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believe, without fear mistake, that the hypocrisy is firmly established at least in certain spheres of society and letter of legitimacy. Statements of good intentions like reality coated concretas, o aquello de “haced lo que yo digo, no lo que yo haga”, o aquello otro de predicar la utopía benefactora y regocijarse en el barro de las miserias, parece ser el discurso público hegemónico. La vanidad, el sermón dogmático y el cotidiano “discurseo” barato empiezan a oprimir.
Por suerte, la humanidad guarda en sus entrañas reservas espirituales a las cuales recurrir cuando la alienación contemporánea nos transforma casi en náufragos. Reservas de pensamiento y acción crítica, necesaria para desbrozar el camino y volver a plantarnos en las coordenadas reales de la vida verdadera. En el siglo IV antes de Cristo, una anti-escuela thinkers, shook the rhetorical dogma of Athens. A satirical reading of his legacy is timely for this time of pride and superficiality institutionalized. We trust that if we want and even in Rivera we can find the spirit of Diogenes.
Diogenes the Cynic, Greek philosopher, known for its proverbial contempt for wealth and social conventions, was an acerbic and witty critic not only customs but the dominant ideas of the time. Eccentric, lived in a barrel and in broad daylight, a man sought honest in Athens with a lantern illuminating. thought to "live according to nature", so when Alexander approached him offering his services, he said his only desire was to stay away because it takes sunlight. left nothing in writing, his life and work transcended by Diogenes Laertius, Greek historian, who wrote "Lives, opinions and judgments of Eminent Philosophers."
His only possessions were a blanket, a rustic leather bag, a cane and a pitcher, at least until the day he saw a child drinking water by collecting it with his hands, which broke away from him. They lived avoiding worldly pleasures, leaving evidence that he considered folly, hypocrisy, vanity, social climbing, self-deception and artifice of human behavior.
The Cynics supported the idea that "virtue is essentially the elimination of the need." Attributed to the company the origin of many of these needs, and "that could be prevented by natural and austere life, the appreciation of the hardships, to the point of pain as a means to correct moral contempt for the conventions of social life, and distrust of refined philosophy, stating that a peasant can know everything knowable. "
Diogenes said of himself living without city, homeless, being the author of the category of "world citizen" to which many now call when victims of the blows of life traveling the world looking for bread of freedom that are denied in their homeland.
There is also than 18 years traveled to the oracle at Delphi to ask a question outright: "What I do to make me famous? ". The Pythia answered: "Change the value of the currency." And recognized immediately that the words, capsules snapshots that summarize the hypocrisy, vanity and demagogic speech, even moving the metal coined. And lips, sharp as razors, also springs openness, a sharp antidote.
Without doubt, two and a half millennia after the name of Diogenes survives, carrying at the time the story of the Cynic philosophers, practitioners of an art of living rather than a system of thought that lasted until to the Roman Empire. In 1983 the German Peter Sloterdijk published his Critique of Cynical Reason, "a remarkable analysis of ancient and modern cynicism, which defines the first as" active intelligence and oxygenating ", and current "last travesty of false consciousness after the" death of ideologies. " Frenchman Michel Onfray on "cynicism" Diogenes makes a claim that is both a critique of theoretical discourse as a solemn celebration of the link between body and know. "
Who can doubt that in the early twenty-first century, remain in full force these arguments constitute a way of self-attachment to the simplicity in order to escape the insatiable desire of objects, recognition and power. Undeterred by the temptations, austere in order to devote more time for reflection, shameless to criticize the standards of decency, Cynics taught that ethical harassment promotes the purge fellow citizens of false needs and hollow rhetoric, artificial weed city . Find Diogenes, is reunited with an operating knowledge, a stylistic of existence whose aims are to improve reflective of the person and happiness. In short, a necessary model of "civil disobedience"
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