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The Brazilianization of the World - American Affairs Journal
The Brazilianization of the World - American Affairs Journal
The West’s involution finds its mirror image in the original coun­try of the future, the nation doomed forever to remain the country of the future, the one that never reaches its destination: Brazil. The Brazilianization of the world is our encounter with a future denied, and in which this frustration has become constitutive of our social reality. While the closing of historical horizons has often been a leftist, indeed Marxist, concern, the sense that things don’t work as they should is now widely shared across the political spectrum. Welcome to Brazil. Here the only people satisfied with their situation are financial elites and venal politicians. Everyone complains, but everyone shrugs their shoulders. This slow degradation of society is not so much a runaway train, but more of a jittery rollercoaster, occasionally holding out promise of ascent, yet never break­ing free from the tracks. We always come back to where we started, shaken and disoriented, haunted by what might have been...
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The Brazilianization of the World - American Affairs Journal
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Years Of Experience 0 + Welcome to Programmer Hat Apps (for Jira and Shopify) increasing Business Efficiency Through automation + Great Software At Programmer Hat, we work every day, including weekends (don’t be surprised to see a support response on weekends). Writing great software is something we love to do. Apps (Jira, Shopify, Chrome) 0 […]
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The Last Last Mile | No Mercy / No Malice
The Last Last Mile | No Mercy / No Malice
On Black Friday, we wrote about the dangers of the Buy Now Pay Later industry, which takes advantage of our psychological makeup to trick us into spending more than we can afford. From our lips to Uncle Sam’s ears: Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced it is collecting “information on the risks and benefits […]
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The Last Last Mile | No Mercy / No Malice