I don’t like Paulo Coelho. I think the only interesting things he does are co-authored with Raul Seixas. I could write a text about my opinions regarding Paulo Coelho, but they would have to be interesting and grounded. It is my job to write texts, I am free to choose topics and the reader knows this. So it would be reasonable to write to you about Paulo Coelho. If I were to write a text about this writer that I don’t like at all, I would take into account that speaking ill of Paulo Coelho is a national sport, and that he is very successful abroad. I wouldn’t just dump commonplaces in the reader’s face. I think I would write a text saying that we really are the best country in the world, since we know that Machado de Assis is infinitely superior to Paulo Coelho, while the rest of the planet barely knows who Machado de Assis is.
I’m here thinking about how I would go about working on my banal opinion about Paulo Coelho and transforming it in a text. The duo Frias & Porciuncula, however, does not write texts: it makes tweets. They tweet their banal opinions which, because they are banal, find many people who agree with them. And since, in these times of mental health crisis, people are evaluating each other based only on opinions expressed, solemnly disdaining actions taken, the duo Frias & Porciuncula finds a mountain of Bolsonarista supporters on social media.
Rational animals resigned
Tell me if it’s not all like that, for a lot of people today: I go to Twitter and type in the correct opinions; I go to WhatsApp groups and ditto; I go (if I don’t stay at home) to the meeting of friends and issue the correct opinions. So I’m accepted by my peers and it’s okay. But if I type or give an incorrect opinion, then the house falls – I’m a bad person! So a certain set of human beings, notably in the middle class (which is always more ideologized) end up looking like squawking birds instead of rational animals. Because there is a limited stock of correct opinions, which are repeated without thinking. In the end, it’s all sound, whether it’s the voice emitted by the mouth or the letters, thought by the head that reads. Whoever lives like this is a rational animal who has resigned: he has given up thinking and now he just wants to quack. With “Bolsonaro genocidal!”, in general, nothing is meant; you just want to squawk to attract the right crowd and repel wrong people.
I’m sure progressives have this mind that has resigned from rationality and is now croaking out the right words and opinions. But given that it is a mental structure, it would be rash to say that it is restricted to a political group.
The permanence of Frias and Porciuncula in the positions of Special Secretary for Culture and National Secretary for Incentive and Promotion of Culture shows this very well. Until the beginning of the Bolsonaro government, right-wing croaks said that “Olavo is right” and that artists are “Rouanet suckers”. It is possible to defend both statements using reason. But, as Olavo de Carvalho was a culturalist who defended the intrinsic value of art, the very least would be to say that such and such artists are suckers for Rouanet. You cannot disrespect the profession of artists and want high culture to be preserved.
Porciuncula, in one of his countless tweets, has already boasted that culture is not a profession for him. I don’t know what art he produces. I know that only in Marx’s mind will a man one day be a factory worker by day and a literary critic by night, without professionalization. In Antiquity, in the Middle Ages, there were the professions of musician and craftsman. How does Porciuncula, who has the experience of captain of the PM, think it’s a symphony orchestra? A group of friends who get together on the weekend?
These figures they got into office by croaking the right things. As I write these lines, Porciuncula is on Twitter saying not only that Paulo Coelho writes truck bumper phrases, but that he is a stoner and even a plagiarist. What does Brazil gain from this? That’s not a question croakers ask. The thing is quacking.
What do they do?
Head people
I’m sure progressives have this mind that has resigned from rationality and is now croaking out the right words and opinions. But given that it is a mental structure, it would be rash to say that it is restricted to a political group.
The permanence of Frias and Porciuncula in the positions of Special Secretary for Culture and National Secretary for Incentive and Promotion of Culture shows this very well. Until the beginning of the Bolsonaro government, right-wing croaks said that “Olavo is right” and that artists are “Rouanet suckers”. It is possible to defend both statements using reason. But, as Olavo de Carvalho was a culturalist who defended the intrinsic value of art, the very least would be to say that such and such artists are suckers for Rouanet. You cannot disrespect the profession of artists and want high culture to be preserved.
Porciuncula, in one of his countless tweets, has already boasted that culture is not a profession for him. I don’t know what art he produces. I know that only in Marx’s mind will a man one day be a factory worker by day and a literary critic by night, without professionalization. In Antiquity, in the Middle Ages, there were the professions of musician and craftsman. How does Porciuncula, who has the experience of captain of the PM, think it’s a symphony orchestra? A group of friends who get together on the weekend?
These figures they got into office by croaking the right things. As I write these lines, Porciuncula is on Twitter saying not only that Paulo Coelho writes truck bumper phrases, but that he is a stoner and even a plagiarist. What does Brazil gain from this? That’s not a question croakers ask. The thing is quacking.
What do they do?
Head people
sadia should ask what do Frias and Porciuncula. In this column, I have joined Josias Teófilo with regard to the duo’s inaction. As far as I know, it was he who first denounced the absence of plans for the celebration of the Bicentennial of Independence. Patriots should raise their hands to heaven for having placed in the presidency of the Republic 2022 someone who speaks well of his own country. If it were Haddad, I bet that in 2022 we would see an Anti-National Anti-Commemoration that would only speak ill of Brazil, saying that there is only slave, woman beater, LGBTQUIABO killer and forest arsonist. We would be presented as a Victimistan who needs a quota for everything. Perhaps Independence was yet another oppression engendered by toxic masculinity and we should not hand over our sovereignty to Macron, who is good and will know how to give love to the scorched giraffes of the Amazon.
That’s why left-wing artists don’t touch the Bicentennial issue, and it was up to a right-wing artist, personally close to Olavo de Carvalho, to draw attention to the inaction of the twitterers who are now taking over the Culture (right now, as I write, Porciuncula swears at Josias as a tramp and a pothead). Thanks to this inaction, it is quite possible that we will have Anti-National Anti-Commemorations in states and municipalities made with federal money, since Frias and Porciuncula took a bill by Jandira Feghali and used it to help artists in the pandemic.
If it is true that the elections spared us this spectacle at the federal level, no good was promoted by the federal government. In the midst of a shower of articles in several newspapers that followed the tune of Josias Teófilo, the pair of tweeters went public in July to say that that week I would present something. They didn’t present any project.
But if the duo is on Twitter calling Paulo Is pothead rabbit all right? Only in the mind of the mentally ill, who does not see the importance of actions.
Picuinha against the Ipiranga Museum
Meanwhile , who has a project is Doria. The government of São Paulo raised funds through the Rouanet Law and private initiative to restore the Ipiranga Museum (it can be seen that no, Rouanet is not just for MPB stars, and sometimes it is just a complement to the total resources) . It’s a shame this museum has been closed for so long, and I’m glad Doria is reopening it. The cry was given in São Paulo, it is good that the government there does not let the date go unnoticed. What is Frias’ behavior in the face of this? Scream about the reopening of the museum and say that it won’t let it reopen, no.
)If there is one thing that should be above any political fuss, it is the preservation of cultural heritage. There are no publishable qualifications for a Secretary of Culture that raises obstacles to the reopening of the Ipiranga Museum.
It’s a shame that those in charge of federal cultural policy only appear because of a shack on Twitter. This is a symptom of moral corruption, of lack of discernment. After all, actions matter more than Twitter noise.
