Gulliver in the 21st century

Abstract

Taking as a cognitive operator the book “Gulliver’s Travels”, by Jonathan Swif (2005a)t, and based mainly on issues presented in O Método 5: – a humanidade da humanidade: a identidade humana by Edgar Morin (2002), this essay renders some problematic interconnections among communication, comprehension, ethics, science and human condition in the current globalization process. It is questioned whether the mass and the show societies magnify the “primordial evil of the human misunderstanding” (MORIN, 2003, p.363). In spite of phenomena in close interrelation, communication does not guarantee the effectiveness of understanding.