Some days ago, I saw a video shared by a friend on facebook that showed a group of undergraduate school (those Brazilian private school of very looooow quality) students (some girls and one boy) making a presentation about Weber. But it wasn't a formal presentation, such as a traditional seminar. They were making a new version of a famous song in which they changed the lyrics for stupid things like "Weber, German Sociologist", using weird clothes and dancing. It was kinda disaster, what we name in Portuguese "vergonha alheia", something like feeling ashamed by the other.
I was about to comment on that video when I suddenly remembered my semminar about Anarchy and Kropotkin on the far 2004, General Theory of State was the name of the course... It was me and my 3 (do you want to be named?) best friends (by the way, we can't remember how and when we did became BFF, but I think all of us are sure that this seminar was remarkable for the begining of our friendship) and we had been feeling bored with the previous presentation on that semester. Always long 45 minutes talking about Plato, Socrates, Kant, etc (I could barely guess that 7 years later some 20 minutes at a course of grad school would be much worse). We wanted something different. And here we go!
We planned a short piece to explain Kropotkin ideas. I don't remember which character I played, but one of us was the punk, the other the professor (and I remember we borrowed the apron of N's mother, who was dentist) and we also had narrators. Actually, I just confirmed with N2 and she also said she kind of deleted this of her mind and can't remember very well how was the screenplay, but it was "vergonha alheia" for sure. It was the punk trying to affirm Kroptkin ideas and the repressive professor; there were shouts and everything else. Gosh! Embarassing. But I think at least we didn't just sang around "Kropotkin Anarchist".
In any case, two antithetical questions remain in mind. Why, why, why on earth we thought it would be a good idea to make something completely different from the others? But at the same time, if the content was not that bad, why we are still so conservative at Law School? Maybe if we were at journalism school, that wouldn't be a sooo bad idea. And I just thank at that time cell phone with camera didn't exist in classrooms and we didn't have youtube.
