Obscurantism (the new name for Dictatorship) cannot extinguish the light of democracy: the best weapon is honor.

[...] there is always the alternative of amending the law or the Constitution, without any affront to the Court [...].

The excerpt above comes from the last (and first) article published in Crusoé Magazine, written by the former Minister of Justice and former judge (the leading figure) in Operation Lava Jato.

We know that American imperialism is a particular way of dominating other peoples. However, today we live in a conjuncture imposed by a new geopolitical landscape, where imperialism is becoming a thing of the past. But it is obvious that within our territory, especially now, many revere the American flag.

The seigneurial era is also a military era, and a religious era. The historian Jacques Le Goff describes these "times" very well in his classic: The Civilization of the Medieval West, and we can then draw an interesting parallel between that era and the current Brazilian national situation, where we experience fierce attacks on the "time" of the constituent powers.

In these (new obscurantist) times, who can truly measure time? In the Middle Ages, for example, religious time took precedence over others: social and agricultural. And canonical hours regulated activities through the artifact: the bell.

Here in contemporary Brazil, after the 2018 elections, we, the people, survive, governed by the ringing of the bell of decrees, and the dismantling, the distorted reforms, which generated new vassals and servants.

Servitude follows the needle of misinformation, and poverty is the watchword. In reality, they want the CONSTITUTION TO REIGN, BUT NOT TO GOVERN. And perhaps a more careful reading of the aforementioned article, referenced at the beginning of the text, can show us how servile the nation is. Servility is not a prerogative of the so-called lower classes; it is also increasingly entrenched in ministerial titles, which seek to put public servants in their pockets; or in the authoritarianism that uses chronological time as a capitalist weapon.

Honor or honour. Reputation, dignity. Does the article published in Crusoé magazine... reflect this sentiment? It allows us to read and reread in order to judge...

We all hope that something real will emerge from the swamp of any illegality disguised as law.

When Tiradentes was immolated and murdered in the center of Rio de Janeiro in 1792, in France; despite all the sorrow, there was a Revolution underway, a Revolution that used words with the flavor of Honor: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity; the French Revolution at this point was heading towards unfolding into a Republic, and this happened in September, five months after the hanging of the courageous Joaquim José da Silva Xavier.

Bravery generates compatibility with society regarding candor, and we have some brave individuals – people who have migrated from the condition of apolitical communicators to the condition of resisters against the obscurantist era, perhaps one of them is the YouTuber Felipe Neto. He is even being sued and attacked by the most diverse segments of a neo-fascist Brazil: the one that wanted to photograph teachers and their content and institute a "School Without Parties"; "punishing teachers and burning the memory of men like Paulo Freire."

Imperious demagoguery is a typical disease of politics; it distorts minds and enslaves the people. Indeed, anything that leads to a lack of sovereignty is absolutism bordering on tyranny.

We do not yet enjoy "supreme power" (sovereignty). We are the children of intense, multinational colonization.

After all, when they invaded the Canudos settlement in 1897, the 25.000 inhabitants, including Antônio Conselheiro, were eliminated by rifles and pistols. Yes, "the rifles" delivered justice. And today, we see a post-factum coronelismo (a system of political and social control by powerful landowners); and certain media outlets try to inject the ultimate falsehood into the veins of a naive population. This is much easier when we have (astonishingly) 11 million illiterate people... who obviously don't even know what the word HONOR means.

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