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How they teach us not thinkBy ubo Blaha

In late June 2009 in Bratislava, the old building I of the National Council for the third time the prizeawarded the President the National Council for the Development of Culture and Humanities Education.The ceremony took place in a dignified environment for the participation of distinguished guests. Butquite outside interest Slovak media. What symptomatic! Price President SR - like most other events todraw attention to the actual personalities of our cultural lives - most of the media in Slovakia is not

worth it to inform the public about it. However, this price has no political undertones, here are thereforeto draw attention to people who, unfortunately, a Slovak company sees every day on television screens,but who, unlike hastily fermented celebrities deserve respect and esteem.Why can the media ignorethese precious people and are even willing to write a short Story Theme that prize President SR? This isperhaps the overall social climate, where the preferred third class entertainers from real artists. Culturethat would elevate people that we would actually cultivated and enriched, is still less. Is it still less inproportion to what the "culture" understood commercial television and the media. I am not saying thatonce priceless works were created as a treadmill. Far from it. But people have recently been able todistinguish what is and what is culture - what is and what is not art. Once in the Middle Ages grooms

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the concept categories and patterns. The ultimate social order has become empty and vague rationaleefficiency. People turned to individuals whose primary objective is to "work best", to adapt to themarket to behave, flexibly, purposefully and opportunistically. One word - to act as robots. As ominousas Herbert Marcuse: "We live and die rational and productive." It is worrying that the value to theoverall spiritual emptines contribute significant shares media.They now minimize the scope for thesession, which would offer a meaningful discussion, original contributions nontendency views, it

stands for, what is said - thinking. Even if you accidentally came across the television program, whichoffers a deeper controversy and information leading to the essence of things, usually happens sometimearound midnight, when most people have long been asleep. Program structure of our televisionsymbolizes what is happening in society. Thinking removed to the latest night hours, not to mentionthat we pay approximately two watches per week. As if we are ashamed of that, too. The truth is NoamChomsky, who argues that sense the media is "to make people follow the national football league, to beinterested in the mother, the kid was born with six heads, or anything else, what they underplay. Allwith the sole aim - to achieve a state in which it is virtually impossible to think, impossible to think.Ifthe viewer is in the media discover some discussion on important issues, the moderator usually reducedto 15 seconds time limit within which the polemicists fit their own view of the serious social problems.And it now says "thinking", it now says the social debate. Finally, we are forced to take a game inwhich the boundaries of social debate down people who do not even know it all not only on socialissues, but who often have not even completed high school. It is significant that in today's society, themedia asked me about my opinions of recognized scholars or philosophers, but rather actors, athletesand TV presenters. This is, unfortunately, 'authority and celebrity "today's world!Because spiritualvacuum, which describes the obligation of public officials, to people at every available opportunityreminded that there is still a real art, a real culture, real thinking and that there is still a differencebetween entertainers on television and real artists, the difference between "halfbulevard Psak andwriters. Perhaps the time has come that we have a culture freed from the domination of money andconsumerism. Perhaps it is time that our attention turned back to the real authority. Many philosophers,including Richard Rorty or Foucault Michael, agree that "shock is needed, because our will and ourimaginations are so limited social integration, which we got, that he even can not imagine thealternative society in which we live" .

Ako nas odnaucaju mysliet

Koncom jna 2009 v Bratislave, v budove I starej Nrodnej rady, po tret raz udeovali Cenu PredseduNrodnej rady SR za rozvoj kultry I humanitnho vzdelvania. Odovzdvanie cien sa udialo vdstojnom prostred za asti vznamnch host. Lene aj celkom mimo zujmu slovenskch mdi.Ak symptomatick! Cena predsedu NR SR - rovnako ako vina podujat, ktor maj upriamipozornos na skuton osobnosti nho kultrneho ivota - vine mdi na Slovensku nestoj za to,aby o nej verejnos informovali.

Pritom nem tto cena nijak politick podtn, je tu predovetkm preto, aby upozornila na ud,ktorch ia slovensk spolonos nevid kad de na televznych obrazovkch, ale ktor si na rozdielod narchlo vykvasench celebrt repekt a ctu zaslia. Preo je mon, e mdi tchto vzcnychud ignoruj a nie s ochotn napsa ani len krtku noticku o tom, e zskali Cenu predsedu NR SR?

Dvodom je azda celkov spoloensk klma, ke sa uprednostuj treotriedni zabvai predskutonmi umelcami. Kultry, ktor by ud pozdvihovala, ktor by ns kultivovala a skutoneobohacovala, je stle menej. Je jej stle menej v pomere k tomu, o ako "kultru" chpu komerntelevzie a mdi. Netvrdm, e kedysi vzcne diela vznikali ako na beiacom pse. Zaleka nie. Ale

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udia ete nedvno vedeli rozli, o je a o nie je kultra - o je a o nie je umenie. Ke sa vstredoveku opili paholci v krme a vrieskali spolu opileck piesne, nikto sa nikoho neusilovalpresvedi, e produkuj kultru. Dnes zanam ma pocit, e medzi "kultru" a "zbavu" niektopostavil znamienko rovnosti a u nevedia rozli skuton kultru od oubiznisu.

V udskch dejinch existovali dva svety - svet vysokej kultry a svet udovej zbavy. Dnes sa vakudovej zbavy zmocnil komern priemysel a usiluje sa ju uom predstavova ako kultru a umenie.

A to problm, s ktorm sa neme zmieri. Nememe dopusti, aby sa stieral rozdiel medzi krmou adivadlom.

Aby som parafrzoval americkho filozofa Daniela Blla, masov spolonos dnes neiada kultru iumenie, ale obyajn a bohapust zbavu. T im dnes ponka tzv. zbavn priemysel, ktor sa na"kultru" iba hr, no pritom vytvra len banlne zbavn produkty uren na przdny konzum.Jednoducho, pozriete si ou, dvakrt sa obzriete a u ste aj zabudli, preo a kvli omu ste tam vlastne iprili. iaden pocit v srdci, ni, o by v oslovilo, tob povznieslo, ni trval, ni hlbok - ibasugestvne duchovn przdno. Je to podobn akoby nm v uiach stle znel onen monotnny piskavtn, ktor poznme z nemocninch prstrojov, a ktor signalizuje, e srdce prestalo bi - e daktopravej zomrel. To je dnen svet oubiznisu, ktor v ns zanechva duchovn sp, iba otravnmonotnnos. Najsmutnejie je, e dnes sa tto duchovn przdnota predstavuje verejnosti ako osisamozrejm a prirodzen. Akoby sa niekto snail spnok v kme vydva za kultrnyivot...

Pravidl oubiznisu s jasn, pobavi davy akmkovek spsobom. A pritom veselo predstiera, ekad banalita spa nroky, ktor kladieme na vysok kultru. Daniel Bell dodva, e tradinmorlku "dobra" dnes nahrdza morlka "zbavy". Tradin morlka dobra obmedzovala vonpriechod pudov a okamitch elan, no morlka "zbavy" vel jedin: zabva sa! Znie to na prvpohad dobre, ale realita je in. Dnes plat, e ak sa lovek nhodou nezabva, akoby u to bol dvodna zamyslenie: "o sa to so mnou deje?" Zachytili sme sa sami do pasce totlneho hedonizmu, ktor jenatoko sugestvny, e sa ctime by vinn, ak sa o i len chvku nezabvame. Zatia o v tradinomsvete pocit viny vzbudzovalo uspokojenie zakzanch tob, dnes udia trpia nzkym sebavedomm

vtedy, ak sa nedoku dobre zabva. Prkaz da znie: zabvajme sa hoci aj na trivilnostiach apredstierajme, e vetko to, o vidme, si zasli pomenovanie "kultra".

Duchovnej przdnoty je, zd sa, v spolonosti oraz viac a o je horie, duchovn przdnota sapremiea na ivotn tl, ktor propaguj nae celebrity a mdi. panielsky filozof Ortega Gassetnapsal, e k zkladnm rtm modernho loveka patr povrchnos a przdny hedonizmus. PodaGasseta sa, ia, strednm zujmom ivota pre ud stva "hra a port, kult tela, hygienick reim astarostlivos o krsu odevu, nedostatok romantizmu v styku so enou; styk s intelektulom len-tak prezbavu, ale % podstate necta k nemu at". To je dnen ivotn tl: povrchnos, metrosexualita,narcizmus a necta k druhm. No najhorie je, e lovek, ktor sa poddva takmuto ivotnmu tlu,ete sm seba povauje za "kultrneho loveka"!

O om pem, neplat iba pre kultru, ale aj pre vzdelanie. Mnoh udia si myslia, e by vzdelanm arozhadenm lovekom je msi, o zskaj tanm dennej tlae a prleitostnm surfovanm pointernete. Je tragdiou modernej doby, e slova "tvorivos" sa zmocnila informatika, komernpropagcia, reklama i oubiznis. Naopak, filozofia a humanitn vedy sa predstavuj ako preitok, akoosi nepodstatn, ako odsden na znik. Komern sily chc nezvisl a tvoriv myslenie dosta napln okraj spolonosti. Ako vtipne kontatuje franczsky filozof Gilles Deleuze: "Pred tmito silamisa filozofia cti malaga osamoten, no keby mala umrie, aspo to bude od smiechu."

Je smutnm svedectvom doby, e udia prestali ma zujem o nadasov otzky, prestali ta knihy,ktor maj viac ne 150 strn, prestala ich zaujma filozofia, prestali sa zama nad podstatou

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