Aldo Rebelo
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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Thought received its best contributions from those who dedicated themselves to abstract thought.
Greek philosophers have lasted so long because they thought well beyond their everyday needs.
well beyond their immediate concerns.
Plato, Aristotle, even Arab philosophers, Jewish philosophers, the Romans, they were philosophers of abstraction, in other words, of general ideas.
From general ideas they attempted to explain everyday phenomena.
But modern politics
has lost that ability.
It's all about the immediate power struggle.
The abstract plane has all but been dismissed.
It's all about conquering immediate power, remaining in power, working to maintain power.
And anything that's not part of that is either dismissed or neglected, belittled.
And it's not exclusive to Brazil.
The same thing happens in the US, with a few exceptions.
But the democratic world lives off of managing its deficiencies, its crises,
the contestation and protests of politics, the loss of quality among public people.
It's lost its ability to select in the US, which is the role model of democracy that the world looks up to with more interest.
There used to be elections, but there used to also be selection parties.
used to select their candidates.
There was a time, the man who conquered the North Pole, Lindenberg, he used to be a celebrity, a well-known person.
Had he been a candidate, he would have had 80-90% of votes.
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