"That's the part I have to start lying about."

"I would like, in this book, to show that the crisis of the world around us, and also the "crises of religion" ... are enormous windows of opportunity opened to us by God.

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I regard the awakening of just such an attitude to life - not avoiding crises but taking up one's cross - to be one of Christianity's most valuable contributions. Christianity is not primarily "a system of dogmatic texts," but instead a method, a way, a route." (1)

Precisamente a opção contrária ao modelo português-tipo. No entanto, cada vez mais não estamos sozinhos.

"If I'm doing something that's growth-based and if I suffused all of these institutions with certain growth obligations The portion of that institution like its pension fund that had to grow at a level that it cannot grow at becomes psychopathic. Right?

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So we started to get into a place where we couldn't sustain the science, the science couldn't sustain the technology, the technology couldn't sustain the markets, and everything had been built with an obligation. So the whole point of this theory of egos or embedded growth obligations is how do we have a theory why all? Institutions would sort of get into trouble at once and it's the common thing is a growth that can't be met.

Right, so that's that's why everything went funny, now.

That's not to say that we're not analytic. If we didn't want to lie to keep this game going. We could fix a lot of things. So things that do get fixed are things like airplane checklists to make sure that we don't take off with something broken. The checklist is also operative in a hospital, so you don't amputate the wrong leg. So the explosion in iatrogenics, which is the harm done by physicians to their own patients, and the epidemic of crashes, that ended, both in part result from a common understanding and management that a checklist is a life-saving thing.

We could do that with integrity to the growth based parts the pension I could say to you actually, you know these commitments we made to get to your pension can't be met. Here's what's realistic and here's what's safe. What do you guys how do you guys feel about 2% or you know, or 1.5% growth? 

You say well, can I retire? Not really very well? You might paid my whole life into helping other people. Yeah, you're the loser in a pyramid scheme.

How do you feel? Well, you don't feel good. That's the part I have to start lying about."(2)

De ontem:

"Future generations of retirees will be impoverished, as will the country as a whole."(3) 

Conseguem ouvir o governo de turno dizer com uma lata só semelhante à cobardia dos media que a ouvem:

- A Segurança Social foi salva! 

1 - Trechos retirados de "Night of the Confessor: Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty" de Tomas Halík.

2 - Trechos retirados de "Eric Weinstein - All Hell Is About to Break Loose"

3 - Trecho retirado de "The government needs to be far bolder on pension reform"