The human being as a question

Nowadays we lived in a society formed by the technological rationality that does not leave space for the contemplation of beautiful and the search of the true thing, we are immersed in the middle of which the sociologists call the tecnoestructura or tecnosistema - built the framework for complex of State, Market and social mass media -, configurations these, that circumscribe to the human being like simple object of the state administration or like mere producer and consumer of merchandise, reducing its horizon to the limit of the borders of this tecnoestructura, that takes not to few experiences of anguish and weariness.

It is thus, which this surroundings become suffocating, when it does not know “the Metaphysical” dimension of the human being who arranges it to the encounter with the beauty, good and the true thing, in sum with the substantial being.

There is no space for the culture of the “serious questions” that make the human being so. The perspective and the interest are trims in the mere existencial superficiality, it does not concern “because” serious and the forceful one that gives sense to the life. The energies insist on maintaining the “good operation” of the system.

The “serious question” that is he himself human being no longer is so, now turned mere being without sense and absurd it is reduced to a simple piece of that totalitarian gear that is tecnosistema where it is annulled in his singularity.

Under this dense layer of the structural complexity of the present society is sleepy the deep desire of the heart to find a total sense to the life and to the reality, “the world of the spirit” is as narcotized with its fundamental questions and their search of meaning.

In last times the human being knew and could express this original desire understood like search of the truth and sense. Music, the architecture, the painting, the sculpture, the Literature, they have been you cause through which could show his eagerness search, being the philosophy the one that has assumed of particular way east movement. Before the glance went to the outer world, to the cosmos to discover the access to the Mystery, now the excessive autoproyección to the outside has induced sleep the opening to the sense. Now the access door to undertake the adventure of the sense seems to be the route of the interioridad, to see in the own soul the inner dynamisms that yearn for or appeal to a definitive answer that it gives sense to his whole human question. In sum, the exigencies and restlessness of the heart (understood this one as conscience or intimate center of the person) are the new route that is due to undertake to arrive at the total conscience of the own humanity.

And in this persistence he is comfortable to find to those who still maintains that “sensitivity spiritual” that them does not leave indifferent before the human question in its totality, which they cultivate that tension by the sense.

Although it is certain that the human being throughout the time has tried to discover and to inteligir the mystery of its being nowadays seems that this original and primigenia restlessness is relegated to the field of the perimídico, of the marginal thing, forgotten. But despite this phenomenon it is still observed and it found in many parts of the world people of the most varied cultures and conditions that maintain it lives the flame on the conscience in his search of itself and its total truth.

In this persistence I have the privilege of to have agreed with the artist Patricia Muñoz who with his art and works crystallizes to the conscience the own human condition in his mismidad, the human phenomenon in its centralidad.

Aldo Chávez

Lima, Peru 28 September 2006