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TV is Satan's machine - Arvydas Šliogeris

An important Lithuanian philosopher, Arvydas Šliogeris (1944 - 2019) who is defined as the Kant of Lithuania, developed an analysis of the TV screen which today, in a post “pandemic” era, is more relevant than ever. According to Šliogeris, the TV screen is the most dangerous enemy of mankind. The reason is that it can detach a person from the real world and lure him into a realm of illusions and hallucinations. In today's world, the screen is the most precious gift that we have. It is so powerful that it can pump ideologies into our minds without us even realizing it. It has been observed that there are no more ideologies in the world, as they are all being propagated through the Screen. It is more powerful than all religions and all traditional ideologies combined together. The screen is a place of global deception, terror and obscenity. He is convinced that the Screen is the most reliable and effective suicide instrument for mankind. We must run away from him (i.e. turn it off)....

Evitate le Cassandre del web che vogliono solo infondere paura e scoramento

  Iudico che fortuna sia arbitra della metà delle azioni nostre,  ma che etiam lei ne lasci governare l'altra metà, o presso, a noi. (Niccolò Machiavelli) Diffidate delle Cassandre. Il web è pieno di Cassandre, che preannunciano solo sventure, che spesso nemmeno si avverano o se si avverano non sono mai nella misura in cui erano state profetizzate. Cercate chi vi dà soluzioni, chi vi apre prospettive, che vi indirizza verso l'ottimismo, verso il fare concreto per cambiare. Che le cose vadano male, che andranno ancora più male lo sappiamo, non vi è bisogno di Cassandre professioniste pagate o per vocazione naturale. Vedere i mali del mondo non è difficile, non ci vuole molto, più difficile è dare risposte, infondere fiducia, dire alla gente come regire, come sapersi confrontare in modo risolutivo contro le sventure. In ognuno di noi vi è la possibilità di reagire, di trovare soluzioni alle condizioni avverse. Non siate pigri, imparate ad ascoltare la migliore parte di voi stess...

About - once again - the contemporary meme-literature

If I consider what is published, the incredible amount of garbage that is published, and the feedback I have received from many readers, who has sincerely confessed that they have not read (or entirely read) any of these books written by one of these great writers, best-selling fiction authors with estimated sales of at least 100,000 copies, my suspicion is that their books are bought just for advice, (often) by those who have heard good things about those books from a third source (newspapers, TV, literary prizes, are metrics used for piloting sales). Actually, no one (or few) has definitely read them, for the reason that the vast majority of these 100,000 copies-super authors are deadly boring and reiterating a lack of contents.