(Source: Corriere della Sera of 22:12:03, Editorial Francesco Alberoni)
exists because others see you, because the others you're worth praising. It was Hegel to understand how important it is for humans recognition. It is to be recognized that the man fight, fighting, search and seize power. Look around you: in every city you will see impressive buildings. Have been raised for all to see, admire them and recognize the richness and power of those who built them or live in them. Go into any harbor in the summer and you will see crowds with his mouth open in front of the luxury yachts of the rich and celebrated. What things like the scientist? Make a discovery that makes him famous and admired throughout the scientific community. See his name mentioned, exalted, go down in history. And he wants the same painter, sculptor, writer, musician, director. Miguel de Unamuno saw in this desire, the unmistakable sign that the man aspires to immortality. Sure sucks applause and triumph not only today but also tomorrow. Achilles was confronted with the choice: he wanted a life long and dark, or short-lived, but heroic, doomed to be remembered forever? It chose the latter.
The unmistakable sign of a dictatorship is the presence of the portrait of the dictator everywhere. Squares, schools, public buildings, in every home. In democracies, politicians can not aspire to much, but try to be as visible as possible. The most powerful have a team that presses on the television so that their face is always there and they always talk transmitted. Others to stand out, make some sensational statement that face to talk about them. The nightmare that unites them is not to be taken, to be named, to disappear. Disappear from the screen and in the newspapers is to die. Even the common people does exist in the media.
To go from Amadeus or Word of mouth is an endless row. And just to show off their sexual life Big Brother. There is nothing that people are not willing to do to appear. The brake, restraint, modesty must always exercise the issuer. And what happens when someone has achieved success, fame, fame? There is a time when, satisfied, he retires? No. Everyone is afraid of dying. The presenter, just finished a transmission, it waits for a new, a new actor in the drama, the director dreams of a new movie, the novelist thinks of a new book of success, the conductor for a new gig. Entering the game of recognition and power will remain a slave.
But then everyone, whatever we do, we are damned? Is there any situation in which we are freed from this condemnation? Yes For example, when we fall in love and are loved in return. Then our love is worth more than all the inhabitants of the Earth and we do not care nothing about them, what they think. We just his presence, his love. Or when we have a toddler long you want and live with him, play with him, and he is the last thought when we fall asleep and the first to wake up. Finally, infinitely more rare, is the mystic who is satisfied only in God's love makes us get out of the total prison recognition.
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