Brazil Is a Prisoner of Now with No Consideration for Tomorrow

I've found a quite interesting article on the web site brazzil.com, something that reflects the current situation in Brazil regarding the lack of planning, quick-witted solutions, aka "jeitinho Brasileiro", and the disdain by society and authorities in front of the atrocities amongst us frequently.

In the end, I commented on it and I come to share everything with you:

First, the article is this ONE.

My comment was the one below:

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First of all, I'm impressed by the quality of the writing, as well as the effectiveness in transmitting the idea so successfully.

I live in Sao Paulo, and the situation seems to cause more and more insecurity among us. Apart from the ongoing urban violence brought about by thugs, when it comes to rain, every year is just the repetition of the same old story, people overwhelmed by flooding, people losing their houses and lives, etc.

Here is Sao Paulo, a simple drizzle is enough to paralyze the traffic. If it rains, it is even worse. As a result, commuters are unable to go back and forth, crowded buses everywhere, everybody faces the hassle to get on subways and trains, it is hell on Earth.

Having lived my entire life here, I see that time spent in traffic has increased, as well as the number of commuters everywhere. Such increase was verified in the number of cars in the streets too, what possibly explains the higher times stuck in the streets. When rain drops threat us, get ready to avoid certain known public areas (lucky the ones aware of such areas) and undergo high stress outside.

Now they are trying to remedy the problem, at least partially, by constructing lots of new subway lines. I recognize it is a must given the insurmountable standstill in traffic nowadays, but in turn, I do believe that such a move boils down to the forthcoming World Cup here in Brazil... Also Bullet Trains between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro is in mind.

The Brazilian jeitinho is massively recognized and used in a day-to-day basis in society, and some people boast about it when they manage to find quick-witted solutions for immediate problems, acting exactly as aforementioned, never taking pro-active approaches.

In the end, everybody wallows in delight in the yearly Carnivals, the soccer matches across the years, they are glad to watch the always repeated stories in soap-operas, they find terrific uneducated and indecent dances on TV, performed by women exposing their butts, everything that gradually turns out to be second nature and widely accepted for the new generations to come.

It's the end...