«A forma inteligente de manter as pessoas passivas e obedientes é limitar estritamente o espectro da opinião aceitável, estimulando concomitante e muito intensamente o debate dentro daquele espectro... Isto dá às pessoas a sensação de que o livre pensamento está pujante, e ao mesmo tempo os pressupostos do sistema são reforçados através desses limites impostos à amplitude do debate».Noam Chomsky

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate." – Noam Chomsky

It will reopen now and then.



14 de abril de 2009

Soeiro Pereira Gomes - zé lérias



Gestaçô - Baião

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Today, there are just 100 years, was born the great Portuguese writer Soeiro Pereira Gomes (Gestaçô, Baiao 14 April 1909).
"(...) In the book ( "A Engrenagem" - Soeiro Pereira Gomes), the narrator, through the figure of Zé Lérias (which, after all, might not say so "lérias" (silly man) as seems ...) brings us to reflect the consequences of unbridled progress, based solely on the expectation of immediate profit and unaware of human values: « But if each one cultivate a courel, had bread in abundance, at least. » (...)"

2 comentários:

Å®t Øf £övë disse...

...e como ele estava certo...!!!

Abraço.

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