When I was still in elementary school, philosophy crossed my path in the form of a history of philosophy book and a copy of Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes. Five decades later, that calling still calls me each day to find my best ideas in the minds and books of great thinkers, whet…
Blog posts March 2026
We have forgotten the future and remain stuck in the past
Years, centuries, and millennia pass, and it becomes clear that humanity has neither learned the lessons of the past nor grasped the opportunities of the future. Instead, we insist on returning to —or remaining in— an irrecoverable past, while narrowing the horizon of the future by forgetting (inten…
Now we live in what remains of the world
It has been said that soccer is the most important of the least important things in life. For that reason, soccer can sometimes teach us lessons about life. That happened to me recently when, after a match that Boca Juniors should have won but did not, a well-known sports journalist wrote, “This…
Two Unavoidable Questions: Where We Are and Where We Are Going
Recently I came across the following question, “Quo vadis, humanitas?” (“Where are you going, humanity?”), which appeared as the title of an article inviting readers to rethink the future of humanity from a philosophical, theological, and anthropological perspective—without delegating …
Cognitive transition or poor adaptation to the new future?
Recent experiences have led me to ask how it is possible that the more connected we are, the less connected we are with others in real life, and the more superficial and irrelevant our conversations become. Clearly, we are in a stage of cognitive transition in which the old forms of so…
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