Leonardo Boff
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Many of us have known what it meant the ideology of national security under military dictatorships in Latin America. State security was the first value. In fact it was the security of capital so that it would continue with its business and its logic of accumulation, rather than specifically about security. This ideology, in the background, assumed that each citizen is a real or potential subversive. Therefore, to be monitored and eventually arrested, interrogated and, if refused, tortured, sometimes to death. Thus, they broke the bonds of trust without which society loses its meaning. They lived under a heavy veil of mistrust and fear.
I say all this on purpose of the security apparatus surrounding the visit of President of the United States, Barack Obama, Brazil. That worked in full security ideology, not national, but presidential. Not have confidence in the capacity of Brazilian organizations to ensure the safety of the president. Accompanied him throughout the U.S. security apparatus. Immense size helicopters came so monstrous that there were few places where they could land, armored limousines, soldiers lined with so many technological devices that looked more like killing machines to human beings. Special shooters positioned on rooftops and in strategic locations with staff intelligence. Every corner where would the "imperial court", the neighboring streets, houses and shops were monitored and reviewed. For security reasons, was canceled the speech he was to give the public in downtown Rio, in Cinelandia. The people invited to hear his speech at the National Theatre had to pass before a thorough review. What
reveals such a scenario? We're in a world sick and inhumane. Before you were afraid of the forces of nature, before which we did not have much defense, demons or gods threatening revenge. Today we are afraid of ourselves, of weapons of mass destruction, wars of tremendous destruction that some countries carry out central. We are afraid of the assaults on the street. We are afraid to go to the mountains where poor communities live. We are afraid even of street children can threaten us.
What we are not afraid?
classics already taught that the laws, the organization of the State and public order are essential for the liberation from fear and to live together peacefully. Formalizing
we thought, first, that fear is part of our existence. There are four basic fears: fear to take away the individuality and we become dependent or a simple number, the fear of being cut off relations and punish us loneliness and isolation, the fear of changes that may affect the profession, health, and to limit their lives, fear to inevitable realities and final as death. The way we face these existential fears marks our process of individuation. If we do so with courage, overcome difficulties, we grow. If we run away and try to avoid them, just weakened and even ashamed.
Despite all our science that creates the illusion of omnipotence, become afraid of the Earth and its forces. Who controls the clash of tectonic plates? Who stop an earthquake and a tsunami slows down? We are nothing to such uncontrollable energy, exacerbated by global warming.
Fear, then, is part of our human condition. Becomes pathology and neurosis when seeking help in a way that disrupts the entire social reality and makes the space a kind of battlefield, as was assembled by U.S. security forces. If a president visiting a country and its people must take risks that are part of life. Otherwise, the best authorities on both sides would meet on a ship at sea, safe from fear and danger. The security strategies only reveal what kind of world we live: people are afraid of other human beings. We are hostages of fear and, therefore, without freedom and joy of living and receive a visitor.
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08/04/2011 ----------
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Many of us have known what it meant the ideology of national security under military dictatorships in Latin America. State security was the first value. In fact it was the security of capital so that it would continue with its business and its logic of accumulation, rather than specifically about security. This ideology, in the background, assumed that each citizen is a real or potential subversive. Therefore, to be monitored and eventually arrested, interrogated and, if refused, tortured, sometimes to death. Thus, they broke the bonds of trust without which society loses its meaning. They lived under a heavy veil of mistrust and fear.
I say all this on purpose of the security apparatus surrounding the visit of President of the United States, Barack Obama, Brazil. That worked in full security ideology, not national, but presidential. Not have confidence in the capacity of Brazilian organizations to ensure the safety of the president. Accompanied him throughout the U.S. security apparatus. Immense size helicopters came so monstrous that there were few places where they could land, armored limousines, soldiers lined with so many technological devices that looked more like killing machines to human beings. Special shooters positioned on rooftops and in strategic locations with staff intelligence. Every corner where would the "imperial court", the neighboring streets, houses and shops were monitored and reviewed. For security reasons, was canceled the speech he was to give the public in downtown Rio, in Cinelandia. The people invited to hear his speech at the National Theatre had to pass before a thorough review. What
reveals such a scenario? We're in a world sick and inhumane. Before you were afraid of the forces of nature, before which we did not have much defense, demons or gods threatening revenge. Today we are afraid of ourselves, of weapons of mass destruction, wars of tremendous destruction that some countries carry out central. We are afraid of the assaults on the street. We are afraid to go to the mountains where poor communities live. We are afraid even of street children can threaten us.
What we are not afraid?
classics already taught that the laws, the organization of the State and public order are essential for the liberation from fear and to live together peacefully. Formalizing
we thought, first, that fear is part of our existence. There are four basic fears: fear to take away the individuality and we become dependent or a simple number, the fear of being cut off relations and punish us loneliness and isolation, the fear of changes that may affect the profession, health, and to limit their lives, fear to inevitable realities and final as death. The way we face these existential fears marks our process of individuation. If we do so with courage, overcome difficulties, we grow. If we run away and try to avoid them, just weakened and even ashamed.
Despite all our science that creates the illusion of omnipotence, become afraid of the Earth and its forces. Who controls the clash of tectonic plates? Who stop an earthquake and a tsunami slows down? We are nothing to such uncontrollable energy, exacerbated by global warming.
Fear, then, is part of our human condition. Becomes pathology and neurosis when seeking help in a way that disrupts the entire social reality and makes the space a kind of battlefield, as was assembled by U.S. security forces. If a president visiting a country and its people must take risks that are part of life. Otherwise, the best authorities on both sides would meet on a ship at sea, safe from fear and danger. The security strategies only reveal what kind of world we live: people are afraid of other human beings. We are hostages of fear and, therefore, without freedom and joy of living and receive a visitor.
Receive e-mail
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