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advantages to its victims. It is an uneven development which has fatally tied our destiny to the advances of the world and has made us beings dependent on objects.
It is a world entangled in things which are discarded without possible repair and are renewed incessantly from an evolution that is heading as frantically as it is unstoppably towards efficacy. An excess which has displaced man, replacing the traditional world of human labour with robotised work.Today the Franciscan dream of being in a world, naked and stripped
of temporal things, is fading; on the contrary it is things which define us, making us what we are, prosthetic nature and without return.We are increasingly distancing ourselves from the hermits’ conceptions of poverty and charity as the sole attitudes
to life which can truly solve material struggles and class differ- ences through the teaching of dispossession, sharing and partici- pation. But the biggest danger has shown only part of its face, as the current cynicism of trade lies in the fact that it presents itself as something that is lacking in a particular political and ideological stance, something neutral that only endeavours to spread wealth by providing possibilities to those who lack them and distributing progress in the world. Charitable souls who distribute wealth and work. Modern maya and illusion of the poor man who believes in the generosity of the rich man and
is unaware of his infinite greed.This year’s meeting at Davos began with a reminder that some 1.2 billion people in the world are reckoned to live on less than a dollar a day. Capital is in increasingly fewer hands, the victor of the failed communist utopia today is he who gives out popcorn while taking over natural resources, processing systems and countries that hire themselves out to the highest bidder.
Social awareness has grown numb, entertained by a perfor- mance, an amusing television show that builds appeal and audience. It is precisely this entertainment mechanism which weaves the fundamental manipulation, favouring habits which cause us to be careless. A disguise full of appeal that makes the salesman a deceitful spirit, as his power will only be visible when
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