Mandianes Manuel brings an article World, published today, with the title " Easter and Postmodernism." In it the author argues that "The lack of generosity and courage, the fanaticism that threatens society from outside and nihilism that the threat from within is characteristic of postmodernism which puts the happiness and joy in wealth, success and the triumph because he considers only sources of pleasure. "The great ethical and moral ills of our society, characteristic of the postmodern era we live in have their origin in the loss of faith, the existence of a spiritual void that we can not fill in with something satisfactory, "The confusion and distress experienced by postmodernism has much to do with the lack an envelope and totalizing grand narrative "in the words of the author. And this causes the "anxiety of many people today (which) translates into fear, terror, anguish, anxiety and madness."
agree with Mr. Mandianes that postmodernism and theories that underpin it ended with the grand narratives of Enlightenment proposing to change nothing, an ideological vacuum and an extreme relativism. However, I do not think the solution to the problems of postmodernity is a return to religion as the author advocates.
Mandianes For Manuel, it is necessary around the rituals, especially Christians, a return to moral and ethical foundations of religion. The current ills are caused by banishing the great religious story, a Christian to be more precise, which leaves the individual without a guide, without meaning, without a way to go. Therefore empty of religious value is normal, according to the author, that alternative values \u200b\u200bless spiritual and more worldly and questionable as it states the principle: success, wealth, sex and many others, since they are unable to fill that gap successfully left by the Faith, addressing to a constant search for the former. We all want more success, more wealth, more sex and nothing that we can meet our expectations.
I do not believe that the pursuit of success, money or sex be a problem if, of course, do not break a set of rules established for their achievement or cause unhappiness in the individual who tries to achieve. The criminalization of these objectives is not new in Christianity, which always has imposed austerity versus abundance, flock to the individual. Another thing would be Protestantism as exemplary as Max Weber explained in its century-old play, " The Protestant Ethic and the capitalist spirit " summit inaugural work and sociology. Neither communism is very supportive of these goals as mundane, which puts the communal to the personal, with consequences we know.
Mr. Mandianes seems to ignore that economic freedom, sexual freedom and the fight against poverty are part of their origin, in the fight against religion and religious freedom of the liberal revolutions of the Enlightenment. When religion occupied the center of daily life, as in feudalism and the Middle Ages, the success or wealth belonged to the few and among those elected, were the ecclesiastical hierarchy. Not to mention, censorship and sexual prohibitions were imposed and that through these rites of passage that the author argues, served to increase the power and influence of the Church on individuals to control the most important moments for a person : birth, wedding, death, etc. Of course, not so religious that period and height for the Faith, was a time when anxiety, fear, terror, anguish, anxiety and madness are minors, quite the opposite.
The only effective way to stop these feelings and sensations as negative (fear, anxiety, etc), has given us the science, especially neuroscience. And thus the importance of education. Scientists have discovered in recent years that what causes fear is change, we're unhappy because we are unable to enjoy the journey, our brain is programmed to not be scheduled and that the most important task that lies ahead is to learn to unlearn. This does not mean banishing religion, quite the opposite, but place the happiness in our brain and not rely on dogmas it whatsoever.
