Why
The Box balzano responds to the need to box and distribute food for thought in a context in which the perception of no more time prevails and the need to act quickly is felt. Balzi Box is a miscellany of facts, ideas and projects fundamental for a digital rebirth.
Anyone today has even a minimal awareness of the distorted use of technological objects he is not alone.
Technology, while offering significant benefits, can be manipulated to distort reality and influence interpersonal relationships, even compromising privacy. It is essential to apply an ethical and responsible use of technology in our daily lives.
It is interesting to note that already in 1953 the philosopher W.V.O Quine 1 highlighted through an epistemological analysis, the similarity between the myth of physical objects and the gods of Homer 2. The difference between the two lies only in degree, not in their nature 3.
Can we consider physical objects as a myth, just like gods?
Today we use physical objects more and believe less in gods, because the latter have proven more effective than other myths, serving as a device to build a manageable structure in dealing with experience. The scientific evaluation of “effective”, “device” and “manageable” reveals its technical manipulative elements.
Digital Education
Digital education is left to itself, leading to unaware users at real online risks. Digital awareness must develop through common use of new technologies, so that we can understand how they affect on our lives.
Technology has transformed smartphones into indispensable prosthetic appendages, it has created virtual experiences that alter our perception of reality. Technology is no longer neutral, it is rewriting the rules by which we understand the world and our own brain.
It is essential to question ourselves about the scenarios that emerge from technological evolution and the vision of the world that is anticipating us. Reflection must focus not only on what we are, but also on what we could become in a context increasingly influenced by the advancement of technology.
The balzano thought
The balzano thought can be seen as a concentration of normality when one goes beyond ordinary patterns, since it implies the ability to grasp elements from broken down indices and to order them in a new narrative liaison.
Today may seem normal that would have outraged you yesterday.
If the background noise is raised to a higher level, integrating the illogical parts into new rules that the masses struggle to perceive, or will perceive only when it is too late, the goal has been achieved. If, on the edge of this northern show, you can glimpse a faintly luminous road, then you are a true balzano.
Gentlemen and fools are born, they are not made4.
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Memory and Action
It is reductive to consider memory simply as a repository of past events, it rather functions as an active constructor of meaning. Every event, that we live, is reinterpreted through our personal background and is never represented in a neutral way. In this process, we reconstruct and integrate experiences into our personal narrative, giving them a meaning that goes beyond simple memory. This process of reworking is fundamental to give meaning to our actions.
Human actions can be understood both as responses to external stimuli and as expressions of internal intentions. However, without the context provided by memory, these actions risk to appear meaningless. Memory provides the framework necessary to understand the reasons that drive us to act in a certain way, allowing us to give coherence and meaning to our choices.
Live to Remember
If we ask ourselves why we do what we do, we ask ourselves if our actions only make sense if they are remembered. This leads us to consider that memory plays a crucial role in give meaning to our experiences.
The question “do we live only to have memories of our live?” suggests that our existence may be defined by our ability to remember. Through reflection, we have the opportunity to examine our past experiences and understand how they influence our present and shape our future. This process of introspection not only enriches our comprehension of ourselves, but also allows us to make more conscious and meaningful decisions.
Hope and Desire
Hope and desire are linked to memory. Hope can be seen as a memory of what might happen, an anticipation of future possibilities that is rooted in past experiences.
Similarly, desire can be described as a memory of what we want to happen in the future, an aspiration that draws nourishment from our dreams and previous experiences. Our aspirations and dreams are not simply figments of the imagination, but are deeply influenced by the past experiences and memories we carry with us.
Memory not only helps us understand our past, but also shapes our expectations and desires for the future.
Willard Van Orman Quine , American logician and philosopher (Akron, Ohio, 1908 - Boston, Massachusetts, 2000). ↩︎
Homer’s gods are complex poetic constructs that give body and word to the Greek deities. ↩︎
Quine suggests that our understanding of the world is influenced by similar mental constructions, and the difference between considering a physical object and a mythological god is more a matter of degree of acceptance and empirical evidence, rather than a fundamental difference in their nature. Physical objects are generally accepted as real and verifiable through observation and experiment, while mythological gods are considered entities of a belief system, both can be seen as products of our minds that seek to explain complex phenomena. ↩︎
Homage to the expression of Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis of Byzantium, aka Totò. ↩︎
Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez - Tuxtla Gutiérrez, March 25, 1926 – Mexico City, March 19, 1999, was a Mexican poet and politician. Do we do things only to remember them? Do we live only to remember our life? Because it happens that hope is also memory and desire is memory of that which will come. ↩︎