You say positive, and in addition to imagining the pole of the battery, immediately think about its opposite, which is obviously everything that is minor, inferior, secondary, comparative of what is little.
The less in fact removes, subtracts, reduces.
Cool.
It was March 26 over 200 years ago and the French, who had set themselves up to make the revolution by cutting others (you know, those with crowns..) also found time to agree a little bit on how things should be measured: The unit of measurement will be called meter from now on!
How long is this meter?
Easy, it is the ten-millionth part of the length of the earth’s circumference passing through Paris
It does not matter that the calculations were wrong by a couple of kilometers (at that time they do not contradict them) and that over the years its definitions have changed, the French still keep one in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, next to a small metal cylinder weighing exactly one kilogram.
One might wonder, but why all this conceit to decide with what to measure things? One hypothesis might be that discoveries and inventions are rarely abstract in relation to the time at which they are made.
And also the success of the meter and the application of the scientific method to all disciplines of human knowledge seems to be due to Positivism, a cultural movement that from then a few years had origin between France and England that, Although they were given holy reason for a mess of years, they managed on that occasion to agree as Catholics and Protestants in the Council of Trent: all united against the witches, from now on we change record!
First, by positive we must mean the real, not all those stories that can not be demonstrated such as one human being can influence another as in “animal magnetism”, rather all research must be accessible to human intelligence, That if it is not rational it is not, point and beginning.
Second, the useful must counteract the useless, and what is useful must improve the condition of people, not satisfy stupid curiosity of knowledge such as those of children or those poor people who still lose time to love each other.
Third.. oh but you see that at a certain point if you are not careful it takes your hand!
In short, according to positivism, the precise must oppose the vague, if not all the widespread hope with which we are born, and that will certainly be disappointed, will end up making you become a Christian or Buddhist, but above all, and here the thought sounds really current, Certainty must oppose with force the indecision, because to spend your life looking for what makes you feel good, to support the effort of searching for something and someone who finally corresponds to you, will make of you a damned social parasite!
But how is it that such a ‘revolution’, capable of subjugating the human to industry and equating its mind with a computer, continues to be so successful?
And how did this influence the nascent psychology of the time?
As any restoration that is probably respected, bringing back the calendar to “I think so are” of Descartes, with good peace of research on the Romanticism and dimensions of unconscious thought that just at that time began to circulate.
At the stake, therefore, in addition to witches, hysteria, the unconscious, hypnosis, dreams and fantasy, and everything that can not be measured weighed and controlled with rationality and consciousness..
One might say, well and small children where do you put them then?
Those do not have the conscience but we can treat them as underdeveloped animals that only claim to eat digest sleep and so on.
But no indeed, it sounds ugly, let’s do so must have thought the psychoanalysis, that at least unconscious kept talking about it, meanwhile call them polymorphs, perverts, parricide and incestuous, maybe someone else puts their hands ahead, And if one day the technology allows to detect a part of the brain that looks like a seahorse, we could try to call it hippocampus and then say around that the memory is there, so everyone knows that it swims backwards, see?
And just happened this time.. it went like that!
Only then, you want for a historical need, you want because it was a very difficult job but someone had to do it, at some point in the seventies and just in Italy a new thought was born, brilliant, one of those who almost get mad not to have thought about it before, But then you end up making peace and that one day even if you are no longer a child maybe you fall in love:
Children, all of them, are born human.
They do, and are, in relation to others.
They are like this, if you let them down we get hurt, and if you go down hard they end up staying there, to be sick, and yes they get sick right there, in that thought that can’t be measured or weighed, and if you try to tell a guy that he doesn’t like himself, is sick or confused, that he must be happy with what he is and what he has because adolescence is the most beautiful period of all, and that many boys of his age would like to be like him, it’s not that you are just progressive and welcoming, humanist and empathic.
You also risk being a potential murderer.
Because you don’t see.
You don’t hear.
But you talk.
Marco Randisi
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