Monday, May 31, 2010

Can I Use My Bluetooth Headset On An Aeroplane

Hello Peppino

Peppino Wideman has left us. Some of us have known a long time ago, someone more recently, everyone has got to appreciate the humanity, intelligence, human and social commitment, despite his age and some ailment
... There will be joy to have come to know and to follow their example.


Silvana Verga entrust the writing of the memory of our "first" member Peppino.

Association Other Future

Peppino I met about a year ago, about this time I knew it was was mayor of my town, but the neglect of the substantial things of local militant politics until a few years ago, I was deprived of his attendance, and many other people I got to know them all. The first impression I had was that of a person's acute political intelligence, knowledge of the end of the law and administrative rules that govern the life of our local community. A person, in short, in front of which the first instinct was that of intellectual admiration, almost a kind of unattainable example for me, I was taking the path of political commitment from such a short time and at a time so different.

It took very little to discover the true essence of a man whose political experience was following the true nature of its objectives, not preceded them. Gradually revealed, as behind the formal end of political discourse, a gentle man in his strong personality, capable of the positions of as many honest but stubborn retreat when he saw the force of reason others. Give up their weapons, without compromising its undisputed prestige only exclusive privilege of great men. of him I remember the pure political passion, without compromise or mediation due to the fact that he was, for a major of his life on the winning side, his ability to get angry again, sharing the same bitterness in my moments where I had hoped the effort to cross our times. As a wise man who will never resign themselves to the easy cynicism and fatalism.
I also want to remind me softly, without the rhetoric so foreign to him, his generosity so simple and so far out, he did open his home to the world without ever falling into compassionate charity, especially one that meets the needs of those who does it matter to the recipient. With a natural sense of universal humanity. I will be the last phone call with his jokes about each other's delicate health condition now compromised, always careful not to cause discomfort or embarrassment, always light and intense as an old child.
Hello and Peppino, as he wrote one of the friends who shared with us this season commitment, we would all be poorer in, if you had not known.


Silvana Verga

Friday, May 7, 2010

Gpsphone Loaded Cheats

Philosophy, ethics and political action ...

The theme is infinite (I know the amount of labyrinthine discussions on the question that I often stayed with friends and believers, cynics and nihilists, who committed politically).

But this song made me think of Martha Nussbaum, on which many people smirks "Realistic" and suspicious of the "asceticism"-style philosophy, which, from his "separation" does not think the simple loaf to take home.

"Nietzsche believes in the profound unity between our physical and spiritual, arguing that the human being is an animal that lives free of debris and the natural world. And so it seems particularly strange that, in his critique of compassion, Nietzsche refuses to admit that human beings in need of external goods in order to live "

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" In all his praise, rather abstract and romantic, solitude and asceticism, we find no trace of the simple truth that a hungry person can not think well , that those who have no shelter, the basic medical care and other basic resources for life, is not likely to become a philosopher or an artist who expresses himself , no matter what the his innate talents. "

Nietzsche does think very often, and is a writer of the Virgin Mary. He looked even perverse in the labyrinth of the human mind (and society). But sometimes speaks from a position somewhat incomplete and" detached ".
Several times I was upset about dialogue with people who speak of" detachment from everyday worries, "which display a" indifference "led-style nihilistic. irritation, my, difficulty breathing space to those who criticize the defenders of public water, public education, public health, trade union rights, welfare policies, the permanent job, those who are committed to combating social exclusion, against general social misery in short ..
In their view, defending a claim such as absolute position (nothing has value, only pricks my interest me), but they forget the fact that if you have the chance to experience and enjoy art, if you can do whatever you want; if you can live peacefully, cradled in your post-modern nihilism .. you owe it to democracy, welfare (fictional, I know, but nevertheless still present) preserved (for how long?) by attention Social few. If we can speculate freely we will have to defend public education, for example. If we have time to "happily enjoy" the most diverse of the arts to the fact that we do not have to work 12 hours per day or emigrate every 2 months, the fact that we must not give charity to be able to operate the hospital. And so on.

It 's like one that says: I enjoy the view from the pier, so I was lucky enough to be born captain. Forgetting that the sailors are preparing their rations. Forgetting that you can enjoy the view because you are browsing and exploration at the time, fortunately you're not at war and your boat can sail quiet.

What do you think?
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