O Brasil é bom

Brazil is good. After all, the Amazon is not being deforested, government representatives are not rich and corrupt, the World Cup construction projects were not overpriced, and there aren't thousands of poor children sleeping on the street--right?. Writing in a tone of permanent irony, Sant'Anna describes a Brazil where the old middle class observes fearfully the rise of the new middle class, consumerism is a noxious epidemic, the people are moved by nothing but money, and the Church exploits the faithful.