{"id":46675,"date":"2018-09-05T09:27:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=46675"},"modified":"2018-09-06T10:15:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T13:15:39","slug":"national-museum-tragedy-reveals-new-offensive-against-public-institutions-of-science-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=46675","title":{"rendered":"National Museum Tragedy Reveals New Offensive Against Public Institutions of Science and Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the course of the week, RioOnWatch will be publishing a series of notes on the tragic fire that destroyed the National Museum<\/a> this past Sunday. The following note was\u00a0posted on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0by Alexandre Fortes.<\/i><\/p>\n

In war, there\u2019s no time to cry.\u00a0<\/span>We are seeing the destruction of the country\u2019s largest and most important scientific archive\u2014and the coup-plotters already want to hold the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro<\/a> (UFRJ) liable for this tragedy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond all that it represents as a heritage site and as a research institution, the National Museum<\/a> was a natural focal point for the March for Science<\/a>, the cradle to which our mistreated and fierce scientific community would always return, a safe haven for all who insist on believing that this country could be sovereign and could use our immense capacity for knowledge production to offer its people a dignified life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The loss is immeasurable and irreparable. Indeed, it exposes our incapacity to make structural investments, even in favorable moments.\u00a0But, above all, it reveals the criminal nature of the \u201causterity\u201d policies that were transformed into a constitutional amendment<\/a>, such that the \u201cadventure\u201d of spending<\/a> on education, healthcare, culture, science, and technology is never again repeated\u2014especially after seeing that these expenditures can stimulate the economy in favor of development and the reduction of inequality<\/a>.
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Will a country that stops vaccinating its children<\/a>, that is seeing increasing infant mortality, that assassinates 60,000 people per year<\/a>, that is going to place a man who<\/a> teaches infants how to shoot<\/a> in the final round [of elections], by chance invest in culture and science?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The respectable people responsible for [running] this country would certainly remain at ease, continuing to visit the Louvre<\/a>, the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, and the British Museum<\/a>, knowing that the masses will no longer have even a taste of [the experience of] seeing a mummy or a dinosaur for eight reais<\/em> in a nice public space in [Rio’s working class]\u00a0North Zone<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the fraudulent political, media, police, and judicial apparatus has already shown all signs that it will appropriate this calamity to launch a new offensive against public institutions of science and technology, as well as against their employees and directors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alexandre Fortes is a professor of labor history and is currently the associate dean of research and graduate studies at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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