This contracted, time to listen

Ricardo Correa de Sa e Benevides

Professor of Gregorian Chant. Master and PhD in Communication and Culture Program at the Graduate School of Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Introitus

Center hectic, Dublin, people circulate without looking around, attention put into their streamers prostheses, functional autistic behavior. In contrast, the silent observation of the setting sun in the minutes before Vespers.

Situations where a rhythm, now rare, and their silence are necessary, whether as presentification and preserving at least a calm face to streamers urban excesses, whether as constituting an admiration due to the beauty of nature and above all in preparation for communion with God in personal and collective prayer.

All are held in an unusual time, even "timeless" today saturated that can be observed people who believe depend on their phones, "connecting" the cost of communication loss, taking over an empty selfie, feverishly interacting with any information without reflection, calculating and simulating. In this hectic time, it engages the world in a network that it reduces the inherent spectacle, calculation arena or mere information.

Time stand out common elements: the euphoria in which underlies a chronic concern, manifested in the inability to stop, see and hear, and the permanent fear of loss that drives and justifies the incessant use of online tools to sumulação

In this became this contemporary? At what point we attorney to portable medias and how they change our cognitive process, our lives and inner peace? However, before him realize, fleeting or constatemente, the permanence of something that insists that the dominant experience is no solution, hope, much less the "quality of life" as envisioned in the best of worlds.

This text comes from hearing this permanent voice.