Comenzaré diciendo algo controvertido y es que en realidad la filosofía no sirve para nada. La utilidad de la filosofía es bastante puesta en duda y con razón. Sin embargo la filosofía tiene valor, es valiosa en si misma. Utilidad y valor no son la misma cosa, eso lo he aprendido estudiando Bitcoin. El ser humano es el único homínido que ha conseguido la dominación de su entorno y que ha logrado un avance técnico y científico difícil de obviar. No obstante, cuando nos damos una vuelta por las calles, el transporte publico, bibliotecas o centros comerciales, podemos percatarnos de que en la actualidad no somos los que dominamos los medios tecnologicos, sino que los medios tecnologicos nos dominan a nosotros. Una de las situaciones mas evidentes es el triunfo del celular sobre nuestra voluntad, el hackeo de nuestra atención y las redes sociales, no hay que ser un filosofo para comprender que estamos ante una crisis del pensamiento, nadie quiere reflexionar o pensar, peor aun, la actividad critica se puede interpretar como discursos o narrativa de odio
I will begin by saying something controversial, and that is that philosophy is actually useless. The usefulness of philosophy is often questioned, and rightly so. However, philosophy has value, it is valuable in itself. Utility and value are not the same thing, I have learned that by studying Bitcoin. The human being is the only hominid that has achieved the domination of its environment and has achieved a technical and scientific progress that is difficult to ignore. However, when we take a walk through the streets, public transport, libraries or shopping malls, we can realize that nowadays we are not the ones who dominate the technological means, but the technological means dominate us. One of the most evident situations is the triumph of the cell phone over our will, the hacking of our attention and social networks, you don't have to be a philosopher to understand that we are facing a crisis of thought, nobody wants to reflect or think, even worse, the critical activity can be interpreted as speeches or hate narrative.
Today more than ever, philosophy is necessary
En estos tiempos actuales, el ser humano prescinde cada vez mas aun de su potencial filosófico. Cuando me refiero a potencial filosófico, quiero referirme a cierta capacidad intelectual, al ejercicio de pensar, analizar, pensar las cuestiones realmente. Hoy casi no reflexionamos, somos mas viscerales y emocionales, no miramos hacia adentro, solo miramos el celular. Hubo intelectuales que se preocupaban por el avance tecnológico mientras que la gente no reflexionaba sobre eso, disponemos de altísima tecnología pero la verdad que nos sirve de muy poco, demasiados medios de comunicación y cada vez estamos mas aislados, es extraño. Es propio del ser humano usar su pensamiento, aunque muchas veces nuestras especulaciones no sean las mas correctas, pero es necesario tener sentido critico pues si no se han dado cuenta el mundo no está bien.
In these present times, the human being increasingly disregards even more of his philosophical potential. When I refer to philosophical potential, I mean a certain intellectual capacity, the exercise of thinking, analyzing, really thinking about issues. Today we hardly reflect, we are more visceral and emotional, we do not look inward, we only look at our cell phones. There were intellectuals who were concerned about technological progress while people did not reflect on it, we have very high technology but the truth is that it is of little use to us, too many means of communication and we are more and more isolated, it is strange. It is proper of the human being to use his thought, although many times our speculations are not the most correct, but it is necessary to have a critical sense because if you have not realized the world is not well.
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