipline foreseen and organized by the Peace of 1939-945 drawn into the “swamp”, abandoned its confidence in the International Criminal Court because, with joy to the former US president, no state collaborated, the aristocratization of the UN with the right to veto the five powers hurt the dimension of equality of cultures, beliefs, policies and finally the globe is the victim of several competitions, in which China stands out , all ignored by public lines that the greatest combat, a defender by the Armed Forces is that of the epidemic that attacks all living beings.
Portugal, in an assessment, is not the one of the land that fell to it, or where it ran aground, as Cardinal Manuel Clemente once said, but those who, through the resources offered, started the westernization of the world, which won, lost, recovered, and became independent from an existing and known process. We are left with Portugal with its own language, protected cultural protection, to exist and intervene positively in the disintegrating globe, but with hope. I will therefore admit that Language, more than once the main instrument of action, is the theme that, in its various resources, supports us in the battle of hope in this century without a compass. There is a conflict between specialists who put in the foreground the “Portuguese cultural importance”, a concrete concept attributed as a negative note to Gilberto Freyre, and in order to safeguard the language and its use, notice that it is about “imperialism”. For some, the content was felt, that’s why it was adopted by Sarmento Rodrigues as Governor of Guinea, and by me in the courses created at ISCSP, which is now not in question, but it could not be forgotten, that the circumstance in this case is just that the Portuguese language, as an instrument of the past, had an uncertain and unformulated present. Opinion to be accepted, with or without doubt, whether the Nation formed the State, or whether the State formed the Nation, having attracted the conclusion of Lord Acton (The History of Liberty and Other Essays, London, 1907) according to which the rule is that the State should form the Nation.
To emphasize, I will recall that D. Afonso Henriques, dreaming of being a conqueror, made him King, with the recognition, in fact, on the day of Santiago, in 1139, which the Pope recognized forty years after Ourique. But I recognize that D. Diniz’s information was essential, with the decision to nominate the competent Admiral for the renewal of the Fleet, the Forest to rebuild the ships to guide them, and University Coimbra to assume the merit and the language to individualize the Nação, reinforces the armed dimensions with the presence of D. Nuno Alvares Pereira, and finally, in the case of D. Fernando, to implement the principle that the Nation elects the King, and thus begins the glorious Aviz Dynasty, accepting the concept of illustrious Barzun of the difference of King (first among equals) is finally monarch (supreme authority of the Nation).
It is this power that uses language effectively not only internally, but in summary autonomous diplomacy. In the history of discoveries and conquests, after Filipe of Spain was also King of Portugal, the use of language in politics, an expression of the will and power of Portugal. The dialogue between Abbot Correia da Serra (born on June 6, 1750 and died on September 11, 1823), founder of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences, in the reign of D. Maria Primeira, with his American friend is perhaps historic. It is precisely the growing importance of the concerns of each European State with its private interests, the crisis in the European structure and the deepening of its hesitation between integration along the federalist line and the Union in line with the equality of States, that makes the fact that a US-European solidarity is not invoked, it is visibly weakening, with the US returning to the manifest destiny of the Pacific and considering the Atlantic a sometimes uncomfortable rearguard. Which helps to forget that it is the West that is in decay, that the violent European crisis is part of an unprecedented global crisis, and that countries like Portugal are seeing the situation of exogenous, meager States, hit by the poverty line growing. revives the Roman limes in the North of the Mediterranean. Therefore, they must not omit or forget the power of voice against the voice of power that emerges, above the line, ignoring that, without a Union, with a final model not yet defined, it is not just the voice of each European State, or the voice of Anarchized union, it is the voice of the West that will be at least strongly weakened in the globalism still little known of the entry into this century without a compass.