There is not worst enemy of knowledge than secure land

Abstract

In this article I criticize the way many thesis on Social Sciences are written in Brazil. They rely too much on bibliography and they often apply mechanically some à la mode ideas to every sort of corpus, even if this latter has some richness the present theory is still unable to explain. Is this maybe due to an emptying of the desire to think? Shouldn't the University instill some spirit of risk in the students, instead of telling them to accomodate themselves? Some suggestions are made in order to change this regrettable statu quo.