Brazil is one of the countries where books are read the least. People are served by newspapers with a poor editorial line and subservient to the economic system, so people almost always receive distorted information. In addition, they are influenced daily by the poison of Big Media on television. They ingest garbage on a daily basis that prevents them from expanding their imagination.

These people don't really know what thinking is - they think they think, but they have no idea what the essence of Thought is. They are easy victims of the religious lure that promises Paradise after death. They never doubt what has been established - Jesus is Lord and that's that, they don't question it and they don't want to be questioned. This is assumed to be the Eternal and Immutable Truth and the brain is shut down; it's as if the person puts a wall around their head and doesn't allow new ideas to penetrate this well-established fortress. It's bad luck for them that they continue to lead these insignificant lives - the problem is that they want to convert the whole world and think they are the bearers of the Truth, so they fill us up wanting us to be and live the way they want us to. They try to push Christ down our throats in every way and won't stop until you "confess with your mouth" that you accept what has literally been imposed on you! This culture is very common in Latin countries, of taking charge of other people's lives, of meddling in the lives of others. I call civilized a country where people have the freedom to be whatever they want, without anyone telling them what they can't be, in this patriarchal attitude of the Church. People have to educate themselves, evolve, get out of this evangelization morass.

The way out is education, but investment is still scarce. Despite the few reputable Brazilian universities (UFRJ, USP, PUC, UNICAMP, etc.), the vast majority of universities are private, with exorbitant tuition fees, and generally the quality of teaching is shoddy. These colleges are more like companies than educational institutions. There's even one - namely the Estácio de Sá University - that gives away two zero km cars to the first two places in the entrance exam! No one should go to university stimulated by a competition in an entrance exam. Until recently it was a luxury to graduate from university, or even from a specialization course, but nowadays it's becoming normal; too bad that most graduates actually finish the course "clueless", without the slightest professional preparation.

Brazilian youth is one of the most passive in the world when it comes to the facts of life. This shouldn't be the case, but unfortunately it is. The funny thing is that Brazilians, when they want to keep everything as it is, find the strength to mobilize, calling broadcasters, sending emails complaining; but when they should mobilize against something that harms them, as the French do, the majority don't give a damn. "Political activism? How boring!" Here, most people just want to worry about the barbecue and the soap opera... You go to small towns and there's an evangelical church on every block. There are fewer schools.

Afghanistan has the Muslim Taliban; Brazil has the evangelical Taliban... I don't see any difference between these fundamentalists who think they are the sole owners of the truth and anyone who doesn't agree with them deserves to cease to exist. Bastards! Bastards! Bastards!