—La sociedad industrial está condenada al progreso forzado a perpetuidad.
—Industrial society is condemned to forced perpetual progress.
It is the curse of the world we are living in today. I was waiting in the line at the bank (where people want human interaction) and got in a conversation with an older gentleman who was annoyed by the new electronic payment methods which are progress but don't seem an improvement on the old ways because they leave those left behind in a lurch.
—Hace doscientos años era lícito confiar en el futuro sin ser totalmente estúpido.
¿Hoy quién puede creer en las actuales profecías, puesto que somos el espléndido porvenir de ayer?
—Two hundred years ago it was permissible to trust in the future without being totally stupid.
But today, who can believe in the current prophecies, since we are yesterday’s splendid future?
I grew up in the 1970s. Fifty years later, it seems like I grew up in an almost golden age, though the seeds that would destroy the 2025 present were being sown.
As I have said, the NGD quote videos get more views, likes, and comments when I upload them to WeChat Channels, a Chinese video site, as opposed to when I upload them to YouTube. Some of my Chinese audience will ask me questions about the meanings of NGD aphorisms.or offer their own insights — that is what I would love to see on this blog. So come on, rare readers, let the interaction begin!
—En una soledad silenciosa sólo fructifica el alma capaz de vencer en las más públicas lides.
El débil pide estruendo.
—In silent solitude only the soul capable of conquering in the most public disputes bears fruit.The weakling begs for commotion.
Beautiful Thought.
—El paraíso no se esconde en nuestra opacidad
interna, sino en las terrazas y en los árboles de un
jardín ordenado, bajo la luz del mediodía.
—Paradise is hidden not in our inner opacity, but in
the terrace and trees of a well-tended garden beneath
the midday sun.
I also post these videos on Rumble
—Lo sensual es la presencia del valor en lo sensible.
—The sensual is the presence of a value in the
sensible.
What does NGD mean by this? To be crude, it is not the so-called sensuality of the modern ideas of sexuality. It is an intimacy, but of of St. Thomas Aquinas’ statement: “It must be that God is in all things most intimately” (Summa Theologiae, I, q. 8, art. 1).
—No rechazar, sino preferir.
—Not reject, but prefer.
—Envejecer con dignidad es tarea de todo instante. —To age with dignity is the task of every moment. Agree? Disagree? Please comment belo...
