lucem ac tenebras

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear!

Emily Dickinson

Sobre o caso Afinsa.
O "caso" interessa-me muito pouco, não sou investidor e estes negócios passam-me ao lado... mas, há algo de interessante nos comentários das pessoas.
Não sei se deva rir ou chorar mas pelo menos agora entendo a razão de tanto insucesso à minha volta. Confrontadas com um problema, uma parte substancial dos meuis compatriotas opta por esconder a cabeça na areia e choramingar acerca do país, dos bancos, da Europa, do mundo e tudo o resto… Em vez de se associarem para defenderem direitos, em vez agirem concretamente no mundo que nos rodeia, preferem seguir a moda das conspirações… A verdade é que para um perdedor todos os ganhadores à sua volta devem parecer conspiradores…

A história de sempre:

World’s media duped over “pyramid” find, experts claim

Updated May 8, 2006
Special to World Science

The world’s newspapers and other media outlets have been duped into reporting claims that evidence of a pyramid has turned up in Bosnia, a group of archaeologists says.

Last month, major news organizations worldwide reported that archaeologists had unearthed stone slabs that they described as part of an ancient pyramid buried under a huge hill in Bosnia-Herzegovina. World Science also carried a brief article on the claims.

The find, if real, would represent the first known stepped pyramid in Europe.

But a group of experts say they’re shocked that so many prominent news organizations have fallen for the story.

They say the reports would have people believe, absurdly, that Stone-age humans built a pyramid bigger than any in Egypt.

The critics add that the project’s director is an amateur who compares himself to Indiana Jones and believes human ancestors inhabited a distant star cluster. They also warn that the excavation could damage real archaeological relics at or near the site.

Some of the doubts are to be detailed in an article in the upcoming July/August issue of Archaeology, a magazine of the Boston-based Archaeological Institute of America.

The claim, “which is simply not possible, has been accepted as a major discovery,” the magazine’s executive editor Mark Rose, himself a trained archaeologist, wrote in magazine’s current online edition at www.archaeology.org. “How could this happen?”

The answer, Rose wrote, may be that the tale seemed to fit a storyline that journalists and editors love: “amateur/maverick confounds establishment with great discovery.”