A series of worrying things have been happening in the world recently. Throughout the 20th century, humanity did not go a single year without war. The current scenario is: financial crisis, conservatism advancing in several countries – including a growth in neo-Nazi and xenophobic thinking.
There is no day when the word crisis is not printed in the newspapers. Columns and reports break down the situation. They explain that the left created a monotonous welfare state in Europe, caused by debt and accompanied by a lack of productivity. This, experts say, is what has motivated the dissatisfied population to vote for the right and its neoliberalism from hell – especially in countries where unemployment is around 40%.
I don't know anything about economics and international politics. But this advance of more conservative ideas leaves me very worried and very discouraged. It's as if the world is becoming a more boring place to live. You wake up and enter the big news portals. Click on all notes.
At the end of the day, after many hours, the impression is that the news is the same and nothing important happened there. The subjects also seem to just make you yawn. They cause severe cooling. Everything very aseptic, clean. Does no one disturb order in this country anymore? Just Bolsonaro and Rafinha Bastos?
Where are the real challenges, the great thinkers? The social movement? What about sex, guys? Does no one have sex anymore? You are all very stressed, nervous, dissatisfied. I wanted serious research into Brazilians' sexual lives. To understand what is happening to you and to no longer feel almost celibate.
Engage with people. To get laid. It is increasingly difficult. Love someone then, give yourself? It's easier to finish Super Mario 3 on the Super Nintendo. Even pornography and hooking up are banned in the conduct manuals of the new current morality. Quite frankly.
It's also difficult to form an opinion. People who already have their opinions made up about things can raise their hands to the heavens and be grateful. There is a debate at the moment about PLC 122/06 – which criminalizes homophobia – which should be put to a vote tomorrow in the Senate Human Rights Committee.
Apparently, part of the project text was cut in a negotiation between Marta and Crivella and sectors of the church. There are a lot of people against it and serious people. From Pomba to Jean Wyllys, passing through Vitor Ângelo. He says that Luiz Mott and Beto de Jesus are also against the current text. And now Jose? What position to take? What about the project was changed? What will happen if the PLC is approved as is? Does the community win or lose?
I followed the trajectory of PLC 122/06 for about three years as soon as it arrived in the Senate. In reality, the The Cape was one of the few sites that reported this achievement, which only happened because the deputies opposed to the project took a nap on the eve of the recess at the end of 2006.
This site reported on a series of attempts in which the then senator Fátima Cleide tried to put this project to a vote. All blocked by malicious requests for views from low people like the Crivella and permitted by the parliamentary rules themselves. With Marta, the PLC's visibility increased. The press seems to have woken up to the issue – perhaps because of the homophobic attacks in Rio and São Paulo.
Still, I don't know what stance to take on this. I only have a slight impression that approving PLC 122 – even with the text changed with regard to religious people – could actually be good. Both sides, however, seem to have strong valid arguments. And they seem to keep attacking each other. Which makes the quality of the debate drop a little.
Yesterday they even talked about censorship on Twitter regarding the tag about PLC 122. Could it be? Isn't this the gay victimism that Aguinaldo Silva refers to? That tag didn’t become a Trending Topic – or did it? I ended up not even following it, I confess – due to lack of additions/mentions or Twitter censorship? Anyway. Just some reflections. Now let's get it sorted out. For my part, I just hope I don't fall prey to the IRS tomorrow.
