The MESP and the postmodern rustic ideology of the ultra-right

Abstract

The theme of this essay is the relationship ideology and education, and as a concrete object of support for this relationship, makes a critical review about the Movement Without Party School (MESP). Created in 2004 by the lawyer Miguel Urbano Nagib, the MESP is presented on social networks as "a joint initiative of students and parents concerned with the degree of political-ideological contamination of Brazilian schools, at all levels: from basic to higher education". The movement was created against the background of the political situation in the country, when a center-left party had come to executive power. It develops the idea that although the Tabaréo leadership of the Movimento Escola Sem Partido (Movement School Without Party) emerges as the main disseminator of anti-intellectual irrationalism in the country, on the hegemonic political-ideological plane its presence is equivalent to the actions guided by the cynical moralism of theologians-businessmen, organic journalists and astrologers-gurus to present as absolute truths anti-scientific nonsense, such as creationism and earth moving, in social networks and in traditional media. He considers that the influence and ideological penetration in the society of both are smaller than that of the financial-rentist educational conglomerates like Lemann, Ayrton Senna, Abril, Pythagoras/Kroton/Cogma, among others.