Theatrum Mundi
Lumea-ntreaga e o scena si toti oamenii-s actori…
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There was a time when a University degree assured you a of good job, good pay and a comfortable life. Not any more. Today, the unemployment rate for young people in this country is close to 15% – double that of the general population. But the real crisis is the increasing number of university and…
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We shape our tools, and there after they shape us. (John M. Culkin) I’ve read The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011) and I remembered Plato. In Phaedrus’s dialogue (sect. 274-275), Plato presents a story about the invention of letters by Thoth. This new skill is a…
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Does anyone of us think that the expression Fear is a tool to control the masses refers only to Inquisition/Christian Church, Fascism, etc.? Well, be nonconformist and think again! As happened in history, the jokers of freedom are excellent executioners! And media is now used as an excellent camouflage of fear under very permissive labels. If we ask ourselves how it is that…
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If we find stories like The Lottery and The Hunger Games disturbing, it is due to our at least implicitly Christian formation. Human sacrifice flourished in the midst of some of the most sophisticated and intellectually advanced civilizations in history. It is demonstrably the case, and not just a matter of speculation, that what brought it to an end…
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In the future, 33% of the human population will retire their cell phones and laptops in favor of a new technology which connects the human nervous system to the Internet. But something dark is coming to threaten this path of accelerating progress… The optimistic future (where technology will solve all our problems, where digital eyes…
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