All the answers -and the questions- are in you: you just have to learn to listen to them; to listen to you; because our body, which is not only physical but also the entity that carries an ancestral memory, which includes that of our ancestors, including Neanderthal DNA, is not only the closest guru, but also the one that knows the most about ourselves; but he speaks to us intermittently and shyly, muffled by the immense noise of our lives today reduced to passing between screens.
The Abbess of Sant Benet de Montserrat, María del Mar Albajar, explained it to us in “La Contra” this week, with a handbook, which is also practical and synthetic, of the method with which to focus -it is called focusing- our attention to reconnect with our I deeper and wiser.
Because antifocusing is, in effect, digital platforms and their networks with increasingly clever algorithms to capture our attention. We have to detect their influence, strategy and objectives, which are not limited to earning more money, so as not to turn our lives into a mere peonage at their service. The philosopher Mark Coeckelbergh warns us that our lives today glued to the screen will one day be considered slavery.
Let’s stop for a moment to ponder how in just the last two decades the liberating philosophy of the internet -remember?- has become enslavement for a technological oligarchy of billionaires like Musk -here I leave you a fun “against” with mum Musk- Bezos or Zuckerberg dominate the earth and space, in which they have started a true race of egos, and even eternal life, since they have launched to recruit the best rejuvenating brains to start being the first to rejuvenate themselves.
“la Contra” with humor, love and brains. The rest of the week our leading humorist José Luis Martín, father of “Quico, el progre” and of the very temple of Hispanic humor in Barcelona, ??El Jueves, has warned us that the inquisitors continue to prevent laughter from sweetening our lives: They are created on the right or on the left, they are inquisitors. Dominique Roques, a seeker of essences, deciphers that of jasmine and the neurologist with an illustrious surname, Isabel Güell, urges us to check our carotids for the good of our brains and to avoid strokes; And Antonio Liu Yang, in short, an intercultural facilitator specializing in Spain-China relations, gives us some definitive kaizen advice to improve all of them: add step by step.
