Brazil 2016: Collapse of the Triad of Science, Technology, and Religion 86 comments

4 May 2016 @ 08:19, by Max Sandor "Positivism CANNOT work without maintaining its triadic structure intact - which is impossible without a framework of uncorrupted and transparent intentions." This was the upshot of my interview with Alex Antunes some years ago at the Café Filosófico at Campinas, Brazil. With sadness, I witness the collapse of Science, Technology, and Religion into an unholy Oneness with the nomination of an Evangelical Bishop as a minister for Science and Technology in Brazil. I'm not proud of my predictions, I'm surprised how fast it happened. Let me explain: Positivism is a grand idea, it should work as envisioned, it could work as predicted, if it were only implemented as postulated. In Brazil, and not just in 2016, we see an astonishing parade of corruption. To blame just one political party for that is ridiculous if not outright insane. Corruption extends from multi-billion-dollar projects down to roadstops on highways by Military Police members earning a little extra to their meager pay by extorting monies; funds for the food for the needy ('merenda') are funneled to whoever is in the chain of distribution, the business of trash collection is rigged, and, in general, there seems no instance of money actually arriving where it officially was intended to get the work done that a government is expected to manage. All those brave citizens who try to make things work as promised, are either bypassed, blackmailed, pushed-over, or excluded, and, if they'd dare to insist, simply assassinated, no matter what political party is in control in the region. Positivism is elitism, and this would be wonderful - if it would be the elite of the most able, as postulated. If the elite is that of the most corrupt, ruthless, and criminal, we are where we at, not just in Brazil, but globally. In Brazil, the prior collapse of Science and Technology into one by creating a common ministry was already a warning sign: science must be free to unfold - technology is always bound by financial interests. Merging both into one rings the death bell of independent research, the death of the freedom of expression, and the end of science as science. This collpase has a prior corollary: the merging of Culture and Education. Culture may or may not arise as the end result of applied education, Education is for learning the rules which Culture will break to unfold. Both are at extreme ends of the spectrum. They cannot be possibly merged. Is all of this a result of the confusion of Executive, Legislative, and Judicial powers of the state? Or is the collapse of the latter in Brazil just another outflow of the same problem of Positivism? It doesn't matter who takes control: judges, military, or politicians - if the Triad is broken, there is no going back. And the triad of Positivism was broken since its inception in Brazil, as I made efforts to explain in the interview mentioned above: by omitting the most basic premise of Positivism, it itself has already been destroyed from the beginning. "L'amour", love, is its principle, its starting point, without that love nothing that follows would make sense. Positivism as its best, following the ideas of Joachim of Fiori, who followed the concept of 'love' (agape) of Paul in his letter to the Corinthians. As innocent and irrelevant it may seem, throught the omission of the word 'love' on the flag of Brazil - that shows only 'order and progress', the cycle has already been broking - intentionally so, or through careless thought, does it matter? The result is an inversion of values, as predicted by Joachim di Fiori already: love becomes hate. And this is what we witness these months in Brazil. In the end, the idea of Positivism has proven itself right, in an irony of failure, and not quite as intended.

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