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In recent days, as we are nearing the shortest day of the year, and the night falls quicker and quicker, I couldn't help but wonder about how strong are our lives tied to daylight. Every year when the day gets shorter, we get lazier, less productive, less active in general. I observe this on the example of myself, but not only. As we get to this time, when it's 4pm and it's already dark outside everybody thinks of the same - when at this time in summer we were just heading off the beach, or going out to spend some time on fresh air. It doesn't matter that we no longer have to rely on daylight, as we have artificial light, because the need for sunlight is so deeply embedded in our nature as humans we cannot bypass it.

The election of Bolsonaro marks next milestone in sad chapter of world’s swing to the political right. This trend worldwide has very different reasons, but I do believe that one of the key ones might be mass-media induced misinformation and spread of fake news, which fuel the rising tensions between native inhabitants of countries and the immigrants to those countries - no matter of what background. We’ve seen this before Trump’s election, before Polish general election 3 years ago, before Brexit referendum, before French presidential election (luckily lost by Marine Le Pen’s National Front), and I wouldn’t be surprised if it also was a case before Brasilian elections. These misleading campaigns, teamed up with micro targeting on social networks resulted in many people being convinced slyly that the central-liberal/cosmopolitan views can only lead to chaos, ,devastation and despair. Now those people often regret voting for alt-right options as it can be seen during demonstrat...