LORD: DO NOT LET ME FALL INTO THE TEMPTATION OF CITING AUTHORS WITHOUT READING YOUR WORKS!

          I have read many discussions on facebook, some with a lot of bibliographic support, others not so much, in fact not based on critical sense.

          We start with the stupid mistakes of Portuguese (I'm not talking about jovial abbreviations, but of the same mistakes!), Where people do not even stop to click on the text corrector, sometimes I see people disqualifying the interlocutor exactly for some linguistic aberration.

          Common is also the disrespect of some netizens in relation to ideas contrary to yours and using words, at least, inelegant, not to say that some are even slang!

          I believe that the internet should be a space for plurality of ideas and respect for differences of all kinds. I keep Voltaire's centennial sentence about Rousseau's ideas:

          "I may not agree to a word of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

          Given this, we go to a more delicate field: that of speaking / writing about an author without reading it, only superficially addressing what he has heard, or reading a summary of this author, rather than reading his work, or at least The work cited.

          Several people quoted Gramsci to say that he influenced and influenced Brazilian culture, education, and politics through his category of hegemony, so I asked them, in what Gramsci's work had they based themselves so I could read about it. The silence was the resounding response! At most, after stuttering enough they cite that they saw on the internet, or those a little more based quote the former astrologer and philosopher Olavo de Carvalho.

          So here is a humble tip for those who really want to have a serious, content-based debate, running away from common sense and postulating the critical sense, whether it's the left, center, right, conservative, reformist or revolutionary debater: no Fall into the temptation to quote authors without reading their works!