Certainly, it is cold in Ukraine, under the missiles which condemn innocent people to the dark nights of humanity. Winter imposes its polar temperature on the homeless and refugees who cross the sea of their despair. The Covid inspires a marble social distancing, like a mask that hides the smile of the other beggar on the path of life.
Beyond wars and sanitized confinements, we have been witnessing for several decades, in general indifference, a phenomenon that is as icy as it is rigorous, that of the process of freezing the spiritual and humanist values of our Western consumer society, dominated by fierce economic and financial logics.
“Contemporary man is denying his inner life in favor of his outer life, cutting himself off from his spiritual depths in favor of his superficial appearance.”
Some consider that there is a collapse of the Judeo-Christian civilization, of its traditional, family and religious values, moreover replaced by the vacuum of the atheistic materialist culture. The era of the global warming of the planet would paradoxically coincide with that of the cooling of hearts and the decline of the soul!
Parallel to the putting to death of the gods, one glorifies the man-object, like “thing” to be sold, rented and manipulated, according to the paradigms of an inanimate relativism.
The world of globalization appears uniform and modelled, automated and standardized, controlled by algorithms and artificial intelligences that reduce human beings to avatars of the virtual. Hypnotized by smartphones, hyper-connected but increasingly alone, the younger generations evolve in a world without faith or law, in search of this human warmth that has been stolen from them.
After having destroyed the planet Earth, are we also going to dehumanize theHomo sapiens and cement his mind?
Obviously, contemporary man is in the process of denying his inner life in favor of his outer life, of cutting himself off from his spiritual depths in favor of his superficial appearance. Often cut off from his intuition and his sensitivity, his dreams and his creativity, his roots and his Mother Earth, he wanders like a zombie in the disenchanted labyrinth of robotized humanity.
Childhood and simplicity
Thus, during Advent, welcome back to the Christmas crib, symbol of a more human and intrinsically sacred creation. Independently of its religious character and identity, we contemplate the spirit of childhood and simplicity, the breath of an ox warming a newborn, the crackling of a fire lighting up the silence of the night. Our heart becomes a nativity scene, an intimate reception of the Beyond within, like a caress or a birth that accompanies the awakening of consciousnesses thirsty for infinity.
Maybe it’s just legends and stories of angels? But what if they allowed us to find a star and hear the fragile music of life?
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Emanuele Alfani denounces the disappearance of spiritual and humanist values from our society.
Emanuele Alfani