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life is totally invaded by merchants and we no longer have any Nazarene willing to send them away with cracks of the whip and finally reveal the forgotten real life.
In a world without political convictions, without ideologies or beliefs, the citizen-consumer is duck à l’orange for capital. Take Brasil easy, enjoy yourself and rest in the easy chairs of Toyo Ito. Let losers suffer!
To force riches to be shared out is a failed revolution today.All that remains is for us to preach compassion towards the weak, the active struggle of our personal attitudes and non-participation in a world of these characteristics.Against the wealth of a few all that is possible is compassionate redistribution and the sharing of work among the rest. But without this substantial ethical modification and a change in our behaviour, there is no way out of this quagmire in which we are immersed. A new approach is essential, as failure to see that the poverty in the world is the permanent witness to our infamy and that we are establishing injustice as a lesser flaw in the system amounts to continuing to collaborate with the status quo.
A world in which anyone who is not pragmatic is a prophet
or a bothersome preacher of imaginary disasters. But although we know that our system cannot sustain a development model such as the current one, we turn our back on the evidence and vote for the candidate proposed by companies.The vision of the world as merchandise has dehumanised existence, and this is
the culmination of utilitarian life and the basic replacement
of any relationship with transaction, and of bonds with use of other people.A significant nothing which has been legitimised.
A generalised barter which has made us sale bargains, recruit- ers of customers, gold seekers and slaves of a precarious world of employment.
Today, the gaze of the other is influenced by use and utility. Everything is a trick to take possession of dough and stripping art of ideology is the final consequence of this practice. Art is an unprotected witness that has been left at the mercy of the
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