"Experience shows that, in all countries where democracy can develop peacefully in accordance with its nature, corruption reigns in its most shameful form, and no one considers it necessary to conceal their frauds."
~ Georges Sorel
I've been thinking about Sergio's Buarque's assertion that Brazilians tend to prefer the image of Jesus as a child instead of him as an adult.
This is an expression of Brazil's inherent anarchical and egalitarian values.
In his words:
“What such an attitude represents is a characteristic transposition into the religious sphere of that aversion to distance which seems, at least thus far, to constitute the most distinctive trait of the Brazilian spirit.”
Jesus as a brother is more palatable than God as a Father.
Western greatness was extinguished in the Portuguese and Spanish colonies because they racemixed. Faded from relevance within generations. The thought of what could have been is genuinely depressing.
Western greatness lasted for centuries and continues to this day in the British Dominions (+USA) because they perpetuated the White race and usually legislated against race mixing, even though it was completely socially anathema anyway.
Western greatness was entirely racial. We achieved what we achieved because we are who we are.
Western greatness was extinguished in the Portuguese and Spanish colonies because they racemixed. Faded from relevance within generations. The thought of what could have been is genuinely depressing.
Western greatness lasted for centuries and continues to this day in the British Dominions (+USA) because they perpetuated the White race and usually legislated against race mixing, even though it was completely socially anathema anyway.
Western greatness was entirely racial. We achieved what we achieved because we are who we are.
The sole British colony in South America, Guyana, is the most racially mixed country on earth. The average person there is 1/4 Indian, 1/4 South Asian, 1/4 African and 1/4 British. European colonies in South America and the Caribbean are like that, not just the Spanish and Portuguese ones, because most European immigrants did not want to move to tropical climates.
"The war provoked a lesson of hatred for this soul-less machine, of big-wig money-government, and these masses of half dead people, for whom personal extinction is such a tiny step, out of half-living into no-living, so what does it matter?"
W.Lewis, Blasting and Bombardiering