We'll be eternally free and eternally young. It is the world's soccer champion and a major exporter of high quality software. Then again, Brazil is also one of the globe's most unfair distributors of wealth, and its rates of child mortality and illiteracy are astronomical. In spite of technological developments, the average human being remains essentially a puppet in the hands of abstract powers. The New World Order has not eliminated greed or self-interest.
Technology grows, and social development shrinks.
This observation is pertinent to many countries in the world, but it reverberates loudly in Brazil, where the gap between technological and social development is unacceptably large. In the poorest parts of the Northeast and North regions, seasonal factors take the rates as high as 200 per 1,000. One out of 5 children does not stand a chance against highly manageable menaces such as diarrhea and respiratory diseases. In our age of information and technological advancement, these facts and figures are unacceptable. Many people perceive Brazil as a kind of sexy and laid back third world corner, while in fact, we also have the first, the fifth and the tenth worlds here.