actos son amores

new years always make me think. what am i to do while i'm here? what can i contribute?  how can i help others? how can i become a better person? what must i change? what will i endeavor to accomplish this year?  ofcourse i will continue my artistic path, i AM the artist's way.  but on a higher plane.......?
philosophically speaking, i have adhered more to the ideas of pierre pagniez than any other, believing that it is enough to appreciate this world with intelligence  and to forge oneself a happiness; fully imbueing myself in the instants in life and experiencing  a sensation or a mood are what turn me on as a rule. i believe that is why i am an artist and an aesthete. i have also given up deep thought (a voracious passion of my university years) also believing as pagniez, that life always passes through ideas and that it is life itself that is interesting.  in other words, i have chosen a life more inclined to lightness, having concluded that a heavy life wouldn't really lead me anywhere or, if anything, lead down the path of madness. much as i admire Virginia Wolff, i much prefer a room of my own with a huge quota of humor and not-so-deep-thought.

however, i also believe that our humanity requires a social responsibility (not in vain did i convert to Catholicism as an adult). I have endeavored to practice Hope, Faith and Charity, although venturing only as far as those closest to me. This awareness of my duty to tune into this responsibility has been re-awakened more strongly  now that the world is in crisis and i have once again found it necessary to stand up for an ideal. my whole sensory environment has become tainted by so called "progress" which is threatening my sensations. to the forefront the resurrection of  the credo of miguel delibes

"True progress at this junction in history lies not in an unlimited development and competitiveness, nor in making more things each day, or in inventing more needs for man, nor in destroying nature, or holding a third of humanity in the delirium of waste while two-thirds die of hunger, but in rationalizing the use of technology, facilitating access to the entire community to that which is necessary,  in revitalizing the human values in crisis today, and establishing the man-nature relationship harmoniously. "

"If progress, according to the dictionary, is making progress on a given subject, the task is to analyze whether these developments involve a decrease in others, and assess to what extent it is advancement to justify what is sacrificed. Man has certainly reached the moon but social and political organizations remain stuck in a difficult dilemma: the exploitation of man by man or the annulment of the individual by the State. In this sense we have not advanced a step. "

Miguel Delibes referred in his speech to what he calls the "butt" effects of progress, to warn that " current human development is nothing but a process of a "decantation" of materialism subjected to a marked acceleration in recent decades. Medieval theocentrism and Renaissance anthropocentrism have given way to an object-centricism, eliminating any sense of elevation of man, causing him to fall into abjection and egotism. "

Original in Spanish

"El verdadero progesismo no estriba en un desarrollo ilimitado y competitivo, ni en fabricar cada día más cosas, ni en inventar necesidades al hombre, ni en destruir la Naturaleza, ni en sostener a un tercio de la Humanidad en el delirio del despilfarro mientras los otros dos tercios se mueren de hambre, sino en racionalizar la utilización de la técnica, facilitar el acceso de toda la comunidad a lo necesario, revitalizar los valores humanos, hoy en crisis, y establecer las relaciones hombre-naturaleza en un plano de concordia."

"Si progresar, de acuerdo con el diccionario, es hacer adelantamiento en una materia, lo procedente es analizar si estos adelantamientos en una materia implican un retroceso en otras y valorar en qué medida lo que se avanza justifica lo que se sacrifica. El hombre, ciertamente, ha llegado a la Luna pero en su organización político-social continúa anclado en una ardua disyuntiva: la explotación del hombre por el hombre o la anulación del individuo por el Estado. En este sentido no hemos avanzado un paso".

Miguel Delibes se refiere en su discurso a lo que llama los efectos "culatazo" del progreso, para advertirnos que "el desarrollo humano [el actual] no es sino un proceso de decantación del materialismo sometido a una aceleración muy marcada en los últimos lustros. Al teocentrismo medieval y al antropocentrismo renacentista ha sucedido un objeto-centrismo que, al eliminar todo sentido de elevación del hombre, le ha hecho caer en la abyección y la egolatría".

actos son amores y este es mi primer paso a la accion en el 2011