Reflections

About the uprooting of capital from the productive

This uprooting of capital from all economically productive action for the benefit of pure speculative financialization we see it going on vaporous words such as “markets” or “foreign investments”. We are talking about financial cycles, not production cycles. Silicon Valley is an example of how the greatest fortunes can be created from unproductive speculation with “non-things” like data.

Nicolás Mavrakis

About Responsibility towards Others

I am aware that the idea of sacrifice is not very popular today. Almost no one has the desire to sacrifice himself for another person or for something (…). Either one lives the life of a consumer dependent on technological or material developments in general, blindly given over to supposed progress, or one finds one’s own inner responsibility, which is directed not only towards oneself, but also towards others.

Andrei Tarkovsky (quoted by Guillermo Saccomanno)

About that conflicts do not make us forget the latent tragedies of humanity

I hope that the emergence of conflicts will not make us lose sight of the latent tragedies of humanity, such as the catastrophe of inequalities, whereby most of the people who populate the earth experience unprecedented injustice, the shameful plague of hunger, and the calamity of climate change, a sign of the lack of care for our common home. Papa Francisco