In the beginning, the people who showed up for the course didn't even understand what the point of it was because Brazilian cultural life had become so decadent, so bureaucratized that people only understood intellectual activity either as show business or as a professional activity . the pursuit of knowledge or the acquisition of Culture as an activity that exists in itself This message is addressed to all my students future students and readers when I started my philosophy seminar in 1987 the main objective was to try to form a new generation of Brazilian intellectuals free from the vices that had transformed intellectual life in Brazil into a communist antics unworthy of the slightest attention except as an object of contempt I remember that even during the military regime there was the phenomenon of the so-called surplus surpluses were the students who took the entrance exam and who passed the entrance exam but there was no place for them at the university, the smart military government just thought they should open a university on every corner and satisfy the demand of these people for education, in fact it's not education they want, they just want a diploma to be able to penetrate the civil service, a recent survey showed that less than 2% of Brazilian university students aspire to become entrepreneurs, they all want a job, 98% want a job and of that 98%, certainly the majority want a job either in the state bureaucracy or in the University itself, therefore the Brazilian University is essentially a trainer of bureaucrats, it is not a trainer of the dominant class in the capitalist sense, as the Marxists say, they themselves, this is the most incredible thing in the world because the Marxist Professor himself who works at the university is within the bureaucracy and who is experiencing that sociological situation that he should be able to identify himself he says that the university exists to form the capitalist ruling class That's right, that means his existential situation contradicts what he is saying the university in Brazil exists to form the bureaucracy and above all to form the virtual bureaucracy This is militancy, so somehow the Brazilian University was destined to become what it later became, that is, a gigantic ST school. That's right, where the individual's Marxist affiliation is enough to qualify him as university professor and make him, perhaps, even in the opinion of others, an imminent intellectual, although together they are all semi-literate like Dr Emir sad.
That's right, they are totally unqualified people, let's say, dedicated entirely to the most vulgar communist propaganda, there are people who, let's say 50 years ago, would not have had a position of prominence not even in the communist environment because 50 years ago there was in fact a communist intelligentsia with some demands, nowadays in Brazil there is no longer even that, Brazil is a country where even a disqualified person like esp partin de Morais becomes a great intellectual through why because he wrote half a dozen of works on communist propaganda and communist strategy that's all he did Okay, so with that the black man becomes a philosopher recognized as a great Thinker etc. The Brazilian University is full of these people of course that from the moment that what ISO, we are going to say, happened became a widespread and dominant fact where there is practically no place left for anyone at the university except for these people, it is clear that Brazil left the intellectual history of world, you compare what intellectual life was in Brazil in the 50s and 60s with what it is today, okay, you compare a first world country with Zambia, okay, you understand ? 40 years ago we still live there, Gilberto has another Maria Carp, right, there's José Guilherme Merquior, there are people of world relevance, let's say, which doesn't mean that they don't have them today, we have them right now, they have Bruno Tolentino, but these people are totally marginalized they don't appear they don't take up space in the cultural supplements they don't have they are not studied in universities or anything to say the bulk of intellectual life whether at the university or in the cultural supplements is just communist propaganda at best camouflaged as a literate debate or else it's Inter promotion Inter hype Inter flattery between party figures So it means that intellectual life has become an instrument of social ascension for communist organizations that really dominated the space so when that happens the country is dead In fact the country when Let's say if you let yourself be seduced by communism because you are already very sick, you are already very decadent, so it's more or less like the individual letting himself be seduced by drugs, that is, the experience of drugs is something that black people do when they are already, so to speak, with the foot in the grave is already wanting to destroy itself so the drug helps to destroy itself more quickly communism is exactly the same thing the final temptation that completes a descent is going down to hell arrives at the door of hell and knocks when it knocks for delivery drug or the Communist Party card having seen this situation at that time and clearly having a certain foreshadowing of what would come in the following decades and Thank God I was endowed with this with this ability to make relatively certain historical prognoses not by guesswork nor by for prophetic gifts but for ah very well founded historical analysis so at that time I had already more or less realized what was coming and it was precisely in view of this that I created my philosophy seminar course because since I couldn't interfering in the situation of the Catholic Church, I could at least help to improve a little , attenuate a little the second cause of the national debate, which is the decomposition of the intellectuality.
undertaking mainly that I realized that nothing could be done in this sense within the University institution, it would be necessary to go beyond it and in a certain way overcome it and subjugate it through the quality of our production through the quality of our work, so I started with this spirit, so to speak. say missionary at the beginning, the people who showed up for the course didn't even understand what the point of it was because Brazilian cultural life had become so decadent, so bureaucratized that people only understood intellectual activity either as show business or as a professional university activity they didn't understand In other words, the search for knowledge or acquisition of Culture as an activity that exists in itself and that is actually the inspiring center of all this, then cultural life, intellectual life, became a function of either the media or the university instead of being, on the contrary, as she had always been, the inspirer of these two institutions and the reason for their existence, then there came total alienation, meaning that inspiration, that desire, that is the objective in view of which the institutions are created, the means ends up being suffocated by these institutions by and through these means that themselves become the ends.
