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\u201cThere is a rumor that is spreading,\u201d warned the presenter in Vistalegre. \u201cPeople want to build again, to unite, to transcend, to look at a history that belongs to no one because it is everyone's\u201d. Those who read the call in a political or religious key are mistaken. Were there participants from the right? And Catholics? Yes, of course, and people of other ways of thinking. Left and right, religious and atheists, from north and south. Many came - paying - without knowing very well what they were coming for. They had been invited by a friend. That is the key to the origin and unstoppable growth of \u201cIt's Time to Think\u201d. \u201cIt's not a cultural event, it's not a party, it's the beginning of something that has no name,\u201d they explained at the beginning of the event, shortly before releasing giant balloons and waving thousands of yellow scarves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The idea was: we already know what we disagree on, so let's talk about what we can improve and what we can help. They pointed out three problems that made up the outline of the meeting: the precariousness of life, the division caused by ideologies and the fact that the real problems are not solved.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Eleven \u201cmatadors\u201d performed in the Vistalegre arena for nearly five hours. Top swordsmen of thought, and of the social networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be able to speak, first silence. And who better than Jacques Philippe to introduce the topic. The French priest, of the Community of the Beatitudes, one of the most widely read authors of spirituality in the world, spoke of the \u201cimportance of rediscovering the value of silence and applying recollection in our lives.\u201d \u201cSilence puts us in an attitude of receptivity, of listening. It leads us to our supernatural dimension.\u201d \u201cToday we tend to plan everything, but life is not something that can be planned.\u201d \u201cThere is a tendency to react immediately, emotionally. So it is difficult to mature a reflection. It requires time, and silence allows for that reflection.\u201d \u201cWithout silence we stay on the surface of things and will not go deep.\u201d The thousands in attendance listened avidly. It was exactly seventeen minutes. Just the stipulated time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second block consisted of dialogue, with three round tables: culture, work, transcendence. The first, the Awakening of Culture, with Juan Soto Ivars -who has just become a columnist at ABC<\/em>-, Ana Iris Sim\u00f3n - the author of Fair<\/em> is a columnist for The country<\/em>- and Jano Garc\u00eda. The journalist highlighted the idea of community, which is being lost, outside the state and the market, and warned: \u201cwe do not value what has been given to us (family, homeland, biological sex) and it seems as if only what we choose is important\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jano Garc\u00eda, economist and network disseminator, pointed out the crisis in society by referring to Ratzinger: \u201cthe problem is nihilism: good and evil are the same, everything is the same, they argue\u201d. \u201cDifferences can exist as long as you have a society based on values. Everyone in their own sphere can fight to vindicate those values. This does not destroy coexistence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Juan Soto Ivars, combative and provocative, made reference to one of the cross-cutting issues of the whole event: \u201cThe key is that links can emerge\u201d. \u201cIn my house there was a grandfather on the extreme right, another on the extreme left... They argued... But underneath it all was my grandmother's phrase, which we captured in her epitaph: \u2018Quereos mucho\u2019\u201d. Ana Iris added: \u201cThe solution is that charity and love must rule. It sounds corny but, for example, Podemos refers to that when it talks about the importance of care.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Juan Manuel de Prada, the French philosopher Fabrice Hadjadj, and the French philosopher Fabrice Hadjadj were invited to speak about the Awakening of Work. youtuber<\/em> Antonini de Jim\u00e9nez. The Planeta Prize winner spoke against the precariousness of existing employment and individualism: \u201cMilton Friedman spoke of a society of robinsons and in the face of this we must put up an anthropological resistance\u201d. In this sense, he reacted against the idea of dispensing with others in the struggle for social improvement: \u201cWe need other people, and we must work with them. And if necessary, because the current ones do not serve us, create new associations, unions, political parties\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The French philosopher - who has moved to Spain and spoke in Spanish - focused on the need for work to have meaning. \u201cThe inhumanity of a job is not measured by the effort it requires. A soccer game requires great effort, but that does not make it inhuman. What gives meaning is the purpose of the work that is produced. Today that visible meaning is missing\u201d. In this regard he spoke of what he described as \u201cbullshit works\u201d (something like cow shit jobs, or bull shit), in large companies, with mechanized production or where financial products are trafficked, without the worker knowing very well what he is doing that for. \u201cThey don't do a work, they just work.\u201d He added that some companies talk about \u201ca culture of work\u201d and similar terms: \u201cwhat they do is to perfume that \u2018shit\u2019 of the bull, instead of tore it. Whoever does not want to take the bull by the horns can only limit himself to picking up the bull's shit.\u201d \u201cIn medieval knights, their effort made sense because there was a maiden to defend or save. Today at work, without that meaning the effort is not worthwhile.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a bullring like the one in Vistalegre, Hadjadj liked the bullfighting simile and spoke of his companions -and in general, of any opinion- as exercising different types of bullfighting, but all equally valid: one, a bullfighting of endurance, another, tough... Thus, De Prada described Hadjadj as \u201cour Morante: he fights with elegance and depth\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last block was dedicated to the third leg of the stool that centered the core of the event. It was the Awakening of Sense. Sarab Rey (formerly called Izanami), evangelical, anthropologist, who enjoys undoubted success in the networks talking about human behavior, shared the stage with Ren\u00e9 ZZ, youtuber<\/em> famous for his content on tattooing... until he converted and is known for his videos on the Catholic faith, and with Pedro Herrero, an expert in communication and defender of the family. It was another dialogue in which they exposed their personal convictions on religious issues without any qualms. This is very topical in the current context in which artists, thinkers and content creators \u201ccome out of the religious closet\u201d to show their faith in public without ambiguity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jos\u00e9 Ballesteros, another figure of the social networks, brought the event to a close with his messages on leadership and motivation. In the midst of festive music and an apotheosis atmosphere, in the farewell, the jurist Ricardo Calleja and again Pedro Herrero intervened briefly. They were the first to take part in a \u201csocial networking event\".\u201cthinkglao<\/em>\u201d. And they summed up with two sentences all this awakening that wanted to start in Vistalegre. \u201cWhat sustains this is the friendship of two friends,\u201d Calleja pointed out. \u201cChavales, you have to transform reality,\u201d exhorted Herrero.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The audience, enthusiastic, turned to applause. In other circumstances, they would have asked for two ears and a tail for an outstanding performance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El impacto de la convocatoria El Despertar el pasado 17 de enero en Vistalegre no ha hecho m\u00e1s que crecer. Un evento original, en el que miles de j\u00f3venes pagaron su entrada para o\u00edr a un sacerdote, y a un pu\u00f1ado de intelectuales para decirles verdades que van a contracorriente. Y para acabar con m\u00fasica […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3218,"featured_media":57664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36,41,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-espana","category-mundo"],"yoast_head":"\nThe world of work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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