Hello Felipe,
> me and some others have used Brazilian government's money
> to do some stuff.
I do not want to object the fact that sometimes public money can allow
good projects to develop, far from me that.
But, in the specific, my fresh impression from Brazil was the following:
we cannot compare Europe and Brazil on a political level because the
situation is completely different, so, in Italy we would say:
2 pesi, 2 misure
(up to you to get this translated.)
In Brazil, for what i could see with my eyes, no one, who is not in a way
part of the privilege-society, would even know what the word "software"
means.
In front of radio Muda, once, a friend told me one of the most interesting
sentence i heard in the last ten years:
"the only thing human beings so far accomplished, is the capability of
speaking, because everybody can do it. One day, maybe, everybody will be
able to see the Fibonacci sequence present in nature just watching the
surroundings, but, at the very moment, very few people are able to
perceive it."
I had to notice that in Europe we still think a skill is a reach of
humanity if one person is able to perform it. For example, the same summer
i was smoking joints in Campinas, newspapers in Europe were affirming:
'humans can swim at the polo North', just because one man did it.
That is an exception, not a general capability.
So, if we extend 'democratic' thinking, it is true: the only capability
all humans are sharing, is the capability to emit noises that make sense.
In Brazil this is very visible: the difference between poor and rich is
very wide, and basically the so called 'middle class' is starting to
develop right now.
There was no idea of revolution, nor communism, before the Middle class,
that is the bourgeoisie, existed.
In Brazil this is very recent, and the subjected society, does not have
words nor voice anywhere than in their own pain and anger.
Free software will not save them, not now. It might help the future
generations, but still, nowadays, it is a high privilege, there, to be
able to think, and express, and formulate an idea.
Lots of people cannot write their native language. (Can you imagine code?)
At the same time, if in Europe, in the underground, automatic machines
sell Snickers and Mars bars, i saw machines distributing books in the
underground of Sao Paulo.
What type of books? Marx, Linux manuals, radical philosophers and so on.
So i guess the governors think different than here.
Still, most of the people who can think radical, are quite rich, compared
to European standards.
(correct me if i am wrong, this might be a very partial impression of a
tourist.)
I was born in Milan, and, where my parents still live, the population
living and sleeping on the street is quite wide. But they are actually
organised, they make their own houses under the highway bridge, they use
trash as furniture, as i often do as well, they own the kipple, and render
it a treasure.
In Brazil i saw people not only sleeping on the street: i saw people
crashing down here now, in the middle of the street, at noon, because they
do not have the energy to make a step further.
I guess the Marxs books, and the public money, and the free software, are
not for them.
In Brazil, anyone with a cultural education parallel to mine, has _way_
much more money than i ever had in my greener days.
In this sense, i think it is good the government is funding free software,
but that does not surprise me as much: money keeps circulating inside a
certain clan.
// maybe all i said here is bullshit, or part of it is: this is not an
opinion, because i did not have enough time to formulate such a thing in
there. these are thoughts i am sharing here now with you all. //
At the same time, i hold the Dutch happy fake creative industry is much
dirtier: it is a malicious monster feeding itself with original subversive
spirits: you are the opponent, someone has to do it; now that i pay you,
you become an employee, employed, servant. You work for me, i use your
energy.
FUCK THAT SHIT.
Xname
(i do not mean here that the subversive European spirits are more original
than the Brazillians, ehy !* )
