tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post4536707388162269355..comments2024-03-28T00:47:44.556+08:00Comments on The Reading Life: Highway to Hell by Matt Roper 2013 (nonfiction)Mel uhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-53579367384392023872022-10-01T23:55:22.036+08:002022-10-01T23:55:22.036+08:00Knowing Brazil and Brazilians, I disagree with the...Knowing Brazil and Brazilians, I disagree with the author's diagnosis, if indeed the diagnosis is his . . . the problem is that notons of "insidious consumerism", or even of "the destruction of local culture by 'international commerce' ", are beside the point. The real problem is one of willful negligence and the matter of poverty.<br /><br />Cui bono ?<br /><br />Brazil is a country of priviledged "oligarchs" and failed leadership. Popular culture, that is to say, a culture of social responsibility in Brazil remains stuck in fanatical superstition that is encouraged by the oligarchs (Upper Middle class and Middle Class Brazilian) for whom the status quo works. <br /><br />A public program for education and a generalized culture of productivity (and properly distributed rewards) would do a lot to fix the social situation I have no doubt this book aptly describes.http://www.wordcraft.PROhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10303625724400281685noreply@blogger.com