Levando a propriedade privada ao extremo

Entre todas as manifestações do já tão comentado declínio da esfera pública, eis que se descortina um front totalmente novo:

““Let a publicke benefit expell privat bashfulnesse,” implored John Harington, favourite godson of Elizabeth I and prominent among the crowded pantheon of British toilet heroes. He was decrying the barriers to such sanitary improvements as his flushing water-closet, which he invented in 1596. That same inhibition, often masked by humour, prevents us from seeing in the toilet a powerful barometer of the health of society as a whole. “British public toilets have been in freefall,” says Richard Chisnell, chairman of the British Toilet Association (BTA), and we may recognise in their decline and privatisation a wider sign of the ever diminishing public sphere.“

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Falando nisso, neste fim de semana houve uma grande festa na Esplanada dos Ministérios celebrando os 48 anos de Brasília, atraindo cerca de 1 milhão de pessoas. Mostrando que vida privada e pública podem se misturar, mas nem sempre com consequencias felizes, informo que até agora persistem alguns efeitos menos atraentes do evento, nos estacionamentos dos ministérios…