Castelo Branco Digital Diary – Portugal: The poor who refuses to be rich
We have always been, throughout our history, as a nation, poor people who, faced with the possibility of getting rich and living with dignity, we refused. Even if it looks like wealth and conditions worthy of its people, it has to be at the same time, synonymous that means that if we are born poor in identity, as a people, in order to maintain our identity, culture and values, we will remain poor.
It happened with the time of maritime navigation, in addition to the discoveries and expansion of the sea empire, later, with the first republic, then the new state, or some historians, the republic, with the continuation of the mentality of the poor and unfortunate, where only as ruling classes, political and social elites, had to gain, since this state of indigence guaranteed the ability of a people to think and take their destiny into their own hands.
According to a control of ignorance, with a mediocre elite, with the people being totally reserved and private, among the political elite, power to a people to be totally reserved, and some puppets of the regime, and some puppets of the regime, ap( n) of freedom.
The 25th of April had arrived, with it the hope that it would bring us politicians who selflessly would cause public, the superiors of the nation and the people. Politicians were expected who, coming from the people, would build a nation, based on a vision that “a cultured people, capable and supported by a society built on the values of freedom, would make a prosperous, fair and rich nation”. Nothing would turn out to be more wrong.
Of all the ideological ones as promises, left to right, all of them, from left to right, centered on their ideological values, which, however paradoxical they wanted to defend, were the first of the democratic era of this new Portugal of supposed freedom. These politicians failed by neglecting the path that a modern Portugal would achieve in the future, through the development of the maxim of – a strong people, makes a capable nation – in infamous of the maxims, from the left to the right of – a dependent and non-thinking people, makes a country subjected to politicians, in a dance of power of a bipolar democracy.
In the last 100 years, there have been 41 years of a parliamentary dictatorship and 48 years of a (par)lamenting dictatorship. The first by the autocratic state and the second by the apathetic state.
In these 48 years, more winds and storms will arrive than the promised calms of April announced. If the first years were started by the disorder and orientation of the whole society, which is normal, in a transition phase a nation was trapped, for 41 years, in a system that reduced liberties, civic and entrepreneurial initiatives and free participation of a market open to the outside, the later years and already belonging to the grandfather of the current European Union, the then EEC, we kept the same status as a nation. Nothing changed. The other politicians took turns, but the politics were the same. Generation after generation society was being renewed, the uneducated people acquiring knowledge of mentality, studies continued and renewed, but as the same.
And now Portugal, how do you want to write your story?
The new opportunities are there. The world is reconfiguration due to post-war geopolitics, the climate agenda and the crises, humanitarian food, resulting therefrom, putting Portugal at a kind of crossroads of unique opportunities in its history to change and for which and how we need to have the audacity and bravery of our ancestors, under which the old people of the restelo resigned and criticized for not looking at ourselves from the point of view that, from justice, we should look at ourselves in which we should start where we were born, die.
The location and characteristics of Portugal are unique conditions in this new reality of challenges that we will face and that will arise as humanity to the world. A country that has a maritime area with a unique potential for the production of green energies – wind, photovoltaic, hydrogen and biofuels, using this sea of ours again, to launch new faces, such as exclusive offshore platforms that can make Portugal the power that it was in the past, today, facing a world dependent on what we have to offer.
A sea that allows the creation of a new industry of products, to fulfill the new ones that will emerge with the Climate Agenda, both in the restoration and preservation of ecosystems, as in the production of eco-products, and not least, the management of a new The first country of seaweed capture, which could make Portugal the only carbon dioxide capture (GHG) country, not the first greenhouse effect capture country (GHG), how to go, transforming our surplus product, num num. Countries, carbon and others, have achieved growth, albeit nationally unreliable and heavy on shipments.
It will be in the thought-provoking light of the history of the nobles say030, in time and if the magnifying glass of the history of the nobles say0s end, the world new country, once again, opportunities and whether to switch the role of final nobles.
Will history remain, a poor or a noble people?!
Today, this is the unknown, an answer that only provided from us. All of us as a nation, in order to do so, must drink from the characteristic of the best of our ancestors and not of what our worst of these have given us, this time renouncing to the constant denial of the heritage that is now, again, promised to us, by an urgency circumstantial world, intrinsic to every great opportunity.
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