Theory of closed windows and coculpability: The fable of Aesop in real life

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that the risk society in which we live, an environment favorable to division and social stratification, forms extreme social inequalities between those excluded from our capitalist society and those included without any social and economic disadvantages. From a re-reading of Aesop’s fables, one theorizes about the origin of the wave of crimes that permeates Brazil today, which clearly result from the inertia of those men of good who, located in better starting positions, omit themselves in the creation of inclusive programs in favor of weakened and vulnerable individuals that are incapable of disputing equally in our society’s neocapitalist race.  In the end, we suggest a framework of institutional objectives and actions, because collective consciousness is important in increasing state efficiency as a means for granting the right to full citizenship.