Of Claudio Risé

Source: Claudio Risé
Sweat and responsibility are part of life since the labor of birth.
When they try to get rid of it, men and society weaken themselves and yes
they undo. Caesar Augustus and the Benedictine monks had already understood this.
The oldest of fake news, the hardest to die? The one that assures us
that freeing ourselves from fatigue is an extraordinary deal. Indeed the most important of
everyone. Transfer the effort to others, to someone or something that will do it for us
place is the ancient dream of the lazy that slumbers inside us, While
we work. It's also the message of much advertising. But it's about
nonsense, practicable for a short time.
It's this one, for example, the story (told by folk tales throughout the
world, in different ways but with the same moral) of the Prince who exchanges the
his situation with the poor to free himself from his princely labors and
see life from another point of view. Proposal immediately accepted by the other, ben
happy to free himself from the toil of being poor. After some vicissitudes though,
everyone discovers the unexpected annoyances of the new position, ends up in trouble, e
he must quickly retrace his steps. The adventure has them anyway
shown that fatigue awaits you in every situation, in fact it is simply there
vita.
A teaching that begins immediately, with birth. Which as we know,
it can happen in two ways, with natural childbirth, or with the quicker caesarean section.
Much loved by Italian women (who now require it beyond 38% of the
almost, European and world record for regions where it is even higher:
Campania, Sicily and Puglia), because it lasts a few minutes and there is less effort. Ma
as well as costing quite a bit’ It has its disadvantages for the child, some of which
they can return immediately, but others, especially the psychological and cognitive ones, and
they instead reveal it later (one of the reasons that earned Italy the recall
of the World Health Organization). Already at birth, Anyway, the baby
there is quite a bit’ disoriented: get out of a warm shelter where you stayed 9
months would take longer, “allegedly” precisely, not built by
surgical technique. At best, Anyway, the effort that the child
he didn't do it at birth, he will have to do it later, often with a therapist,
to put oneself fully into the world and abandon expectations of ease and
perfection aroused profoundly by a way of being born “facile”, but come on
adopt only when essential. Medical research conducted in
world amply illustrate the costs of eliminating fatigue at birth.
More generally, The fact is that without effort man remains (makes it) bambino, and the
society becomes barbaric and falls apart. When the Romans began to relocate
to the slaves their labors, included (in part) the generation of children, Cesare
Augustus realized that this more comfortable life was weakening his character
and the forces of citizens, both in their private and public lives. Per
counteract the decadence he promulgated then, in the years around the birth of
Cristo, The Laws of Julia, on family and respect for the traditions of
ancestors (the custom of the ancestors).
It was essentially legislation on the need to go back to struggling,
abolishing shortcuts and assuming one's responsibilities Adultery
they were prohibited and punished with exile. We were supposed to get married not too late, chi
he did not marry and had no children and was fined. We had to go back to work there
campagna, as the ancestors did with their laborious existences and
discrete. Some did not agree, like Julia, the daughter of Augustus, from him
much loved, but then condemned to exile in Ventotene for her lustful life and
having plotted against his father. Instead, they were intellectuals like Virgil
encourage yourself (from Maecenas, advisor to Augustus) to sing the beauty of
nature and the profound meaning of the effort it requires to give its
fruits. It was also due to their impulse and support that Virgil wrote the
Georgics, a poem that shows the soul of that’ Empire that found strength
in heroic human effort, cultivated and educated day by day on the land,
the cultivation of the fields, tree culture, of bees, the breeding of
livestock. It is in that industrious peace made of intelligence and effort that a
Strong country. The Aeneid, where the mythical hero Aeneas, progenitor of Rome, leads
the Greek heritage, is born on this same ethical system where there is no effort
a misfortune (as many psychologies and pedagogies also think today), ma
an indispensable test for the construction of thought and morality,
personal and collective. After the laws of Caesar Augustus the Roman citizens
they went back to having children and the Roman Empire lasted another four centuries.
When the Empire succumbed to pressure from stronger peoples, monasticism did
then of the effort and its educational richness of the physical and moral
supporting structure of his Rules. These are those norms and customs that (a
starting from the one written by Benedetto da Norcia, horrified by the decadence
romana), contributed to the reclamation and foundation of Europe and its own
wealth and culture (as the Wild Eye has told some
number ago). Even today, the inspired and wise hospitality of the convents
it represents an oasis of silence and indispensable refreshment for thousands of Europeans
of all conditions and ages.
From industrial development onwards however, fatigue was directly challenged by
those currents of technical and scientific thought that no longer want to help
man in difficulty (as has happened since ancient times, for example with lo
technical tool of the stick), but transfer operations to the machines,
physical and mental, peculiar to man. And then gradually replace it, come
it is already happening in procreation.
Also because at that point the man could be useless. Indeed how
says the basic principle of neuroscience, the brain “you either use it or lose it”. Se
you don't use it anymore, replacing it with machines, it dismantles, and become
“vanished” (as they once said, being careful to avoid it). While waiting
to be replaced by machines (and what will he do afterwards, and what he will live on?), the man
he becomes more stupid and becomes ill in various ways (I told it in Sazi da
Die. Diseases of abundance and the need for effort. San Paolo ed).
As Vivek Haldar said, one of Google's geniuses: “Brilliant tools,
dull minds”: the more intelligent machines you use, the more stupid you become.
Neuroscience has now largely explained how (for example) i
car navigators gradually remove all sense
of orientation, deactivating the brain areas that deal with it. The most
Smart people activate them only for demanding routes and in cases of absolute hurry. As
as many have noticed how non-stop television makes things worse
degenerative brain processes in the elderly, and then they dose, they probe the
possibilities offered instead by live music, from the open air… Whole
pedagogy poi, like the Steiner one, adopted for some time by the wealthy classes
in the West, they have banned all technology from school and from the lives of
kids, who learn to write their own books.
Because the effort, Then, it's also fun. As the elderly man he comes to discovers
mind the whole “5 maggio” of Manzoni, laboriously memorized
centuries before, or the little boy when he finally learns everything well
useful for making another one, from disassembling and reassembling a motorbike, to create a vegetable garden, o
teach something to a friend who doesn't know it. We are not, Indeed, nor alone
money hoarders, nor just consumers, nor just hedonists, but always
also much more. Find out what, Above all, it costs effort, with passions and
also disappointments. But giving up doing it makes us less human, and weaker and
stupid. That's not the case.