Today it's about me.
When I'm felling down, one of the things I usually do is read 'The Little Prince' of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The book was given to me, when I was six(I think) and since then it has been read more than a thousand times, there was a certain period in my (short) life when I read it almost every week, if you'd ask me why, I wouldn't be able to give you an answer I just needed to read it.
In these days I haven't read it so often, but it still lies in my bedside table, close to me, just in case...
Probably I need to read it again. I'm kind of lousing touch with reality. I'm on summer holidays for some time now (about three weeks) and I spend all of my time at home, on the internet. I rarely go to the beach, although the good weather that's on Portugal these days, my room is a mess, and I have lots of plans of things to do during the summer, but I don't start none ( I think these Blog was the first).
I really have to organize my room, whit that organized, it'll be easier to organize ideas.
And I need to spend less time in front of the computer...
Thursday 31 July 2003
Wednesday 30 July 2003
Fires and more fires.
Another ridge of mountains is burning in Portugal, aerial support from Spain has arrived, but the fire is uncontrollable. The Environment minister went to the public television, to say that the prevention has to be more effective and that the fireman have to be supported more properly (in Portugal almost all the fireman are volunteer, and don't have special training), but we all know that is just a political intention and that when these fire is extinguish, those words will be forgotten and the country will stay the same 'bananas country', it's sad but true. All the governments have made promises of cleaning the forest, during election campaign, but none have accomplished those promises. In Portugal, when the summer is over and the fires vanish, the people forget about all of these until the next year, until the next fire.
Nobody complains, nobody gives a dam, even if Portugal is losing one of its best natural resources, the forest. The police never catches the people that start the fires, and the wood is sold at very low cost. The area that is consumed by the fire takes decades to recover, and again nobody gives a dam.
The government says the plan against fires has to be well thought, because there's very little money, but all of the ministers use expensive cars, fly around the country on helicopters ... there's no explanation possible.
Portugal is (as always) the example of what shouldn't be done.
Unfortunately
Another ridge of mountains is burning in Portugal, aerial support from Spain has arrived, but the fire is uncontrollable. The Environment minister went to the public television, to say that the prevention has to be more effective and that the fireman have to be supported more properly (in Portugal almost all the fireman are volunteer, and don't have special training), but we all know that is just a political intention and that when these fire is extinguish, those words will be forgotten and the country will stay the same 'bananas country', it's sad but true. All the governments have made promises of cleaning the forest, during election campaign, but none have accomplished those promises. In Portugal, when the summer is over and the fires vanish, the people forget about all of these until the next year, until the next fire.
Nobody complains, nobody gives a dam, even if Portugal is losing one of its best natural resources, the forest. The police never catches the people that start the fires, and the wood is sold at very low cost. The area that is consumed by the fire takes decades to recover, and again nobody gives a dam.
The government says the plan against fires has to be well thought, because there's very little money, but all of the ministers use expensive cars, fly around the country on helicopters ... there's no explanation possible.
Portugal is (as always) the example of what shouldn't be done.
Unfortunately
Tuesday 29 July 2003
My Blog.
Today I was seeing an Italian film called "CONCORRENZA SLEALE" it's about the Mussolini’s Italy, and describes how Jew people started to lose rights, started to being pointed in the street just because of the religion, whore forbidden to go to school, to teach, to practice medicine, and many other things. And these same film showed the different way of thinking of the rest, while some of them didn't understand why someone that has a different religion can't go to the same hospital, and receive the same assistance (and wore against it), others (mainly the ones that benefit with the situation) agreed with the measures of the Italian government. That film sounded to me, very current, because the same problems shown in the film are coming back in the present. In Portugal (my country) the people are becoming more and more racists, for example if some one is robbed by a black person, he immediately say he was robbed by a black, if he is robbed by a gipsy, he will say he was robbed by a gipsy, but if he is robbed by a white person, then he will say he was robbed by a thief, these may sound like a little thing but the truth is that these kind of behaviour is starting to discriminate all the people that have a different race (for example, if I’m in a room of 20 people and something is missing, if in that same room is a black person, then the first suspect will be him), and if these kind of behaviour doesn't change quickly then in a very near future we will have many people agreeing with measures that separate different races in different schools, different hospitals and eventually in different cities or even countries ( we have a very good example in the palestein/israel conflict) I know people that wouldn't be chocked if black people wore forbidden of going to school. (The History is starting to repeat) The other problem that the film focused was the problem of the lack of humanity in some people, these is, if something benefits a person, then it should be done (in the opinion of that person) even if it means that it harms somebody else (and even if that harm means death, although not directly, so the one that benefits can't be held responsible), these for me it's the total perversion of the society, and of the individual. I my self learned to pass thought people in need, for example in the underground, and don't even bother to look. It's probably a self-defence mechanism, but the truth is that I don't look. :( but at least I bother to think about it, and I’m willing to make changes in my behaviour, at least I'm unable to take advantage of someone (or I think I am), and in the end maybe I'm as guilty as the ones that point out people by there race, by there economical status, because in a way we all point.
Today I was seeing an Italian film called "CONCORRENZA SLEALE" it's about the Mussolini’s Italy, and describes how Jew people started to lose rights, started to being pointed in the street just because of the religion, whore forbidden to go to school, to teach, to practice medicine, and many other things. And these same film showed the different way of thinking of the rest, while some of them didn't understand why someone that has a different religion can't go to the same hospital, and receive the same assistance (and wore against it), others (mainly the ones that benefit with the situation) agreed with the measures of the Italian government. That film sounded to me, very current, because the same problems shown in the film are coming back in the present. In Portugal (my country) the people are becoming more and more racists, for example if some one is robbed by a black person, he immediately say he was robbed by a black, if he is robbed by a gipsy, he will say he was robbed by a gipsy, but if he is robbed by a white person, then he will say he was robbed by a thief, these may sound like a little thing but the truth is that these kind of behaviour is starting to discriminate all the people that have a different race (for example, if I’m in a room of 20 people and something is missing, if in that same room is a black person, then the first suspect will be him), and if these kind of behaviour doesn't change quickly then in a very near future we will have many people agreeing with measures that separate different races in different schools, different hospitals and eventually in different cities or even countries ( we have a very good example in the palestein/israel conflict) I know people that wouldn't be chocked if black people wore forbidden of going to school. (The History is starting to repeat) The other problem that the film focused was the problem of the lack of humanity in some people, these is, if something benefits a person, then it should be done (in the opinion of that person) even if it means that it harms somebody else (and even if that harm means death, although not directly, so the one that benefits can't be held responsible), these for me it's the total perversion of the society, and of the individual. I my self learned to pass thought people in need, for example in the underground, and don't even bother to look. It's probably a self-defence mechanism, but the truth is that I don't look. :( but at least I bother to think about it, and I’m willing to make changes in my behaviour, at least I'm unable to take advantage of someone (or I think I am), and in the end maybe I'm as guilty as the ones that point out people by there race, by there economical status, because in a way we all point.
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