GIVES IMAGO DEI SUCH IMAGO NET. NEXT TIME THE HOLY FATHER WILL BUY ZUCCHINI IN FIELD OF FLOWERS?

Man created in the image and likeness of God wanted to rebel against Him making himself God, and today, instead of kneeling in front of your Creator, no longer even kneel before idols, but he prostrates himself before directly to digital cameras, giving up totally to live the present and projected future, as if from the philosophical and theological language of our dying world was missing the word eschatology, to make room for all other questions and purposes: … and tomorrow, What I invented, to amaze again? Or: Today I gave the daily dose to mass media going to the optician, but tomorrow I will be forced to increase the dose. So if you went to the fruit market in Campo dei Fiori to buy two courgettes under the statue of that "holy man" by Giordano Bruno?

Author
George A.. Faccio Lince

… never as today the man was committed to deface the creature being created in the image of God-likeness

The expression of Saint Augustine imago Dei O image of God [II sent. d. a. 16 1, q.1], today should be the subject of in-depth reflections, having regard to the social upheaval that seems to have changed now image net. For this I resonates in the ears a well-known expression of St. Thomas Aquinas: Agere sequitur esse [the Act follows the be], principle that is at the foundation of Thomistic ethics. For St. Thomas, from being necessarily follows the to-be. What exists has its own ontological nature that affect the action of the same entity, in the case of male moral action. The man, as a creature created by God and therefore God's creature will not only possess the simple ontological creature feature, Why must also have an appropriate moral behavior and in its way as a result of the to-be which will lead him to aspire to ultra-terrestrial perfection. For Saint Thomas being mean Act of being [They actu essendi ab] i.e. action, News. In Thomistic perspective everything exists to implement actions, and in this way be coincides with the action in its final fulfillment.

The future that awaits us? the model Valeria Lukyanova photographed with Barbie doll, which it has come to resemble …

These days are about ten years old Since the Ukrainian model Valeria Lukyanova became famous throughout the world for its natural resemblance or artificially created with the famous Barbie doll. For many of those like me who grew up watching commercials for this toy and seeing little girls play with this famous doll, has always been the question of how this would be if it were a doll real person.

The first impression we seeing the pictures of this woman is: “But it's true?». And again: «How did ... it's all the result of Magic from the computer?». Then, After the first impression, begins to take a negative rating given by the fact that it is a person totally falsified, or as it is now customary to say: all redone. In others, however, a sense of satisfaction may arise in seeing a toy you grew up with made in the flesh. In both cases, curiosity almost morbidly pushes us to look for more images and data of the model which arouses a whole series of emotions and chain reactions in the world of Cyberspace that made her famous.

The future that awaits us? The model Valeria Lukyanova posing in a swimsuit at the beach with her body transformed into Barbie doll

If the reputation of this model was the result of an advertising campaign the same company Mattel makes sense, above all considering that today more than ever in the world of advertising as in that of fashion, slogans are also based on the components of aggressiveness, of transgression, of the upheaval or total reversal of the real data. Because this is the planet where it is born and increased the fame of this model through photographs and video clips that have been around the world through social networks [see WHO, WHO, WHO]. And today the social network have become much more of a fundamental part of human communication, in particular the younger generation; for many are the only form of expression.

Ever as before, who owns a computer, a Table or smartphone has the ability to find everything they need in terms of information; as well as the possibility to express their reviews toward anything. Technological progress is so large now that we don't need to argue our choices, because with a simple “I like it” his Facebook ed a Tweet everything is done on Twitter. We can then spend time commenting everything and its opposite with a thumbs down or up, with a little heart or one emoticon.

telematic means — that could be a means of communication and dissemination of knowledge and culture, but also of pastoral care - they have instead become instruments of authentic annihilation, Sometimes the Guillotines, of parallel worlds that you put in a destructive manner to the real; a "real" now reduced the immediate, as if there had never been a "first"and there wasn't a"after”. Worlds governed entirely by snapshots that require continuous updating both by those who want to be the center of attention and by those who want to be in the know at every moment of their day. Then begins a new day, in which you do not even remember the day before and do not take into consideration the future day that will follow and which you will need to "raise the bar" of surprise and then amazement. In one of our newspapers private interviews the father Ariel S. Levi of Gualdo told me long ago that ' the story progresses so fast through its increasingly policy-historians who sometimes has the impression of not having my living, not having more time to process it, but what is worse: to live it».

the new people …

This instant update it has become an archetype of conduct in every sense, not only in the virtual world, because it is increasingly imposing in the most varied spheres: in political as in the religious and pastoral care. The aim seems to be to become "famous" or to have a role and a group of people who follow you, thereby finding the very reason for one's being, the purpose of one's life and existence.

Social networks are not only audiences of auto-exposure, But even the courts of assizes making reviews following the "law” dictated by the statistics of personal success or failure; a trap into which even our Pastors fall who seem at times more concerned with pleasing the world than with Jesus Christ, all with an aggravating circumstance: the world to which they want to pleasure has no body and has no soul, It is a world made such is precisely because without Jesus Christ.

The virtual world will inevitably produce a virtual reality

Every person who enters this virtual circle sooner or later is forced to take precise and variable forms of behaviour and expression that tend to mutate itself, because permanence in success is based on the principle of continuous updating; It is therefore necessary to provide elements of "astonishment” always higher and in ever more massive doses. Just like the Ukrainian model that has undergone a process of constant mutation and that at this point could be called the "new Eve”, the prototype of the new or future world that is not coming, but which has already taken possession of the real through the virtual form.

This instant update not only involves the world of show business – that it's not only cinema, the world of tv or swimsuit –, Why, as I said before, It affects all social scopes, politicians, religious and scientific. Needless to say, what dangers this can lead: not only the loss of values and laws that for the entire course of history have governed civilizations; not only for the loss of a conception of life, of time and of the same relationships with others, because this path leads to a consequent and total emptying of the man in action, in his being and his human creature role created in the image and likeness of the living God [cf. Gen. 1, 26-27].

the new slavery "like», I like it …

The instant update "that is the negation of theology of the body of Saint Paul the Apostle [CF. With the. 1,18] and of the Christian who becomes a living image of Christ [CF. RM 8,28; The Cor. 15,49; ] ― imposes to please always a distant world that is without penalty and body without head, made anonymous and hidden behind a screen on which symbols of liking or disliking are proclaimed destined to make up the number. Finally will be indicated with a Clik What to do for better pleasure, thereby generating the danger that all-out misconceptions will soon be imposed, but above all that a style will end up being imposed that will bring the men of the near future - in any social role, political or religious they find themselves - to a dramatic forced choice: be similar to their predecessors, or to overcome that imposed limit thanks to which today we are no longer even able to distinguish the ridiculous from the far-fetched?

This is the true and final reversal of God, of real substance and man; a reversal that blocks all in a time instant that lasts longer than that taken by the Flash cameras. Today, a Ghost Pilate without a body and soul, speaking from an undisclosed location in computer network to a mass without the head and without a tail would have ended up asking the same question: «Who do you want to free you, Barabbas or Jesus Christ said?» [cf. Mt. 27,16-26]. I leave it to the readers to evaluate the answer which in this case would end up being shouted "democratically" by the Cyberspace ...

3 September 2015, the Holy Father Francis makes an improvised in an optical shop to change lenses to glasses

The created man in the image and likeness of God wanted to rebel against Him making himself God, and today, instead of kneeling in front of your Creator, no longer even kneel before idols, but he prostrates himself before directly to digital cameras, giving up totally to live the present and projected future, as if from the philosophical and theological language of our dying world was missing the word eschatology, to make room for all other questions and purposes: ... and tomorrow what I invented to impress again? Or: today I gave the daily dose of amazement to the mass-media going to the optician to change lenses, but tomorrow I will be forced to increase the dose; so if you went to the fruit market in Campo dei Fiori to buy two courgettes under the statue of that "holy man" by Giordano Bruno?

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TV2000 is perhaps already testing the waters at the fruit market in Campo dei Fiori?