13 março 2017

Dia 13

Dia 13 é dia de milagres em Portugal: reapareceram hoje os 21 milhões tirados do chapéu há dois meses.

À esquerda do ministro, confirmando com gestos de cabeça que os "procedimentos estão muito adiantados", está o secretário de Estado que na semana passada assinou o Despacho que manda regressar tudo à estaca zero.

PS. O Jornal Oficial reporta agora a segunda versão oficial (a primeira era mentira). Já houve um desenvolvimento. A repórter anterior foi substituída por uma nova. Um progresso

3 comentários:

Euro2cent disse...

Já andamos há três séculos nisto, como se vê pela melancólica observação de um dos arquitectos maiores das repúblicas de publicitários:

"""
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables.

General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on.

I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors.

He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.
"""

(Quem estiver com pressa pode levar a última frase para rilhar depois: "Quem não lê nada ainda sabe dos grandes factos, e os detalhes são falsos".)

José Lopes da Silva disse...

Devemos sempre confiar na nossa experiência pessoal e na observação cuidadosa do que vemos à nossa volta, e nos nossos próprios exemplos de vida, com sucessos e fracassos, vitórias e erros.

José Lopes da Silva disse...

Também o sr. Farage já veio falar em verdade, que não está a ser dita aos escoceses.