It is amazing how easily most people adopt theories, beliefs, worldviews, novelties of all kinds and immediately start professing them. A deep and instantaneous perception of the truth being spoken does not seem to justify most cases. What then? It seems that such a reaction can only be justified in those unaccustomed to finding meaning in words, who finally come into contact with a discourse they understand. Is that all there is to it? Perhaps there i also something of an innate inclination to repeat. But while this inclination can sometimes prove fruitful, at other times it only reveals a gigantic susceptibility to manipulation.
Tag: behavior
It Is Really Difficult to Reconcile…
It is really difficult to reconcile inner peace with the unpredictable daily demands that sometimes seem to aim to destroy it. That is why it is necessary to come up with a conscious plan to sustain it, the primary action of which is to continually remind oneself of one’s need for it. That is exactly what refuge and inner peace are: necessities. Otherwise, one cannot achieve sobriety in one’s thinking, much less the tranquillity necessary for fair reflection.
If the Future of Paper Books Seems Uncertain…
If the future of paper books seems uncertain, not to say that their days are certainly numbered, we cannot help but proceed to imagine libraries as relics of a distant past. Forming and maintaining them, therefore, would only be done by collectors. This simple fact, although it masks the range of facilities that modernity has given to the average reader, cannot inspire good feelings. A book as an antique… What to say?
In Brazil, the Average Citizen Spends…
In Brazil, the average citizen spends his entire adult life without reading a single work of fiction. This cannot be normal, except in a culturally dead society. It is safe to say that no Brazilian writer today has the slightest influence on society, despite what the names of some streets and monuments might suggest. There is not a single literary work whose characters or moral lessons are present in the collective imagination, and so the most astonishing fact about Brazil today is that it has no cultural base to serve as a foundation and common heritage. It is not just an educational tragedy, but a human one.