O mundo pós moderno e o mal estar na civilização

one addict of Facebook uh confided in me not confided he actually boasted to me that he made 500 friends in one day my reply was that I live 86 years but I can't I don't have 500 friends I didn't manage to do it so presumably when he says friend and I say friend we don't mean the same thing it's different kind of friend um I I never heard when I was young the counil of network I heard about uh human bonds I heard about communities um this sort of thing but not Network what is the

difference between community and network community precedes you you are born into a community on the other hand we have Network what is Network unik Community Network is made and maintained uh kept Alive by two different activities one is connecting and the other is disconnecting and I think that attractiveness of the new type of friendship Facebook type of friendship I call it uh it's precisely in that that is so easy to easy to disconnect it is easy to connect to make friend but the greatest attraction is facility of disconnecting just imagine if you have not online

friendship not online connection not online online sharing but offline connection real connection face to face body to body you know eye to eye then breaking relationship is always very traumatic event you have to find excuses you have to explain uh you have to lie very often and even then you are you don't feel safe because the partner would say well you have no right you are swine you are pig you are whatever over and so on uh it's difficult but on internet is so easy you just press delete and that's it instead of 500 friends

you have 499 but it is only a temporary irritant because tomorrow we will have another 500 um that is that undermines human bondes human bonds are a mixture of blessing and a curse blessing because is really tremendously pleasurable and tremendously satisfying to have another partner on whom you can rely and do something for him or for her it's uh something uh it's some kind of experience which is unavailable to the Facebook friend ship so it's a blessing and I think that very many young people don't even are they are not even aware what they lost

because they never experienced this sort of situation um on the other hand it is Curse because once you enter the bond you expect to stay there forever you swear you take an oath you take an oath till will death do us part right forever but what does it mean it does mean that uh you morgage your future perhaps tomorrow or the next or next month or next year uh there will be new opportunities now unheard of you you can't predict them and you won't be able to pick this new opportunities because you will be tied

by your old commitments all the obligations so it's in a very ambivalent situation and hence the Curious phenomenon of this person solitary person in a crowd of solitaries right we are all in solitude and in a crowd in the same time that there are two essential values which are absolutely indispens responsible for a satisfactory satisfying rewarding relatively happy life one is security the other is freedom you can't be happy you can't have a decent dignified human life in the absence of one of them right uh security without freedom is slavery uh freedom without security is

complete chaos inability to do anything plan anything even dream about anything so you need both the trouble however is that no one yet in history and in on the planet found the golden formula the you know uh the the perfect mixture of uh security and Freedom each time you get more security you surrender a bit of your freedom there's no other way each time you get a bit more freedom you surrender part of your security so you gain something and you lose something uh 70 odd years ago Zigman Freud publish this uh famous and tremendously

profound and influential book called uh civilization and its discontent he said that Civilization is always an exchange a tradeoff as you put it tradeoff you give some uh something of one value in order to get something of the other value and he said he wrote it in 1920s and at that time he said that our problem the their problem of the old generation was that they surrendered too much freedom for the sake of security my deep conviction is that if Freud was giving this interview of me at the moment uh he would probably repeat that

every civilization is an exchange a tradeo but his diagnosis will be exactly opposite that our troubles come today from the fact that we have surrendered too much of our security for the sake of more freedom that's a dma I think that I sense already some prodromal signs that the pendulum is beginning to move back towards more security social State comes again into into public favors people dream about it you know they want stronger powers and uh more stability a little bit more stability it's very beginning I'm not saying that we are already on the way

but there are signs that that is happening and we so my conclusions are twofold one we will never find the perfect solution of the Dilemma between security and freedom there always will be too much of one and too little of the other right and the second that we will never stop looking for such a golden me in