En un reciente ensayo - 2012-2020: DONDE LAS MITOLOGÍAS CHOCAN - yo escribía sobre cómo la década que comienza será un periodo de prueba por cuanto señala el cenit de la colisión entre dos mitologías – o más bien, dos eras concretas. Exponía cómo el “viejo” sistema, aún vigente, evidencia una estructura vertical de arriba-abajo [...]
La década que comienza será un periodo de prueba por cuanto señala el cenit de la colisión entre dos mitologías – o más bien, dos eras concretas. La era mitológica saliente es aquella que ha definido, en gran medida, el reciente siglo y medio de crecimiento, avances tecnológicos y descubrimientos sin precedentes. El modelo de [...]
El mundo en el que vivimos está cambiando rápidamente. El estado normal de las cosas ya no es fijo y estable como solíamos considerar a veces nuestras vidas, sino fluido y cambiante. Los dichos de Heráclito nos recuerdan este proceso: 'Todo cambia, nada es', 'Nada es permanente excepto el cambio', 'Todo fluye, nada permanece'. Las [...]
En estos momentos resulta evidente, incluso para un observador casual, que nuestro mundo está alcanzando un estado crítico. Gran parte de lo que vemos en las noticias de cada día nos advierte de cambios dramáticos en la Tierra, como resultado de las perturbaciones climáticas: terremotos, inundaciones, huracanes, erupciones volcánicas, etc. También somos testigos de una [...]
The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges once famously wrote of a great Empire that created a map that was so detailed it was as large as the Empire itself. The actual map itself grew and decayed as the Empire itself conquered or lost territory. When the Empire finally crumbled, all that remained was the map. [...]
The manufacturing of consentis endemic within modern societies. Throughout history, the need to "persuade and influence" has always been manipulated by those people in power as a means to maintain authority and legitimacy. In more recent years, the overall manipulation of the mass public mind has become less about making speeches and more about becoming [...]
These days many of us feel as if we are drowning in information. Is our world not awash in a new fabric of communications, most of it digital? Google Chairman Eric Schmidt famously said by 2010-11 the human race was generating as much information every two days than it had from the very beginning of [...]
In a recent essay -- "2012-2020: Where Mythologies Clash" -- I wrote of how the decade ahead will be a testing time as it marks the peak clash between two mythologies. Or, rather, two defining eras. I wrote of how the "old" system, which is still incumbent, reflects a vertical top-down structure that is heavily [...]
The decade ahead will be a testing time as it marks the peak clash between two mythologies -- or rather, two defining eras. The outgoing mythological era is the one which has largely defined the recent century and a half of unprecedented growth and technological advancement and discovery. The model for this era consisted of [...]
As a civilization we are in the throes of living out an "endgame." No, not the endgame of our species or any similar dire situation, but the endgame of an era. For many of us living in the developed nations, we are witnessing the endgame of the Second Industrial Revolution. Yet overall, this endgame concerns [...]
The world we live in now is changing rapidly. The normal state of affairs is not the static and stationary that we sometimes view our lives to be, but of flux and flow. The sayings of Heraclitus remind us of this process: ‘Nothing endures but change’; ‘There is nothing permanent except change’; ‘All is flux, [...]
Poetry Collection: Expressing a Secret Brings Release
