“Social networks take their memory: corruption? The last 50 years were the best ever in Portugal”

A lot could improve, or it’s getting worse. “But calm down: we are not worse than we were 50 years ago.” Nuno Artur Silva leaves alerts.

The word “perception”, which should be a candidate for the word of the year 2025, also enters here: many Portuguese have the perception that Portugal is full of corrupt.

And here, the social networks “pull for the worst of people” because they underline the “resentment” and “make us losing memory”.

“There are many people to embark on this idea that it’s all corrupteverything is horrible and we have to end this system, ”says Nuno Artur Silva.

The writer, who was to talk about the release of his book MY ERRORSspoke of the error that is generalizing in the country: “It is necessary for someone to say: Epá, calm down, The last 50 years in Portugal is not just good – it is having the best ever”.

And explained his perspective: “Never had so much time of peace, democracy, and never so many people were happy As it was now, or never so many people lived so well. You must not lose the focus of this. ”

“Of course a lot could improve, of course there is a lot of getting worse. But calm down: we’re not worse than we were 50 years ago, or before that. guerra (involving Portugal) and now there is no ”.

The former RTP administrator recalled that “all rates reveal that Never have so many people lived so well“, However, admitting that” there are many current problems. “

The problem of social networks “Ideas pass” For people who, in fact, “are living worse, angry ”.

But “it is important to have something called memory. And while traditional communication agencies have archive, memory and go to comparative things – that’s how it is, now it’s like that, it’s more complex… – Social networks have something that is a basic simplism, they have no memory. ”

“For a person who is angry, he is angry. Point. And if a type appears to say ‘you have all the reason, this is corruption everywhere’, the person say ‘this kind is right,'” said Nuno.

Nuno Artur Silva points out that on social networks there is a “Primarismo which stimulates the immediate reaction. And people don’t want to hear a long time, because they don’t have time, They don’t want to hear the contradictory. They basically want someone who tells them that they are right“He lamented.