Not all flowers, not all thorns

Faced with the deterioration of life that we feel objectively and subjectively in our daily lives, it could perhaps be said that the image that portrays our time is that of fog, because it is not clear what will happen to us or where we will go. As a result, in our time we are neither one thing nor the other and the ways in which we are used to dealing with the challenges of reality no longer work. In other words, we're at the point where all the ways we've learned to survive in the world, such as the political-institutional system, the ways of organizing our own lives, our relationships with other people, the party system, social collectives and movements, and the model of representation, no longer fully meet the existential needs of our time. And the new forms, which would replace the old ones, are still in their infancy. In this book, João Miranda discusses the various effects of the "fog era" on the Brazilian political, economic, social and cultural scene, making it clear that, given the lack of a defined horizon, we still don't have a long-term vision and our actions consist almost exclusively of reacting to the most recent crises.