I recently came across this quote by Argentinian philosopher Tomás Balmaceda that struck a deep chord:
“We struggle to sustain our attention, read a long text, tolerate the void. This time intolerance—the constant rush for information—erodes our capacity for reflection. Intelligence, in this con…
Book 12 of the Odyssey recounts Odysseus’ encounter with the Sirens—those dangerous creatures whose seductive songs lured sailors to a deadly fate. Following Circe’s advice, Odysseus prepared himself and his crew in such a way that, working together, they all escaped the trap unharmed.
Odys…
“Why does the bird sing?” said the Master. “Not because he has a statement, but because he has a song.” Anthony De Mello, The Song of the Bird
A recent article published in National Geographic describes a fascinating experiment in which experts from the University of Buenos Aires created …
I recently came across the story of American musician Sixto Rodríguez, who, despite having little success in his home country, spent decades unaware that he had become famous in South Africa—where, at the same time, people believed he had already passed away. It took the arrival of the internet and …
A few years ago, we decided to replace a couple of doors inside the house with sliding doors. We consulted someone who had helped us with other remodeling projects, and their response was, “That can’t be done.” As we later discovered, what this person should have said was, “I don’t know how to do it…
Goya: “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos” (Public domain)
There was a time—not so long ago—when every now and then a story would surface that was so unexpected, so distinct from the rest, that it invited the reader to pause, ponder, and perhaps even share it. Today, in an age when…
In these times when screens replace reality and social media profiles stand in for our identity—when every action is posted, and every experience is monetized—we slowly lose our connection to who we are and who we long to become.
By anchoring our identity in the number of “likes” we receive…
We live in a time when chaos and noise seem to cover every part of our lives — bad news, shallow opinions, constant crises, and rapid, disorienting change. In the middle of this whirlwind, it’s only natural to feel fear, confusion, frustration, or even resistance to anything that hints at "chang…
In the frenzied, fast-paced rhythm of today’s news cycle—what Walter Ong once described as “pumping data at high speed through information pipelines”—stories overlap and pile up without offering direction or purpose, and often without any meaningful context beyond novelty or entertainment. But t…
In a recent interview, Spanish philosopher Juan Carlos Ruiz stated, “Nobody teaches us how to ask questions.” He then expanded on this idea, explaining that we lack a “pedagogy of the question” and, as a consequence, we also lack an ethics of dialogue—a key element for connecting with the emergi…
I recently read an article that analyzes two trends: the number of older adults worldwide is increasing, and simultaneously, more and more people of all ages are feeling lonely. The confluence of these two trends means that social isolation among older adults is inevitable, according to a recent…
We live in a world of such rapid technological advancement that the landscape of reality around us changes long before we’re able to understand that change or adapt to the new reality. In this context, the challenge arises of analyzing whether new technologies are compatible with our human facul…
We don’t know where it happened, and it is not necessary to know it. Perhaps in a place belonging neither to the past nor the future. Perhaps in that timeless space where broken stories come together, not to be fixed, but to be mutually acknowledged.
Four people, each marked by their …
At the intersection of advanced technology and contemporary philosophy, a new narrative is unfolding—one that redefines our understanding of the universe and of ourselves.
Shelly Palmer’s recent reflections on the rapid advancement of AI-powered humanoid robots invite us to question our…
Change—whether superficial or a profound transformation—is one of the most perplexing paradoxes of human existence because it means both being and not being at the same time, ceasing to be in order to become, living in the "in-between" of the "no longer" and the "not yet."
We often see wi…
Over the past few weeks, an increasing number of people have been asking me—more frequently than usual, though not unexpectedly—what we can do in a world and society undergoing such deep, constant, and unconsulted changes that they literally disorient and even paralyze us. And they asked me, as …
Pervasive deceit is nothing new. Forty-five years ago, in 1980, cryptographer Gustavus Simmons introduced the concept to describe scenarios in which secure communication had to be established within a context of intentional, continuous, and widespread deception. In other words, our present reality.
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Exactly 170 years ago, American thinker and writer Henry David Thoreau complained about countries that focus on solving pressing problems with no intention of changing the way of thinking that led to the creation and perpetuation of those problems. Thoreau then coined an unpleasant but descriptive e…
Beyond what you know an immense world exists, but you cannot see it.
Throughout history, our understanding of the world has expanded in remarkable ways, but it has always been limited by what we have chosen to explore. Just as libraries house the collected knowledge of humanity, our personal “lib…
In the not-so-distant past, it was said that planting a tree (along with writing a book and having a child) was a clear sign of the stability and maturity of the person who had planted that tree because it indicated a long-term action without expecting anything in return. For this reason, numerous s…
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