For Prospective director of Unesco, is experiencing a moral twilight
The Nation, Wednesday 14 March 2007
Bindé: "We are responsible for the future because we are responsible for this"
PARIS .- "contemporary societies are suffering a crisis of values. Those who yesterday were viewed as important were displaced by the frivolous. This crisis is not just the traditional moral frameworks, legacy of the great faiths, but also the secular values \u200b\u200bthat happened. "
This is the conclusion arrived at by Jérôme Bindé, Professor in Letters and director of the Office for Prospective of the United Nations Organization Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in the book that went: "Where target values?" (Fondo de Cultura Economica).
"Twilight of the values \u200b\u200bleft immature society. The three ages of life are confused and are created and recreated in the present. New technology, accelerated learning and knowledge led to this phenomenon, "says Bindé .
"There is no fixed pattern of values, stable and absolute measurement. All values \u200b\u200bfluctuate in a broad market. Its shares rise and fall according to the enthusiasm, the more subjective panics and gambling, "explains Bindé . Add: " For example, fashion, which until now applied only to areas dominated by the arbitrary and convenience, such as dress, invades our entire conception of values \u200b\u200b" . The nihilism and loss of consciousness caused suffering, and there is a general perception that the world is in crisis. From it we will, as Bindé, not without value, but with a scale of them different from what we have known.
Bindé adds that you can not live under the tyranny of immediacy. He says that to remedy this lack of sense the solution proposed by the Unesco is continuing education, a central issue of the recent World Report "Towards Knowledge Societies", coordinated by the same Bindé (It is available online at http : / / www.unesco.org ).
- Where target values?
- is a crucial question of our time. Many people wonder whether the institutions that traditionally had confidence are now reliable. Some wonder, for example, when they say they should undergo surgery if it is really a matter of health or physical or economic reasons, to increase the benefits of medical services. Can we trust the school if insecurity and lack of civility reigned and when installed in this area the lack of ethics? Can we trust in political institutions in a violent time, marked by the attacks? Loss of consciousness is only a partial response and sad. It would be better to speak of lapses of consciousness and creating new meanings.
He referred to the values \u200b\u200btrivialized. How so?
- A nihilistic evolution of humanity led to the frivolity of values. It is a little world of supply and demand. The values \u200b\u200bgo up and down. This is reinforced by the role of the media, as market logic, as well as fashion and trends of short duration, means taking into account indicators momentary.
- How do we reach this crisis?
- If anything the twentieth century taught us is that the crisis of values \u200b\u200bis twofold: firstly, a totally tragic, which led to the extermination of millions of people in the Second World War, and the other a twilight dimension values \u200b\u200bwith a certain lightness of being that goes hand in hand with the lack of maturity of society. This gives rise to new ethical: the game, availability, playfulness, the rejection of the seriousness and are seen in Nietzsche and Gide. Artists are particular ethical, ethical without obligation or threats of sanctions. We attended the "juvenilization" of society, a society increasingly immature, in which the human being seems not to reach adulthood and remains in youth.
- Why there is this phenomenon?
- For various reasons. For example, because life expectancy is increasing. On the one hand, we have, as stated by Michel Serres, healthier bodies, stronger, making the youth is much longer and, therefore, the different ages of life confused. We have a very prolonged adolescence. We see this uncertain age, which all have more or less the same desires. Before humans had a childhood, a youth and aging. Today the division between these three ages is increasingly blurred. Before you went past the age when learning to the age at which they worked and exercised responsibilities. Then he entered old age and, in some ways, in wisdom. All this is now confused. This coincides with another development, namely education and lifelong learning, throughout life. This means that man is always a student, a student almost perpetually. This means a profound transformation of the relationship between teacher and pupil, between the one who has the knowledge and the recipient.
- that relationship no longer exists?
- is messy. Adults who have the knowledge have to deal sometimes with young people who have it. We have new knowledge, those in the network, typical of young people. We see, then, in the education system and in the professional, knowledge of the experience is destabilized, beleaguered by the knowledge of the network There is a relationship and a change in society.
"When he says that we are no longer in a situation of master and disciple, also raises the problem of authority represented in this relationship. Who has the authority missing?
- In effect, any authority disappears how we met. The consequence is born caricatures of authority, which are created by the absence of such a lack of classical authorities. Phenomena are eccentric, charismatic leaders who try to fill this vacuum of authority. Also external security systems come to fill it, creating a world of hyper-vigilance, security cameras and society observed the surveillance society. But there is another symptom, and is the transformation of the institutions that symbolized the authority, as the family.
"The family, who claimed just the transmission of values \u200b\u200b...
- The family is always mentioned in the first place. You could say that nothing changed. Not so: they are the same family values. In thirty years changed dramatically. Yesterday we went from what was known as family law, patriarchal law, the family contract, and finally, the family type association, which is a family in which everything is negotiated as an NGO and in which there is no one authority. The institution changed symbol of social order, it is no longer what it was before. But anyway, there are elements that are counter to the gap. For example in the family world, as a result of increased life expectancy and that parents are busier, because both work, are the grandparents who transmit certain values. Not all transmission elements disappeared.
- What do you mean by ethics of the future?
- One way that the decisions of this have a vision of the future. Must to make decisions for the future today. Foresight is the art of anticipating in an uncertain world. Today we are not good trends in the future. It must make decisions, and I notice that there is some concern among the leaders for that. For a long time there was no awareness of these problems, but net changes that occur. If you are quick enough or is another question. This ethic of the future emphasizes the need to incorporate a new notion of democracy is not only instantaneously but also prospective.
- Is taking responsibility for our actions today?
- occurred in a few decades of this extraordinary change notion of responsibility. As a child, the responsibility was that we became responsible for our actions, the responsibility to bear on the past. In recent decades the notion of responsibility was a temporary investment, and now increasingly concerned for the future. We are responsible for the future because we are responsible for the present.
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The Nation, Wednesday 14 March 2007
Bindé: "We are responsible for the future because we are responsible for this"
PARIS .- "contemporary societies are suffering a crisis of values. Those who yesterday were viewed as important were displaced by the frivolous. This crisis is not just the traditional moral frameworks, legacy of the great faiths, but also the secular values \u200b\u200bthat happened. "
This is the conclusion arrived at by Jérôme Bindé, Professor in Letters and director of the Office for Prospective of the United Nations Organization Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in the book that went: "Where target values?" (Fondo de Cultura Economica).
"Twilight of the values \u200b\u200bleft immature society. The three ages of life are confused and are created and recreated in the present. New technology, accelerated learning and knowledge led to this phenomenon, "says Bindé .
"There is no fixed pattern of values, stable and absolute measurement. All values \u200b\u200bfluctuate in a broad market. Its shares rise and fall according to the enthusiasm, the more subjective panics and gambling, "explains Bindé . Add: " For example, fashion, which until now applied only to areas dominated by the arbitrary and convenience, such as dress, invades our entire conception of values \u200b\u200b" . The nihilism and loss of consciousness caused suffering, and there is a general perception that the world is in crisis. From it we will, as Bindé, not without value, but with a scale of them different from what we have known.
Bindé adds that you can not live under the tyranny of immediacy. He says that to remedy this lack of sense the solution proposed by the Unesco is continuing education, a central issue of the recent World Report "Towards Knowledge Societies", coordinated by the same Bindé (It is available online at http : / / www.unesco.org ).
- Where target values?
- is a crucial question of our time. Many people wonder whether the institutions that traditionally had confidence are now reliable. Some wonder, for example, when they say they should undergo surgery if it is really a matter of health or physical or economic reasons, to increase the benefits of medical services. Can we trust the school if insecurity and lack of civility reigned and when installed in this area the lack of ethics? Can we trust in political institutions in a violent time, marked by the attacks? Loss of consciousness is only a partial response and sad. It would be better to speak of lapses of consciousness and creating new meanings.
He referred to the values \u200b\u200btrivialized. How so?
- A nihilistic evolution of humanity led to the frivolity of values. It is a little world of supply and demand. The values \u200b\u200bgo up and down. This is reinforced by the role of the media, as market logic, as well as fashion and trends of short duration, means taking into account indicators momentary.
- How do we reach this crisis?
- If anything the twentieth century taught us is that the crisis of values \u200b\u200bis twofold: firstly, a totally tragic, which led to the extermination of millions of people in the Second World War, and the other a twilight dimension values \u200b\u200bwith a certain lightness of being that goes hand in hand with the lack of maturity of society. This gives rise to new ethical: the game, availability, playfulness, the rejection of the seriousness and are seen in Nietzsche and Gide. Artists are particular ethical, ethical without obligation or threats of sanctions. We attended the "juvenilization" of society, a society increasingly immature, in which the human being seems not to reach adulthood and remains in youth.
- Why there is this phenomenon?
- For various reasons. For example, because life expectancy is increasing. On the one hand, we have, as stated by Michel Serres, healthier bodies, stronger, making the youth is much longer and, therefore, the different ages of life confused. We have a very prolonged adolescence. We see this uncertain age, which all have more or less the same desires. Before humans had a childhood, a youth and aging. Today the division between these three ages is increasingly blurred. Before you went past the age when learning to the age at which they worked and exercised responsibilities. Then he entered old age and, in some ways, in wisdom. All this is now confused. This coincides with another development, namely education and lifelong learning, throughout life. This means that man is always a student, a student almost perpetually. This means a profound transformation of the relationship between teacher and pupil, between the one who has the knowledge and the recipient.
- that relationship no longer exists?
- is messy. Adults who have the knowledge have to deal sometimes with young people who have it. We have new knowledge, those in the network, typical of young people. We see, then, in the education system and in the professional, knowledge of the experience is destabilized, beleaguered by the knowledge of the network There is a relationship and a change in society.
"When he says that we are no longer in a situation of master and disciple, also raises the problem of authority represented in this relationship. Who has the authority missing?
- In effect, any authority disappears how we met. The consequence is born caricatures of authority, which are created by the absence of such a lack of classical authorities. Phenomena are eccentric, charismatic leaders who try to fill this vacuum of authority. Also external security systems come to fill it, creating a world of hyper-vigilance, security cameras and society observed the surveillance society. But there is another symptom, and is the transformation of the institutions that symbolized the authority, as the family.
"The family, who claimed just the transmission of values \u200b\u200b...
- The family is always mentioned in the first place. You could say that nothing changed. Not so: they are the same family values. In thirty years changed dramatically. Yesterday we went from what was known as family law, patriarchal law, the family contract, and finally, the family type association, which is a family in which everything is negotiated as an NGO and in which there is no one authority. The institution changed symbol of social order, it is no longer what it was before. But anyway, there are elements that are counter to the gap. For example in the family world, as a result of increased life expectancy and that parents are busier, because both work, are the grandparents who transmit certain values. Not all transmission elements disappeared.
- What do you mean by ethics of the future?
- One way that the decisions of this have a vision of the future. Must to make decisions for the future today. Foresight is the art of anticipating in an uncertain world. Today we are not good trends in the future. It must make decisions, and I notice that there is some concern among the leaders for that. For a long time there was no awareness of these problems, but net changes that occur. If you are quick enough or is another question. This ethic of the future emphasizes the need to incorporate a new notion of democracy is not only instantaneously but also prospective.
- Is taking responsibility for our actions today?
- occurred in a few decades of this extraordinary change notion of responsibility. As a child, the responsibility was that we became responsible for our actions, the responsibility to bear on the past. In recent decades the notion of responsibility was a temporary investment, and now increasingly concerned for the future. We are responsible for the future because we are responsible for the present.
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