Article – Olavo de Carvalho

The New Role Of The Media

on February 4, 2021April 6, 2021 By Olavo de Carvalho 1 Comment

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0by0zYFBJsTUW3XcTQNce0?si=HISGL5zKRsSAEZho77RS3g The New Role Of The Media, by Olavo de Carvalho As the media's authority grows and its reliability decreases, its news function gives way to the spread of clichés and slogans in the service of the New World Order If the reader is one of those people who, before approving or disapproving, before hating [...]

A Memorable Failure

on January 14, 2021April 2, 2021 By Olavo de Carvalho 3 Comments

A Memorable Failure, by Olavo de Carvalho https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ImCGKWLD1fDhS7XwBpOin?si=4gBWzLnQQmCk3Ii26psc5Q The Durban Conference was a farce and a trap. Its failure was the most logical, just, and healthy thing that has happened in international politics in recent years. The conference never honestly proposed to fight racism and discrimination, aiming instead to exalt those communities that have the [...]

Christmas meditation

on December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 By Olavo de Carvalho

If there is one obvious thing in the world, it is that Christianity is, in its origin, not a doctrine, but a narrative of miraculous facts. Jesus Himself makes this very clear in Matthew 11:1–6, when asked who He is: “Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind [...]

“St. Thomas Aquinas defined friendship in the following terms: idem velle, et idem nolle, that is, your friend is the person who wants the same things you want and rejects the same things you reject. If you cannot find a group that identifies with your objectives and values, you will obviously be isolated among other people, who will be either strange or hostile to you. (…) Aristotle considered friendship to be the basis of a polity. Friendship is not a “political” phenomenon in the sense that we currently understand politics; but nevertheless, if there were no human tendency to form groups united through friendship, through the commonality of objectives and values, no political society would ever be possible. Friendship is also one of the pillars upon which our personality is built. If you do not find adequate friends, who share values with you, you will end up associating yourself with other groups, which will offer you support and friendship in exchange for your own corruption, your relinquishing your own values and making useless and abject sacrifices before the altar of a false friendship.” — Olavo de Carvalho, Philosophy Online Course, Lecture 1.