Where does Europe
04
Apr
If Easter is passing, it is hard to imagine where will the world without wonder where is Europe, although the
East and the Middle East are not more European colonialism expression, was in Europe that was born the modern state and its democracy and there also germinated the industrial revolution and liberalism, but in digital times she is still the center?
Caught two exponents of European thought, because I think you have to be European to understand the crisis itself, Peter Sloterdijk wrote that “If Europe awakening” (São Paulo: Estação Liberdade, 2002) and Edgar Morin “Culture and Barbarism European” (Lisbon: Piaget Institute, 2005), a German and a Frenchman, Europe seems well represented.
I take them and not others, because they are in my view really postmodern, that is, there is a critical modernity revisiting the role of the Illuminist State, the liberal idealista- thought and finally and especially, colonialism and neocolonialism European.
Morin when considering the emergence of totalitarianism in Europe sees it as “out of all predictions … the result of a historical process out of the disaster that was World War … that was a trigger murderous barbarism while one suicidal act for Europe. “(Morin, p 51), while Sloterdijk says,” most European statesmen, Felippe II Churchill, understand the meaning of the allegorical image of the seventeenth century that depicts the Emperor Charles V as Atlas: on the shoulders of the Emperor rests a globe girded by a garland with the couplet The quam serious onus (as a burden pedado) “(Sloterdijk, 2002, p. 14).
It is the result of a colonial mentality, expressed in Morin: “This colonial barbarism, of excessive brutality, continue to manifest itself in France in the twentieth century, as is confirmed by the Sétif massacre committed on the day of the end of Second World War, the May 8, 1945, and the numerous atrocities during the war of Algeria” (Morin, 2002, p. 26).
Finally the crisis of thought expressed in Sloterdijk with the tripod: absurd, frivolity and lethargy, absurdity of the two wars, lethargy speech of the “return of Europe” after the war with “psicopolíticas and cultural characteristics” and consumer lethargy the late twentieth century, and frivolous “is one that no serious foundation in the nature of things, must be decidir- by this or that: it is bright green and not crimson, the salmon teriyaki and not mouton loaded in, … etc “(Sloterdijk, 2002, p. 27), finally connotations of a typical existential emptiness of a cultural crisis.
The Morin ideas are well known and have expressed here and in the recent post of knowledge necessary for the future, as well as the way out of this crisis “key idea refers to the process I call the planetary era” (Morin, 2005, p . 40).
Only this planetary perspective without neocolonialism and solidarity with humanity, Europe can find your destination united to all people.
