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Stop on the Journey Apparently, the human being comes to life bringing no information but only a predisposition to learn from the world he or she will explore and discover along their existence. But whether he carries around a loaded parcel of items that is undecipherable or he brings a plain tabula rasa  it will take a very long time to understand. Yet both situations occur, it takes the surrounding people a lifespan to get to know him deeply and for him to know himself as much as he would like to. The learning materials that he is induced to acquire, he perceives with or without any possible consent. Educational systems, embedded in a particular socio-economical structure, have been designed to make young people, the newcomers, open their intellectual mouths and ingest the food the previous generation had tasted and established the unavoidable thing to eat. That food is the only available as permitted by the circumstances that have conditioned the previous consumers and for...
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The Discovery of Culture To be born a millennial puts you straightforwardly over a giant's shoulder. The problem is to be courageous enough to look the giant straight into his very eyes. But first, what do you see once the giant is taking you around? You see a nice village, usually buildings and amusing items already built for you to touch, use, buy and sell, once you get down from your upper position. The world over there does not seem to be hard to walk on. The roads as perfectly flat, wide and harder than a natural terrain. Even though the giant's pace makes comfortable your travel, there are vehicles running much faster, fly far away above the city, carrying humans along ways that don't lack pointers and signs directing you to a precise destination among the hectic urban atmosphere. You just can guess where everybody goes only stopped by the red lights at the corners. Anyhow, by learning you will soon do the same with your own feet or on wheels. The world preex...
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Knowledge It can constitute a problem if the use of knowledge does not serve the building up of better systems that enable people to have a more meaningful life. Knowledge is the substantial resource humans are provided with as a species whose existence depends not merely on natural resources but on proper ways of informing our behaviour as well. The better information we obtain the more we become capable to make decisions in any sphere of our life, whether it be the choice of items we purchase from the market or the successive step towards the attainment of a trascendental goal. One thing is true, that we are what we are at the moment of that decision. We do not tend to compare the current decision we are making with any body else's decision, often not even with our own previous decisions made on similar circumstances. A prominent master once said that we cannot behave differently from the way our spiritual status allows us at that particular moment. That is a mystical claim pe...
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Communication The Information Gap: Let us Think. According to the theory of communication, people communicate on the behalf of a lack of information on one side of the participants. You can also say that there is a difference of content between the parts. Actually, communication makes that gap visible so that the participants are aware of what somebody knows and how it is related to the content of information the other participant lacks. However, another important aspect in this concern is that whenever the event of communincation takes place, the awareness of two things occurs. Firstly, that the part that is provided with the piece of information becomes conscious of having it. Secondly, that the part not possessing that piece of information becomes conscious of not having it.  Are those conditions enough for communication to happen? Well, not really. Otherwise, human communication might be comparable to a simple Physics experiment where, in a system, energy gets trans...
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