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Western State: the Democratic Rule of Law. static and insusceptible to change. Faced carry most strongly is my collectivity, where
By unraveling the concept of the with these structural transformations of my ancestral wisdom is. If I didn’t listen to
Democratic State of Law, my dear professor the postmodern world, art is an important these memories of our ancestors, I wouldn’t
handed us this greater good, the newly means of understanding multifaceted cases, be here today talking about my resistance”.
acquired democracy, like a newborn, in in which it is necessary to make a broader Bringing these memories also goes
our hands. Terra Brasilis was still in its and more critical analysis so that there are through a history of silencing starting
earliest democratic infancy; this political fairer and more democratic solutions at the with Brazilian colonization and still present
praxis was still inexperienced and subject to political level. today. According to the iBGE, there are
trauma and imbalances, but constitutionally Politics has to permanently shape and currently 305 indigenous ethnic groups
robust, and had been showing its capacity balance disturbances of affectivity – the in Brazil and around 274 languages. As
for development and learning since its result of the dispute over conceptions of the Benites puts it, however, this number was
birth. Understanding this newborn in all world and social existence – in contemporary once higher. “Many have lost their spoken
its complexity was conditio sino qua nonfor societies. Recognition became currency and words, their mother tongue. Today some
overcoming the social traumas and fallacies rejection, a topic of extreme relevance in are being resumed after several processes
imposed by 21 years of dictatorship and the this political game. The improvement of a that prohibited indigenous people from
real and legal opportunity for a dignified, certain group cannot mean the material and speaking their own languages, because they
plural and promising future. We citizens cultural devaluation of the next. Economic were not so important for that system that
had the obligation and the right to get losses, the fear of decline, the feeling of was imposed.” Invisibility goes beyond the
involved in this arduous task of stopping the having no place and no value in society linguistic character; “Today, we [indigenous
countless open wounds that still throbbed are key points on this board. Themes like people] are called invaders, and this is
in our Brazilian society. With the resumption hope, trust, fear, freedom, equality, justice, very revolting. My relatives were literally
of democracy, we also rescued our full security determine the match . massacred because the current government
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citizenship and with it the premise that we all A society cannot live in peace if each says we are invaders. They were murdered,
participated in the same democratic game. group plays only for its individual interests, leaders were murdered, children were
There were, however, some drawbacks. leaving the other participants abandoned murdered.
Considering that we are all equal before the in their anxieties and impotence, as this The curator refers to the crimes that
law, do we, citizens, have the same rights, creates a structural political dilemma. occurred against the Guarani communities,
in fact, if we decline these in equality of The characteristic and promising feature but to that we can add the fact that the
chance and participation? Are there other of the political game is that it never ends murders of indigenous people increased
mechanisms that influence the rules of and the rules can, within the principle of by more than 60% in the first year of the
this democratic game? José Saramago legality, always be adapted to new social pandemic, according to the report of
considered that “true democracy” does not developments, to the different narratives the Indigenist Missionary Council (CIMI).
exist, because governments would respond that are being constructed at the same Between September 3 and 13, 2022, just
to the interests of economic power. The time now. What if the game was not before the International Seminar, six
philosopher Ortega y Gasset, although competitive, but cumulative? We would murders took place among the Guajajara,
conservative, had a dynamic view of the win if we understood that we are one, that Guarani-Kaiowá and Pataxó peoples. In
individual. His famous phrase “man is man we are all. As Vicente Mateus, the legendary April 2022, the President of the District
and his circumstance” reveals that it is not president of Corinthians, would say, “the Council for Yanomami Indigenous Health,
possible to consider the human being as game only ends when it ends”. Júnior Hekurari, denounced that the
an active subject, without simultaneously In a democracy – on the move – we don’t Aracaça village, in Roraima, was completely
taking into account everything that always win, but when we lose, we have in the burned down, after the accusation of rape
surrounds him, starting with his own body next election a new possibility to fight for our and murder of a 12-year-old indigenous
and the historical, political and cultural convictions and win. This is the wonderful girl by gold miners. In 2021, 32 indigenous
context. society in which it belongs. Those and sober game of democracy. This is my leaders and four civil servants working with
who never had the opportunity to participate cue: we have a real chance to determine a communities received death threats.
or those who gave up or were excluded from new narrative for our country through the “Then I ask where is democracy? Where
the game for reasons that were adverse exercise of the right to suffrage. So, Brazilian is the repair?” asks Benites. For the curator,
to their will and potentially have the same citizens, onward! in order to discuss the central theme of
chances and cards in their hands as those And, along the way, a phrase from the the seminar — culture, democracy and
who have always been privileged by their patron of Brazilian education, Paulo Freire, reparation — it is necessary to understand
social class, ethnicity, phenotype, belief. ? hated by the extreme right in power: “No how we deal with the “border” that exists
Faced with these contingencies, do we all one frees anyone, no one frees themselves between the self and the other. “How are
play the same game with the same rules? alone – men free themselves in communion” we going to discuss democracy if there is
I was reminded of Jean Renoir’s cult no listening?” In contrast to this scenario,
and complex film, The Rules of the Game abYss anD seam she brings the Guarani perspective:
. The film is a collective game, with several Paulo Freire’s speech reverberated in “Politics develops from meeting, listening
narratives and clear rules. It is noticed that Sandra Benites’ presentation. The curator, and understanding the other. We have our
the work is related to the idea of Court/ educator and doctoral student in social disagreements, difficulties and challenges,
State, brings a series of human interactions, anthropology at the UfrJ National Museum but we don’t try to erase each other because
in addition to brushing questions about brought to the table Abyss and Seam of this difference”.
democracy and the political game in the more than her individual experience. As Benites stitches, then, this lack of listening
prelude to the Second World War. Just like a Guarani Nhandewa indigenous woman, to the art scene, based on her personal
the human being, society is not something she shared her collective journey: “What I experience. On May 17, after Masp decreed
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