ABSTRACT

This article discusses academic productivism to the detriment of the socially engaged performance of university professors and their reflexes in the training of subjects. Timely theme at a time of serious political and institutional crisis that threatens social security and the right to health in Brazil. This situation invites the social actors of education to reflect on the role of the University for Citizenship and the social sense of what it produces.

KEYWORDS
Capitalism; Universities; Health human resource training

Preamble on an instigating scenery

An institutional crisis without dimensions in the recent history of democracy in Brazil, as of the parliamentary coup of 2016, tends to compromise the right to health and the quality of life of the population. In this scenario, social justice suffers against the brazilian juridical tradition, with regard to secondarily popular interest (ASSIS ., 2016ASSIS, D. et al. (Org.). A resistência ao golpe de 2016. Bauru: Canal 6, 2016.). The actors who operate the logic of the minimal State are organized in all strata of society and find refuge for their ideological (neoliberal) options also in the university. It is an acute signal to emphasize that the less favored classes, that access the university, need an emancipatory formation, to the detriment of the traditional model that characterizes teaching, research and extension under the logic of the market. The expansion of higher education in Brazil, between 2003 and 2013, makes this debate unavoidable.

According to the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), the offer of undergraduate courses increased from 16.505 options to 32.049 in this period, representing a growth of 94%, in both the public and private sectors, notably, in the Northeast region (BRASIL, 2015BRASIL. Ministério da Educação. A democratização e expansão da educação superior no país 2003 - 2014. Brasília, DF, 2015. Disponível em: <http://portal.mec.gov.br/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=16762-balanco-social-sesu-2003-2014&Itemid=30192>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
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The model of teaching and scientific production, under the aegis of the market, helps maintain, with regard to health as a social achievement, a skeleton without meat, a structure divergent from the proposed emancipatory model. Never education and health have required so much intertwining so that the right to citizenship will succeed in Brazil (RIBEIRO, 2007RIBEIRO, D. Encontros. Rio de Janeiro: Beco do Azougue, 2007.; SANTOS; SILVA, 2013SANTOS, L. R. C. S.; SILVA, T. P. C. A utopia da reforma sanitária brasileira em um discurso no Congresso da ABRASCO 2009. Saúde em Debate, Rio de Janeiro, v. 37, n. 97, p. 210-218, abr./jun. 2013. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-11042013000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso>. Acesso em: 28 jan. 2017.
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At this point, the MEC proposes to reflect on the humanizing role of the Federal Institutions of Higher Education (Ifes), to the detriment of what the market undertakes.

How should the university 'act' against the loss of fundamental rights of society (social, labour and social security)? Obtaining answers implies understanding the contemporary morphology of work, whose matrix is situated in the economic model, marked by rhythm and meaning, inside and outside the academic universe.

Morphology of work: from Lafargue to the productivist academy of the third millennium

In the text of Paul Lafargue, written in prison, in 1883, one can observe the marks of the current intellectual production in keeping with the nuances of dogmatic thinking about work. Today, production for production, alienating in terms of global sustainability and geopolitics, would retain some trace of what was observed in the XIX century in France?

The actors do not perceive the 'nature' in its interlines, nor the social phenomena that can circumscribe it. This is a productivist attitude; technical, functional, devoid of a social reason. It always occurs that the intellectual worker 'loves work for work', despite the dehumanizing ideological content embedded in the production of knowledge under such perspective.

Paul Lafargue, in his time, in a critical posture, led through the galleries of France a turtle by the collar. He let himself be carried by the cadence of the animal, having the view of the surroundings. According to this author, it was good to take such animals to walk as a protest against the current organization and work process (LAFARGUE, 2003LAFARGUE, P. O direito à preguiça. São Paulo: Claridade, 2003.). What has changed in the way of producing? Time-movement control (taylorism) was added to polyvalence (toyotism) and the structural unemployment was increased.

Currently, the new morphology of work in the public sector, manual or intellectual, is characterized by the flexibility of rights, availability and constant adaptability, a situation reinforced by the rarity of public tenders. Academic productivist pragmatism converts the teaching/learning and research/publication processes into a formal matrix of self-reproduction, without proper sociopolitical and meaningless contextualization (ZIZEK, 2015______. Problemas no paraíso: do fim da história ao fim do capitalismo. 1. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2015.). There is a tragedy in health training, as Jaime Breilh (2015, P. 537)______. Entrevista: Jaime Breilh. Trabalho, Educação e Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, v. 13, n. 2, p. 533-540, ago. 2015. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-77462015000200533>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
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Although they denounce 'injustice', most health professors have not been carved for transformative political action. They set themselves in the condition of workers of education, to 'model' the new health workers, minimally ready to respond to the demands of the market. They reproduce the political given, in an 'aulic' posture, in the conception of professor Darcy Ribeiro (2007)RIBEIRO, D. Encontros. Rio de Janeiro: Beco do Azougue, 2007..

The academy has a role in the development of society. It cannot refrain from social conflicts, without prejudice to its own survival. As Zizek (2012, P. 16)ZIZEK, S. A ano em que sonhamos perigosamente. 1. ed. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2012. points out, "radical change is never triggered by the poor, in order to create an explosive disorder". Therefore, who speaks for this 'poor' if the public university, also maintained by this 'poor', does not do its part? Will clientelistic politicians or the partisan judiciary (ASSIS 2016ASSIS, D. et al. (Org.). A resistência ao golpe de 2016. Bauru: Canal 6, 2016.), who submit social desires to private interests, fulfill this role?

Not in vain, the structural trait of this objective reality is discussed:

The academy needs to review the concept of 'urgent work', urgently. Lafargue's turtle invites for a worldview where 'laziness' takes on another meaning: the necessary time for the maturation of ideas. An animal that overcame environmental catastrophe for 340 million years would be just a lazy or awkward species simply because it walks slowly? Would an anti-hegemonic teacher/researcher, then, be? It is imperative to know how to produce with quality, without leisure, in the condition of the human, in a society where to grind people is the predominance. Such perception is a premise for the achievement of the minimum autonomy advocated by Freire (2008)FREIRE, P. Pedagogia da autonomia: saberes necessários à prática educativa. 38. ed. São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2008. and that qualifies the training in any area of knowledge. In the current scenario, the teacher/researcher hardly perceives himself/herself as a marketplace, and, conditioned, denies his/her own humanity:

The logic of capital evokes 'apt' subjects, with well-punctuated curricula, however, without any integrative historical notion, with no commitment to public affairs or class struggles, despite some living the life they asked of God because of these struggles who despise and even fight. What is at stake is the way in which the academy (mis)treats inequalities and democracy in the Country. So, in the context of the training of health actors, which citizenship is intended to be structured? The one that ignores the social determinants of the health-disease process?

What freedom does the teacher have that does not mention the social misery that gets sick and kills?

In contrast, pulsating university energy wears out in bureaucratic and curricular conflicts. There is little discussion about the role of the State or the market in the definition of the university teaching model, which generates competition and causes mental suffering. It is known that mental disorders are present in the context of the universities of the world and of Brazil (BERNARDO, 2014BERNARDO, M. H. Produtivismo e precariedade subjetiva na universidade pública: o desgaste mental dos docentes. Revista Psicologia & Sociedade, Belo Horizonte, v. 26, n. esp., p. 129-139, 2014. Disponível em: <http://www.ufrgs.br/seerpsicsoc/ojs2/index.php/seerpsicsoc/article/view/3731>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
http://www.ufrgs.br/seerpsicsoc/ojs2/ind... ; DUTRA, 2012DUTRA, E. Suicídio de universitários: o vazio existencial de jovens na contemporaneidade. Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia, Rio de Janeiro, v. 12, n. 3, p. 924-937, 2012. Disponível em: <http://www.revispsi.uerj.br/v12n3/artigos/html/v12n3a13.html>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
http://www.revispsi.uerj.br/v12n3/artigo... ; LIMA, 2013LIMA, R. Suicídios e a universidade produtivista. Revista Espaço Acadêmico, Maringá, ano 13, n. 149, p. 78-86, out. 2013. Disponível em: <http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/EspacoAcademico/article/viewFile/22070/11718>. Acesso em: 28 jan. 2017.
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Values, methods, techniques and behaviors are reproduced, in a professorial approach endowed with 'self-sufficient' knowledge, in the scope of the ego, but impotent as to social utility, perceived in an emancipatory dimension of others (SANTOS; SILVA, 2013SANTOS, L. R. C. S.; SILVA, T. P. C. A utopia da reforma sanitária brasileira em um discurso no Congresso da ABRASCO 2009. Saúde em Debate, Rio de Janeiro, v. 37, n. 97, p. 210-218, abr./jun. 2013. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-11042013000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso>. Acesso em: 28 jan. 2017.
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It is an academic space of uncritical formation of the workforce for the market, converted into a devastating territory of mute bodies, deaf minds and blind souls, produced in the course of the Brazilian teaching-learning. There is, therefore, no sense in speaking of 'school without a party', as a teaching model to be constructed, but only legitimized, because it has already materialized as a mechanism of domination.

The didactic counter-hegemonic response/action of the students

It is known that teachers-researchers are complaining about academic productivism (LEMOS, 2007LEMOS, D. V. S. Alienação no trabalho docente? O professor no centro da contradição. 280 f. 2007. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) - Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, 2007. Disponível em: <http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/DetalheObraForm.do?select_action=&co_obra=98331>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquis... ). Apart from them, in the face of the capitalist offensive against public universities, students appear, also, as counter-hegemonic social actors. It is also the students who carry on the streets of the world the struggle for the emancipation of societies subjugated by the rules of the market. They starred in Occupy Wall Street and the 'Arab Spring' (ZIZEK, 2012ZIZEK, S. A ano em que sonhamos perigosamente. 1. ed. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2012.).

In Brazil, there is a similar picture of the resistance of the student movement to the minimal State and its repercussions on the quality of education modeled by the market logic. In 2013, manifestations in Brazil demonstrated the desire of the students to break with the prevailing political-economic structure and the search for the guarantee of relegated social rights. This position of resistance is not new. Almeida (2009)ALMEIDA, D. M. M. Entre ações coletivas e subjetividade: o caráter educativo dos movimentos sociais. Eccos Revista Científica, São Paulo, v. 11, n. 1, p. 141-156, jan./jun., 2009. Disponível em: <http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/715/71512097008.pdf>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/715/715120970... points out that, historically, the student movement centralizes its demands for improvements in public services, among which, transportation, education, health and safety, the main sectors affected by flexibilization and precariousness introduced by neoliberal policies.

In Bahia, there were student manifestations with similar objectives and that gained visibility through social networks. The movement of the 'black shirts', in Vitória da Conquista, in September 2016, was emblematic (figure 1). University students from the Multidisciplinary Health Institute of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) dressed in black and took the 'mourning' for the mental discomfort caused by the academic model of training.

It was the collective questioning about the type of 'success' obtained in the academic life, modeled according to the market demand. The same market which, paradoxically, does not open space for young people, in defending the 'downsizing' and polyvalence in the production of goods and services (ANTUNES, 2007ANTUNES, R. Adeus ao trabalho: ensaio sobre as metamorfoses e a centralidade do mundo do trabalho. 12. ed. Campinas: Cortez, 2007.; ZIZEK, 2012ZIZEK, S. A ano em que sonhamos perigosamente. 1. ed. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2012.).

This scenario reflects a hegemonic attitude in education (results-based business model), when the university should elect in the educational process the formation of subjects capable of acting proactively in overcoming social health needs, which goes beyond a focused professional in the technical and biomedical model. This model does not correspond to the eternal urgency of a Brazilian Sanitary Reform, whose premise is political participation and the quality of life of the population (PAIM, 2008PAIM, J. Reforma Sanitária Brasileira: contribuição para a compreensão crítica. Rio de Janeiro: Fiocruz, 2008.).

Students more aware of their emancipatory role react. They want to be proactive; they know that the unemployment that awaits them is not a detail. It is an essential strategy in the spread of inequality in the world of work. It could not be different:

Unemployment is a strategy of capital to maintain its reserve contingent and, more than that, to impose on employees the fear of not working, flexibilization of labor rights and the polyvalence of ill-health (ANTUNES, 2007ANTUNES, R. Adeus ao trabalho: ensaio sobre as metamorfoses e a centralidade do mundo do trabalho. 12. ed. Campinas: Cortez, 2007.; BREILH, 2003BREILH, J. Eficacia del poder, retrocesso del derecho y degradacion del trabajo: el escenario regresivo de la salud laboral em América Latina. Salud Problema, Quito, v. 8, n. 5, p. 7-20, 2003. Disponível em: <http://repositorio.uasb.edu.ec/bitstream/10644/3526/1/Breilh%2C%20J-CON-151-Eficacia.pdf>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
http://repositorio.uasb.edu.ec/bitstream... ). It is for this market that the university forms its students. It is this ethic that influences researchers, whose 'scale' production often does not reflect the diversity and needs of Brazil.

In health training, reading to memorize has been an effective means of reaching notes, not always learning. Thus, to believe that one is 'going well' with the pedagogy of submission to the conventional is self-deception. Attitude that compromises the formation of critical health actors and, consequently, the achievements in the fields of health and education, with imminent risk of collective unhappiness.

Blissfully, self-deception has boundaries. "Obviously, there are limits to what we are capable of making us believe. As the poet says, 'it is difficult to have visions eating shit'" (GIANNETI, 2008GIANNETI, E. Auto-Engano. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2008., P. 113, FREE TRANSLATION). If, for health, there is the economía de la muerte, characterized by various inequities (BREIL, 2015______. Entrevista: Jaime Breilh. Trabalho, Educação e Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, v. 13, n. 2, p. 533-540, ago. 2015. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-77462015000200533>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=s... ); and if, for contemporary society, one has the economy of social inequality (PIKETTY, 2015PIKETTY, T. A economia da desigualdade. Rio de Janeiro: Intrínseca, 2015.), academic apathy, in the face of the democratic crisis and the loss of rights to health and life, would correspond to the reproduction of an education for injustice, an education for death, not always for self-deception, and often for an ideological choice.

The university should be the space of the manifest disquiet of students, teachers and technicians and of whom more compose the university life. Thus, one cannot do without an engaged education and a research socially committed to the emancipation of the subjects. Paulo Freire (2008)FREIRE, P. Pedagogia da autonomia: saberes necessários à prática educativa. 38. ed. São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2008. warns that there is no problem in restlessness, bustle, claim or vitality. For him, science must understand this well, and the teacher/researcher must have the good sense to admit that he/she will not always be right in the face of his/her certainties. He says:

For Freire (2008)FREIRE, P. Pedagogia da autonomia: saberes necessários à prática educativa. 38. ed. São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2008., all knowledge is historically and socially determined. It is understood, then, that there are not only good intentions on the part of the one who teaches. There is an ideology in full swing in the process of teaching, that frees or oppresses. That promotes change or perpetuates inequalities. The university, for that reason, is a space of social disputes.

It is worth asking: what is being done in universities, through education, to ensure health in the streets and in deliberative or strategic spaces as a universal right in Brazil? Is it enough to 'teach' and 'produce knowledge' in enclosed spaces so that the university fulfills its role as an institution that fosters the development of a society? Inquiries like these cannot ignore the social needs for answers, simply because the policy action is outside the lesson plan or the individual research project. Moreover, it is impossible to deny the educational nature of political doing, as well as the political character that permeates the act of educating. Relevant assertive, when the anti-SUS forces try to impose a depoliticized school pattern and a brainless, productivist, vulnerable university to the offensive of the private sector and, consequently, unhealthy (LIMA, 2013LIMA, R. Suicídios e a universidade produtivista. Revista Espaço Acadêmico, Maringá, ano 13, n. 149, p. 78-86, out. 2013. Disponível em: <http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/EspacoAcademico/article/viewFile/22070/11718>. Acesso em: 28 jan. 2017.
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Depoliticization, pleasure and death in the productivist model

Observing what is happening in the world helps to understand Brazil, where social and labor losses are evident after the impeachment of 2016. Todorov (2012)TODOROV, T. Os inimigos íntimos da democracia. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2012. analyzes the global offensive of capitalism, now about recent democracies, which should not be underestimated by academic world:

Todorov (2012)TODOROV, T. Os inimigos íntimos da democracia. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2012. and Zizek (2012)ZIZEK, S. A ano em que sonhamos perigosamente. 1. ed. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2012. emphasize the symbolic nature of capital, which is transmuted into a religious creed before which acceptance (by common sense) takes place without any questioning, while democracies are demerited:

Not reflecting on the ideological content of what is done in the condition of educators/researchers is a position, at least, conniving with the social injustice that the dismantling of the Unified Health System (SUS) evidences. A capitalist offensive against the SUS, without a counter-offensive from academia, foreshadows the bankruptcy of emancipatory thinking and an unprecedented social catastrophe.

The neglect of the social determinants of health, in research or in class, forms a mixture of indifference or aversion to the set of knowledges that seek to explain, apart from the preferred theoretical models, inequalities that need to be overcome, if we are to speak of an academy committed to the best morbimortality profiles.

As part of the aforementioned political crisis, the dismantling of the SUS expects from the university world a commitment beyond factory-academic productivism. A reassessment of the prevailing political/pedagogical stance for health training is urgently needed. The anthropologist and professor, Darcy Ribeiro (2007, P. 89)RIBEIRO, D. Encontros. Rio de Janeiro: Beco do Azougue, 2007., reaffirms the ideological nature of teaching: "The futility of university research is almost total from the point of view of the choice of political choices". On the state of alienation that can affect the teacher-researcher, the author says that

In this context, the analyses of Lemos (2007)LEMOS, D. V. S. Alienação no trabalho docente? O professor no centro da contradição. 280 f. 2007. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) - Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, 2007. Disponível em: <http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/DetalheObraForm.do?select_action=&co_obra=98331>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquis... point to a crisis of identity of the workers that results in an uncritical attitude towards the new forms of work organization. It is when "man becomes object of his own work [...] becomes inferior and slave to the object" (LEMOS, 2007LEMOS, D. V. S. Alienação no trabalho docente? O professor no centro da contradição. 280 f. 2007. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) - Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, 2007. Disponível em: <http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/DetalheObraForm.do?select_action=&co_obra=98331>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquis... , P. 31). In this web, both the political and scientific functions of the university are adrift. The author explains:

In this direction, Chauí (2001, P. 56)CHAUÍ, M. Escritos sobre a universidade. São Paulo: Unesp, 2001. states that

She explains that university fragmentation occurs on several levels, with taylorism as a rule.

It is drawn up, with the support of the State, a neo-liberal university that expresses itself in 'academic capitalism', discussed since the 1990s by Slaughter and Leslie (1997)SLAUGHTER, S.; LESLIE, L. L. Academic capitalism: politics, policies and the entrepreneurial university. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.. Nowadays, the concept of academic capitalism, with an emphasis on bibliographic productions, is taken up by Bernardo (2014)BERNARDO, M. H. Produtivismo e precariedade subjetiva na universidade pública: o desgaste mental dos docentes. Revista Psicologia & Sociedade, Belo Horizonte, v. 26, n. esp., p. 129-139, 2014. Disponível em: <http://www.ufrgs.br/seerpsicsoc/ojs2/index.php/seerpsicsoc/article/view/3731>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
http://www.ufrgs.br/seerpsicsoc/ojs2/ind... in his study on the repercussions of productivism on the psychic health of public university teachers in Brazil.

Productivism and polyvalence in academia, which alter the meaning of work, can be factors for the psychic illness and suicides of university professors, not just students. It is known that the demand of productivity results from the organizational model of work on which the teacher has no mastery. This, in turn, when it does not get sick and kills, enslaves and alienates. In this regard, it is advised that:

Three teachers from a state university in Bahia committed suicide at an intersection of less than seven months, between 2014 and 2015 (MELO, 2015MELO, J. Mais um professor da UESB comete suicídio. Conquista News, Vitória da Conquista, 31 mar. 2015. Disponível em: <http://www.conquistanews.com.br/mais-um-professor-da-uesb-comete-suicidio>. Acesso em: 28 jan. 2017.
http://www.conquistanews.com.br/mais-um-... ). In an almost identical interval, another researcher from the same university was awarded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) because he could produce 40 articles in one year. Contradictions at the core of the academic universe require the actors on the scene to identify factors that generate pleasure and, at the same time, suffering and death in the academy (LIMA, 2013LIMA, R. Suicídios e a universidade produtivista. Revista Espaço Acadêmico, Maringá, ano 13, n. 149, p. 78-86, out. 2013. Disponível em: <http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/EspacoAcademico/article/viewFile/22070/11718>. Acesso em: 28 jan. 2017.
http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.p... ). Lemos (2007)LEMOS, D. V. S. Alienação no trabalho docente? O professor no centro da contradição. 280 f. 2007. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) - Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, 2007. Disponível em: <http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/DetalheObraForm.do?select_action=&co_obra=98331>. Acesso em: 20 jan. 2017.
http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquis... observes another aspect of this paradox when referring to a 'race' for the publication of scientific articles. There is an increase in teacher productivity and, in contrast, the stagnation of knowledge.

It is possible to glimpse, in the social relations of production in the university, a web of conflicts characterized by the interface between the taylorist model, marked by fragmentation and alienation at work (CHAUÍ, 2001CHAUÍ, M. Escritos sobre a universidade. São Paulo: Unesp, 2001.), and the toyotist organization, typified by the flexibilization of rights, polyvalence and constant adaptations, according to the productivist aegis (ANTUNES, 2007ANTUNES, R. Adeus ao trabalho: ensaio sobre as metamorfoses e a centralidade do mundo do trabalho. 12. ed. Campinas: Cortez, 2007.).

In this direction, the hallucinatory process of capitalist production escapes the mastery of the teacher and will rebate on what should be the object of his/her attention, the pupil:

This is a good context for socially engaged scientific questions (and intimate reflections). Very different from asking (now) what is the effect of adrenaline on the circulatory flow of a hamster, when the heart of the world's most universal health system (SUS) is stopping, right on the sidewalk of the faculties of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, biotechnology, psychology, nutrition and many others. Compromising situation of the right to life of millions of people, and the actors remain concerned about the 'prize', as conditioned as the employee of the month of a shoe factory, who can, at the cost of sweat and blood, achieve a sales goal to have his smiling picture hung in the production shed for thirty days. What are these values? Where will they take us?

Continuously, there is talk of the need to produce articles for the progression in the academic trajectory. Either do or die! Nothing against academic production; however, the underlying model of this production is not neutral (FREIRE, 2008FREIRE, P. Pedagogia da autonomia: saberes necessários à prática educativa. 38. ed. São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2008.; RIBEIRO, 2007RIBEIRO, D. Encontros. Rio de Janeiro: Beco do Azougue, 2007.). For the productivist, the root, motivation and necessity of curricular leisure is unknown, and how much leisure serves the maturation of thought or as a fascinating incubator of guiding questions, socially and politically potent.

While the SUS is agonizing, the university, in its womb has, so far, given birth to capitalism, the children of the market, a work force deprived of the social, instead of citizens aware of its class identity. A model still functionalist, visible in the poem dedicated to the epidemiologist Jaime Breilh:

Final considerations

In this functionalist (instantaneous) context, the academic must resist the temptation to become a producer of 'noodles'. It is necessary to mature ideas, to experience them, to test them and to discuss them in some depth, in the light of a socio-political and economic context, usually, oppressive. It takes time (leisure) and interest to recognize other areas of knowledge, that contribute to the understanding of the world around us and the social phenomena that affect us.

Life in society will always charge the invoice of the choices. The SUS is already charging. Whether gentle or irascible; colluding, silent, or engaged; if they are productivist or socially committed to the destinies of the population, all this will return in the form of losses or social conquests. And if time is enough to produce hundreds of things, like machines, it is always insufficient to reverse, politically, the rhythm of the destruction of social rights in progress in Brazil and in the world. The crisis of the university is the crisis of thinking. Threatened thinking (in crisis) contributes to forming individuals alienated from the scenario where they interact.

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