mangabeira, chavez, maluf… quem entende?

Cada dia eu tenho mais dificuldade de entender o que um dia foi chamado de geopolítica. As coisas ficaram tão complexas que o Lula chamou o Mangabeira Unger para ajudar a entender ou a bagunçar mais. Alias o Mangabeira foi o destaque do IGF, seu pronunciamento foi sensacional (tá aí abaixo no read more). Mas o que me faz escrever é o Maluf. O Maluf, geopolitólogo de mão cheia, diz que o Chavez é um cafajeste, mas a Venezuela (que terá provavelmente re-eleição ilimitada) deve entrar no Mercosul. Amigo leitor, o Maluf é relator de uma comissão de relações internacionais. Acho que nem árabe o Maluf (um Salim) fala… Cada coisa…

ROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGER: - in many aspects, (Audio problem) it is a means
to overthrow all dictatorships to free from the power of money and cultural
authority. For this revolutionary potential to be fully used, an institutional
design needs to be developed for Internet governance according to two
principles. First principle is that of antihegemony. The Internet governance
must not reflect the overpowering preponderance of any specific national state.
ICANN had an essential historic value in the development of the Internet.
However, we are past the time for it to pass on its power to a more including
organization, without confrontation and without any problem. The second
principle is the principle of limitation on the influence of the state and the
influence of money. The mere transfer of ICANN’s power to universal association
of states would not be accepted by those who control the Internet today, and
should not be accepted by mankind. The governance alternative must also give
power to the world civil society. And for that, we need an institutional
design which may replace in the property system the logics of — the power of
the owner with the logic of the agreement between users. And that should add
traces of representative democracy and of participative democracy and should
apply the result of this combination to sectors where these principles were
never applied before. You will say that the premise for this initiative is
still lacking. The world of civilian society is still not organized. But it
is beginning to organize itself, and the development of the Internet does not
have the organization of the world civil society as a precondition. On the
contrary, it is a provocation for it to organize itself. So you here who are
involved with the Internet, those of you who study and discuss the Internet,
you are the avant-garde of this world movement. And it is based on the
associations represented here that this participative movement to change
governments has to start. It has to start with you. So the realists will
ridicule this initiative. But they are the ones to sink in an anti-pragmatic
pragmatism, forgetting that mundane people do not change the world. Ladies and
gentlemen, courage, courage to attain what is necessary via what is improbable;
courage to turn the Internet into a practical, universal tool to work for
freeing imagination. Thank you. [ Applause ]