Illo tempore me a young man he attended, however brilliantly, elementary schools in Costigliole d'Asti.
I was a kid, and my memories are not very detailed. I remember a skinny building. Inside the old desks, chairs, old, old walls, old flooring. After
a courtroom dais old, a former professor, a former teacher, and behind them, attached to the wall, a blackboard, the crucifix and the picture of the president. In practice
attended the school's draft of the book Heart. The draft never renovated the school's book Heart.
What memories ... I learn from newspapers that according to a recent ruling by the European Court, the memories of succeeding generations of European children will have less detail in a crucifix.
will not go into the merits of the religious and political significance of the thing. My comment is purely cultural.
touring the world to work, I had the opportunity to meet with different cultures, and over the years I gained an overview of the religion.
Religion is not just ceremonies, prayers, places of worship and organization of the faithful.
Religion is something else. It 's a filter imperceptible. A cultural imprint that is reflected on the vision of the world.
E 'is a phenomenon common to all, even the most radical atheist. It is easy to see why we normally live in a common cultural matrix, and then we tend to think that our vision is simply common sense
daughter. But what is common sense and where it comes from?
An example: the poor. Linger and think about the poor. Most probably think of when
poor, you think of a person to help. To a need.
This feeling inside of our culture is
sensible, obvious and reasonable . This is simply because our cultural background is Christian.
If I had the same question to an Indian, the answer would be different.
For a Hindu the poor is a reflection of bad behavior in previous lives. Helping the poor is wrong, because they are not allowed to atone for and aspire to improve in the next life. Within their culture, this is
sensible and reasonable course . His cultural background is Hindu. The different cultural matrices
change all aspects of life, not just the concept of good and evil. Affect all aspects of reality.
Even seemingly objective and measurable aspects such as time.
Cultures who believe in reincarnation have a cyclical view of time. Things go back and repeat.
Cultures who believe in the afterlife instead perceive time as linear. Everything has a beginning and an end.
Try to dwell on what it may mean a different concept of time ... not just a matter of philosophy.
The capitalist model is definitely the son of a linear view of time: all activities are aimed at the development. Growth. There is a starting point (current situation) and continuous improvement. Linear and projected forward.
What if the capitalist model was born into a culture where time is cyclical? Where it all comes back? Where you can not grow indefinitely? Surely it would be a different capitalism.
would have been the product of another culture. A culture represented by an elephant, or a goddess with eight arms. I do not know. I know my culture and my way of being represented by a crucifix, and frankly I am surprised to learn that so important a symbol to be read in a strictly religious and sacrificed in the name of universal equality hypocrite, and ironically also the daughter of the same Christian culture.
If God exists, has a great sense of humor.
