ABRUPTO

7.6.04


O ABRUPTO FEITO PELOS SEUS LEITORES

"Ao ler o seu comentário sobre os Jornalistas e a cobertura da campanha eleitoral recordei-me de um pequeno ensaio de Kierkgaard que li há anos. Só o tenho em tradução inglesa, publicado em Soren Kierkegaard, The Present Age and of the Difference Between a Genius and an Apostle, New York, Harper Torchbooks, 1962. Escrito em 1846, intitula-se The Present Age e segue um pequeno extracto, mais precisamente o final do ensaio:

"The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can be considered an individual), which in association with the passionlessness and reflection of the times creates that abstract phantom, the public, which is the actual leveler. . . . More and more individuals will, because of their indolent bloodlessness,aspire to become nothing, in order to become the public, this abstract whole, which forms in this ridiculous manner: the public comes into existence because all its participants become third parties. This lazy mass, which understands nothing and does nothing, this public gallery seeks some distraction, and soon gives itself over to the idea that everything which someone does, or achieves, has been done to provide the public something to gossip about. . . . The public has a dog for its amusement. That dog is the Media. If there is someone better than the public, someone who distinguishes himself, the public sets the dog on him and all the amusement begins. This biting dog tears up his coat-tails, and takes all sort of vulgar liberties with his leg--until the public bores of it all and calls the dog off. That is how the public levels."


Actualmente já ninguém lê Kierkegaard mas é pena pois ele tem muito para nos ensinar."


(João Costa)

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