{"id":3844,"date":"2021-11-30T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:55:19","slug":"christian-culture-xi-xii-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/en\/2021\/11\/christian-culture-xi-xii-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Illiteracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3844\" class=\"elementor elementor-3844\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-74cfbb5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"74cfbb5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-add67d1\" data-id=\"add67d1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-baa44ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"baa44ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3915 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/novdec21_img-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/novdec21_img-4.jpg 380w, https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/novdec21_img-4-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sfdumitru.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/novdec21_img-4-16x9.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/>Culture is too often confused with the accumulation of information. Akin to how education, in Romania and elsewhere, does not form but stores information in young brains. In this way, information seems to be an imperious, daily food of man at this end of history and beginning of the millennium. Newspapers, radio, television, advertisements, posters, the internet keep us informed. We capture information, digest it or not, believe it or not, become changed by it or not. In an indistinct \u201csomewhere\u201d there is always \u201csomething\u201d happening that calms this collective hunger for information, for newness, for the sensational. Crimes, accidents, rapes, catastrophes, spectacular derailments, epochal discoveries (which are as lasting as dandelion puff), gossip, etc. are committed by indistinct \u201ccharacters\u201d who live, as it were, only to trigger the sensational. The more this type of impersonal information is circulated, the more this world seems to be the caricature of the world for which we believe we were born. Meanwhile, true culture travels through its discreet \u201ccommunicating vessels,\u201d increasingly hidden, increasingly neglected. Ricardo Paseyro, in an already famous book, <em>E\u0301loge de l\u2019analphabe\u0301tisme a\u0300 l\u2019usage des faux lettre\u0301s<\/em> (The praise of illiteracy in the use of false scholars) (Robert Laffont Publishing House, Paris, 1989) rightly said: \u201cNever before have so many books been published; perhaps never [were they] so poorly read. The means and information and education are no longer addressed to the person, the individual: they target the Great Impersonalities, the physiological and psychological sediment of the human species.\u201d Under such conditions, the illiterate are no longer those who do not know how to read, but those who do not know what to read.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Adrian ALUI GHEORGHE<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture is too often confused with the accumulation of information. Akin to how education, in Romania and elsewhere, does not form but stores information in young brains. In this way, information seems to be an imperious, daily food of man at this end of history and beginning of the millennium. 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