Milena Velba 2010 Archive

Violence, an expression of pride? The magic of painting

In these days of unprecedented violence, brutal, misogynist, I feel a little responsible for the company where vivo. We are all responsible when our common destiny crease so distorted as they are today. Usually, for defense or fear, we tend to exclude us, to defend themselves from what is happening elsewhere and to others, if we were Martians.

Terenzio, a Latin author rich humanitas, said "Homo sum, humani nihil alienum Puto" "I am human, I see nothing strange to me" and the sentence goes on to say: "What you do is right? I will too. It is not? Do you put off "and therefore every phenomenon, every aspect of what happens, should make us understand something or cause us to change something.

In a civilized society, so facts must be taken seriously seriously and not be like ostriches with their heads in the sand, saying that both are always things that happen and the world began. But if our attitude reprehensible to justify any (custom of the Italians) we took the habit of screening, perhaps you will understand many things well in advance of adverse outcomes.

Violence is maybe a common attitude of all of us as an expression of pride that leads us to state our beliefs, our ideas, ways of doing things and always, or rather the symptom of a company difficult to manage at this time history?

We have plenty of surveys at any time of day, to every corner of psychologists, philosophers everywhere, but each is holed up in its niche from which to observe and evaluate. Not enough to understand and know, sometimes you have to act. I wonder: a civil society takes note of what happens inside? And how to change the mistakes of society? Used to? Coexist? Evading? Or challenged? Once there education, there is now the nerve with which he justifies everything because it is widely acknowledged to be the right attitude of those who enforce, so that the "malacreanza" arrived in Parliament.

What happened to self control that was so, gentlemen? The poor Monsignor Giovanni Della Casa with her etiquette must be turning in his grave. Today we are in the age dell'antieducazione, at all levels, in all walks of life, in every workplace. So why break down for this violence? In fact it does not break down any more, because everyone is used to fight that is so trendy. Arguing audience ago, fills the newspapers, there is material to sell, to say, to silence.

When people shut up with topics is rubbish because there are other more serious problems ahead. The violence is the most immediate expression of 'assertion of his personality at all costs, without respect for the rules, nor for the other. Utopia by Thomas More, a biting satire on the society of the sixteenth century, with particular reference to England of that time, the author longs for a society based on culture, education, philosophy, pleasure, to kill the tyranny, but also to kill the pride.

Pride represents the modern vice, we all feel omnipotent, authorized and, instead of continuously improving our person, pressed attitudes that should be banned. In our small we all are healthy carriers of violence beginning with our families, circle of friends where we exercise, already small, our power. The dispute is the most free form of violence through which we vent our fears, resentment, hatred. Should be reconsidered our affective, emotional, where much often hide our fears, hidden fears and situations. Violence is an easy fall-back to our inability to solve problems, but have a right not only improper, and we claim our rights which are not. But in this connection comes about justice and, in his absence, violence proliferates abundantly, because, as Guicciardini says in the Dialogue of the Regiment of Florence: "In men it is natural desire to dominate and be superior to others." If we let this feeling to the primitive state, we might say of us the instinct of survival that leads to natural selection mentioned by Charles Darwin in his "Origin of Species", but in addition to being an instinctive species, we even intelligent beings, and therefore the feelings should be helped.

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