Atenção!

Às vezes é preciso ter atenção ao funcionamento da máquina, da ilusão que ela nos impõe, da nossa própria modorra e resignação, dum certo medo que nos deixa paralisados perante a sua dimensão colossal! E por isso gostaria de partilhar um pequeno texto com mais de 40 anos mas que acho que ainda reflecte a urgência de agir, mudar! Pelo menos na questão da Universidade! Um assunto que deixa muita gente angustiada. Este pequeno texto foi dito por um revolucionário chamado Mário Savio.

«We have an autocracy which runs this university. It's managed. We asked the following: if President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the Regents in his telephone conversation, why didn't he make some public statement to that effect? And the answer we received -- from a well-meaning liberal -- was the following: He said, "Would you ever imagine the manager of a firm making a statement publicly in opposition to his board of directors?" That's the answer! Now, I ask you to consider: if this is a firm, and if the Board of Regents are the board of directors, and if President Kerr in fact is the manager, then I'll tell you something: the faculty are a bunch of employees, and we're the raw material! But we're a bunch of raw material[s] that don't mean to have any process upon us, don't mean to be made into any product, don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all! ...»

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bi0z3N7tXc