Portugal without a future – Observer
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Parliamentary democracy put into practice and the eventual recovery of autarkic dynamism are positive certainties that belong to the revolution of the April 25, 1974 revolution, from any point of view.
But in its wake, in contrast, in the depth and gravity of its consequences, there was also the clear and possibly inexorable last of a “dominant sociology of education” that was once actively efficient and mobilized by certain leftist political sectors of the revolutionary process and that stayed and has bad results.
A “sociology of education” in permanent turmoil towards laxity and irresponsibility, towards the leveling down, the emptying of being and duty, the deification of having and the right to everything, the lack of critical sense, the withering of the idea and of pure and simple reason and the possibility of integral knowledge, of bad upbringing and stupidity, under a background of permanent and persistent ideological exaltation.
They launched themselves as the foundations of a “new man” and a “new society”. Made from the discarding and abandonment of the human being and the other (a process that was practiced in the ill-fated method of Portuguese decolonization in Africa).
A society that exists totally without people, but inept, strong and often isolated, transversally secular and supposedly rationalist culturally traditionalist, without moral, religious or political (in the sense).
A process of families, families, other social agents and the Church started from the self, from quality schools, to triumph, from rumor to an intrinsically social structure.
From socialization, we moved on to asocialization, with new social and cultural learning made essentially on TV and social networks.
The knowledge and training of integral training became mere technical learning (made in blocks) and from there, one step became the absolutely false jargon in terms of the “most prepared generation ever”.
But we have reached an impasse. Because the “most prepared action ever” does not find work, nor quality remuneration and massive emigration.
The country is divided, the people disorganized. There is no longer a common dream or design, so we don’t want a new projector for any project that adds and challenges.
Portugal lacks true elites (which are worthless without moral and ethical values), therefore, without leadership (politically, the incumbent absolute socialist majority is an oligarchic farce of bad groceries).
On the way, what was once (well) done is broken and our historic glories are committed. And by the way, for example: how not to honor and not commemorate the discovery of the maritime route to India, not to honor or praise in a permanent and intelligent way D. Afonso Henriques, D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, Vasco da Gama, Gago Coutinho, Camões or Pessoa and all our other heroes that one day helped to create and project a free, independent, intelligent and competent Portugal? As an example, suggest, idea, for example, the also obvious and urgent idea of creating a world class museum of discoveries located in Lisbon?
Be that as it may, it is not enough to produce a counter-ideology in the abstract, to oppose an ideological apparatus to an ideological apparatus.
The commitment has to be different. Which is certainly much more difficult and much more time consuming. But it’s the only possible, as soon as possible. Get back on track. To descend from the false pedestal of the “new man” simply to the reality of being a man that he is. Back to the truth. Free ourselves from illiteracy, the best fuel of ideology.
Believing that we can be free.