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  • Sclavii credinței (3. Povara modernizării – despre prejudecăți și progres)

    January 26, 2011

    3. Povara modernizării

    Prejudecăți? Nici vorbă! Doar marșul glorios al progresului.

    Îmi pot permite prejudecata inconfortabilă că mintea umană este predispusă prejudecăților convenabile, stabile, comode, indiferent de rafinamentele academice sau de calculele rudimentare ale subiecților care le practică. În fața unor astfel de realități, nemachiate de finețuri culturale/estetice, platforma decepției pare a fi democrat împărțită, chiar dacă ea este valorizată diferit.

    Este un lucru bine cunoscut faptul că matricea culturală actuală păstrează încă reziduri ale gândirii iluministe. Mă refer mai ales la magnetismul ideii de progres social. De la Condorcet încoace am fost injectați cu optimismul progresist, noutățile tehnologice, avansul cunoașterii științifice și prosperitatea economică fiind înzestrate cu puterea de a schimba valorile culturale și morale (a se citi și critica Iluminismului pornind de la Edmund Burke până la Isaiah Berlin’s counter-Enlightenment și David William Bates, Enlightenment aberrations: error and revolution in France, Cornell University, 2002).

    În cele din urmă, finalitatea unei societăți a progresului s-a camuflat în eșecul vizibil al comunismului, un experiment văzut ca emanația extremă a Iluminismului, așa cum observa Arthur Koestler în Le Dieu des tenebres (tradus sugestiv în limba engleză ca The God that failed). Varianta capitalistă a utopiei comuniste pare a fi distopia unei tehno-societăți dominată de o dictatură corporatistă. Rămâne dar ca viitorul să ne confirme sau infirme coșmarul distopic în care se înfundă “luminarea” de care vorbeau Kant & Co. Dar despre arsenalul utopic iluminist care este folosit în războaiele culturale de astăzi poate că vom avea prilejul să vorbim mai pe îndelete cu o altă ocazie.

    Având schițat acest context, urmează să detaliem relația dintre modernizare și credința creștină, așa cum este ea antagonizată de un fundamentalist creștin.

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  • Oare ce ar spune Bach?

    January 24, 2011

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  • Human Planet

    January 22, 2011

    BBC ONE:

    Human Planet is an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping landmark series that marvels at mankind’s incredible relationship with nature in the world today.

    Uniquely in the animal kingdom, humans have managed to adapt and thrive in every environment on Earth. Each episode takes you to the extremes of our planet: the arctic, mountains, oceans, jungles, grasslands, deserts, rivers and even the urban jungle. Here you will meet people who survive by building complex, exciting and often mutually beneficial relationships with their animal neighbours and the hostile elements of the natural world.

    Human Planet crews have filmed in around 80 locations, bringing you many stories that have never been told on television before. The team has trekked with HD cameras and state of the art gear to film from the air, from the ground and underwater. The result: a “cinematic experience” created by world-class natural history and documentary camera crews and programme makers.

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  • The Test of the Morality of a Society

    January 20, 2011

    ‎The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

    (Dietrich Bonhoeffer cited in George Stanley McGovern, Bob Dole, Robert J. Dole, Donald E. Messer, Ending hunger now: a challenge to persons of faith, Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, 2005, p. 6)

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  • Your Love is a Song

    January 20, 2011

    I listen this song quite often lately. It’s powerful in meaning, simple in melody, great for reading 1 Cor. 13 and for sharing intimate thoughts.

    To share what has been offered to us is the greatest wealth in our lives …

    My love…, your love…, His love… is a song, a symphony, a remedy…

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