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"Davanti al guru fatti canguro"
Redenzione senza conversione: un mito tecnicizzato
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di Valter Binaghi
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La situazione storica in cui ci troviamo oggi in occidente presenta agli occhi dei più i caratteri dell’aberrazione diffusa, cioè di un ordine socio-economic unsatisfactory but which no one seems to pull the strings of a culture full of degrading myths that players seem unable to resist, a loneliness of the individual in the crowd hysterical performances only serve to accentuate the individual. In this context, the need for deep and true that man expresses is that of redemption, and that is where the teacher will begin their work, that is, who wants to help him to rediscover himself, but unfortunately, the demagogue, that is, who wants to manipulate and enslave.
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Redemption and its historical figures
Lonergan defines redemption as "a break with the past, the dead hand its institutions, the mindset that has produced, the resentment and hatred in the minds it is the explanation "(1)
Mircea Eliade (2) has shown how effectively the orgies connected with the rituals of prehistoric fertility cults or Dionysian the Roman Saturnalia, similar to a kind of escape from historical time, but also to a periodic regeneration of the social universe, which needs every now and then a shuffling of cards, whose ritual character but guarantees the continuity of the traditional order. It 's easy to demonstrate how such an attitude survives in the historical period in festivals such as Carnival.
In the Old Testament redemption is inseparable from the image "New Earth", both in the case of Abraham, the father of faith in the true God, and the Exodus of Israel from Egypt which is precisely the release from bondage of sin. We know that the geographical discoveries were of funds, but also that Christopher Columbus was convinced to find the Eden beyond the ocean. Similarly, the Pilgrim Fathers landed on the Atlantic coast of the future United States of America fleeing from a society which has become hostile and unworkable, and carrying with him the dream of the biblical Promised Land (and we know what the religious basis of this epic Civil has deeply marked the history of the USA). The political literature of the Renaissance the rest had already been powerfully influenced by this image of "New Earth", if we think of works such as Utopia of Thomas More, City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella or The New Atlantis of Francis Bacon. Finally, the Jewish eschatology is an important element in the foundation of revolutionary Marxism, and in general is difficult to separate from the messianic revolutionary movements, such as Ernst Bloch knew.
Christianity saw in Jesus the Redeemer of mankind, yet in a different way: "Que-redemption is not what was expected: an eschatological transformation of this world, total destruction degli ingiusti ed un millennio di pace e di prosperità per i giusti. La redenzione in Cristo Gesù non cambia il fatto fondamentale del peccato che continua a portare alla sofferenza e alla morte. Però, la sofferenza e la morte che derivano dal peccato ricevono in Cristo Gesù un nuo­vo significato. Essi non sono più il triste, doloroso termine del differenziale del peccato, ma anche il mezzo per la trasfigurazione e la resurrezione”(3). Egli è colui che, avendo vinto il mondo ed essendo risorto dai morti, conduce l’uomo alla pienezza della vita spirituale, non rinnovando il suo tempo o la sua patria ma il suo stesso essere. Questo ha un valore non solo personale, ma è anche un rimedio al peccato come reazione chain, the perpetuation of social disorder: "The acceptance of suffering ends, at least at one point, the chain reaction of sin invades a society completely. When everyone is trying to escape the pain, when no one accepts it, the weight always goes to another "(4). After
Christ is impossible to think seriously about the redemption if not in terms of a personal conversion: it is the parable of contemporary existentialism faith that, as an atheist in many of its representatives (Heidegger, Sartre) enucleates the difference between authenticity el 'inauthentic, separated by a gap that has the same characteristics of spiritual conversion, a change that concerns not the environmental conditions of man, but the quality of his freedom.
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Redemption without conversion: myths technicized
It 'obvious that the various forms of pseudo-Dionysius (from disco to rave), with the outline more or less consequential and psychotropic substances, the teenager to return today, the myth primitive mechanized orgy with liberating effects that last as long as a drunk and immense profits of the entertainment.
Similarly, the image of the "New Earth" live in the glossy photographs of the South Seas but also of Club Méditerranée, the EPA exotic stay restful is one of the items of expenditure the most important and emotional investment for the man in the consumer society, but this could not happen if everything was not seasoned by hope for a catharsis that travel agencies are obviously far from being able to guarantee.
Finally, instead of internal renewal (exhausting: it is nothing less than a conversion to match the intellectual, moral and religious), there is the supply of new bodies, carved from the body building or toning cosmetics waiting for more drastic action surgery, which now takes place far below middle age. Some time ago I informed reasons for "literary" and I heard from a well-known cosmetic surgeon in Milan that one of the most coveted gifts for the eighteenth birthday of nymphets Lombard has a size of the breast, kindly paid for by the mother herself pleased. Sic.
just a step higher, the racket of inner peace. That is the mystical new age of hop that downloads of meditation that focuses of touch that opens the chakras, allowing managers and headhunters with salaries of jade to return to the office after their stay monastic refreshed and more efficient than before.
Personally, when I left in '77 "Re Nudo", transformed by the Director in the parish bulletin of the "orange" Rajneesh, with my friend Gianni De Martino (already suggested that: "in front al guru fatti canguro”) decisi che non avrei affidato la mia anima a tali animatori. I quali, tra parentesi, a quel tempo facevano proseliti tra i delusi della pedagogia rivoluzionaria e gli orfani di Marx. Ma questa è un’altra storia.
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Redemption and its historical figures
Lonergan defines redemption as "a break with the past, the dead hand its institutions, the mindset that has produced, the resentment and hatred in the minds it is the explanation "(1)
Mircea Eliade (2) has shown how effectively the orgies connected with the rituals of prehistoric fertility cults or Dionysian the Roman Saturnalia, similar to a kind of escape from historical time, but also to a periodic regeneration of the social universe, which needs every now and then a shuffling of cards, whose ritual character but guarantees the continuity of the traditional order. It 's easy to demonstrate how such an attitude survives in the historical period in festivals such as Carnival.
In the Old Testament redemption is inseparable from the image "New Earth", both in the case of Abraham, the father of faith in the true God, and the Exodus of Israel from Egypt which is precisely the release from bondage of sin. We know that the geographical discoveries were of funds, but also that Christopher Columbus was convinced to find the Eden beyond the ocean. Similarly, the Pilgrim Fathers landed on the Atlantic coast of the future United States of America fleeing from a society which has become hostile and unworkable, and carrying with him the dream of the biblical Promised Land (and we know what the religious basis of this epic Civil has deeply marked the history of the USA). The political literature of the Renaissance the rest had already been powerfully influenced by this image of "New Earth", if we think of works such as Utopia of Thomas More, City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella or The New Atlantis of Francis Bacon. Finally, the Jewish eschatology is an important element in the foundation of revolutionary Marxism, and in general is difficult to separate from the messianic revolutionary movements, such as Ernst Bloch knew.
Christianity saw in Jesus the Redeemer of mankind, yet in a different way: "Que-redemption is not what was expected: an eschatological transformation of this world, total destruction degli ingiusti ed un millennio di pace e di prosperità per i giusti. La redenzione in Cristo Gesù non cambia il fatto fondamentale del peccato che continua a portare alla sofferenza e alla morte. Però, la sofferenza e la morte che derivano dal peccato ricevono in Cristo Gesù un nuo­vo significato. Essi non sono più il triste, doloroso termine del differenziale del peccato, ma anche il mezzo per la trasfigurazione e la resurrezione”(3). Egli è colui che, avendo vinto il mondo ed essendo risorto dai morti, conduce l’uomo alla pienezza della vita spirituale, non rinnovando il suo tempo o la sua patria ma il suo stesso essere. Questo ha un valore non solo personale, ma è anche un rimedio al peccato come reazione chain, the perpetuation of social disorder: "The acceptance of suffering ends, at least at one point, the chain reaction of sin invades a society completely. When everyone is trying to escape the pain, when no one accepts it, the weight always goes to another "(4). After
Christ is impossible to think seriously about the redemption if not in terms of a personal conversion: it is the parable of contemporary existentialism faith that, as an atheist in many of its representatives (Heidegger, Sartre) enucleates the difference between authenticity el 'inauthentic, separated by a gap that has the same characteristics of spiritual conversion, a change that concerns not the environmental conditions of man, but the quality of his freedom.
.
Redemption without conversion: myths technicized
It 'obvious that the various forms of pseudo-Dionysius (from disco to rave), with the outline more or less consequential and psychotropic substances, the teenager to return today, the myth primitive mechanized orgy with liberating effects that last as long as a drunk and immense profits of the entertainment.
Similarly, the image of the "New Earth" live in the glossy photographs of the South Seas but also of Club Méditerranée, the EPA exotic stay restful is one of the items of expenditure the most important and emotional investment for the man in the consumer society, but this could not happen if everything was not seasoned by hope for a catharsis that travel agencies are obviously far from being able to guarantee.
Finally, instead of internal renewal (exhausting: it is nothing less than a conversion to match the intellectual, moral and religious), there is the supply of new bodies, carved from the body building or toning cosmetics waiting for more drastic action surgery, which now takes place far below middle age. Some time ago I informed reasons for "literary" and I heard from a well-known cosmetic surgeon in Milan that one of the most coveted gifts for the eighteenth birthday of nymphets Lombard has a size of the breast, kindly paid for by the mother herself pleased. Sic.
just a step higher, the racket of inner peace. That is the mystical new age of hop that downloads of meditation that focuses of touch that opens the chakras, allowing managers and headhunters with salaries of jade to return to the office after their stay monastic refreshed and more efficient than before.
Personally, when I left in '77 "Re Nudo", transformed by the Director in the parish bulletin of the "orange" Rajneesh, with my friend Gianni De Martino (already suggested that: "in front al guru fatti canguro”) decisi che non avrei affidato la mia anima a tali animatori. I quali, tra parentesi, a quel tempo facevano proseliti tra i delusi della pedagogia rivoluzionaria e gli orfani di Marx. Ma questa è un’altra storia.
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Valter Binaghi
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1) Bernard Lonergan, Dell’educazione , Città Nuova Editrice, pag. 106.
2) Mircea Eliade, Il mito dell’eterno ritorno , Borla.
3) Lonergan, Ivi pag. 108.
4) Ivi pag. 110.
2) Mircea Eliade, Il mito dell’eterno ritorno , Borla.
3) Lonergan, Ivi pag. 108.
4) Ivi pag. 110.
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