After reading the emotional comments and alarmed the public to some of my article on the cancer risks and toxicological effects of this or that food, both well as secondary (for example, ' last on infusions of fennel seeds, which contain estragole carcinogen such as basil), I almost regret writing it! But then, nearly almost right the pessimist-realist Ghiselli INRAN - the very organization that conducted the study and issued the statement on the risks of those teas - when he says that I reveal to ordinary people too many things that should be reserved for scientific researchers, because we know that people in Italy are alarming, does not understand, take whistles for flasks, "does not know how to frame and evaluate the risk. Or, once you learned what good is a food, it goes to buy dall'erborista the corresponding supplement, little use if not actually harmful, rather than taking it through food. I believe that class distinction exists. People in Italy, more than elsewhere, is now divided into two classes: the very few super-experts in some branch, who live intellectually separated from the crowd, and always communicate only among themselves, and are unable to talk to the lady clerk or Hairdressing, rather they are skeptical or pessimistic about the chance to learn something useful and detailed man in the street, and the overwhelming majority, almost all people, including graduates, who lives in a passive and uncritical, suffering from the decisions - censored and modulated so clever and wise - an expert in every branch. And for heaven's sake, no pretense or presumption: we're all in this second category. Because even a super-expert will be ignorant and submissive in matters which are not experienced in front of another's specialized knowledge and reticent. Not to mention the closed circles of finance or politics (and the difficulty for some "experts" to pierce the screen of official statements, confidential, but false, or propaganda).
short, we are the usual complaints about mass society. The difference is that in Italy, for centuries the basis of ignorance today rationalized in general skepticism, the situation is more serious. No one that deepens or inform in a rational way, unless it is to buy the latest iPod or a mobile phone or the fourth article of clothing brand.
is almost suspect that the average Italian, "for not knowing how to read or write, living now only using stomach, anal sphincter and maybe, rarely, sexual organ. He does not understand anything. He never understood anything about what goes around, scientific or not. Even graduates who have studiacchiato know that minimum, but no windows or intelligent link to the outside. No one to investigate "between" cultures, for example. Ie, devotes itself to know that "indirectly". And this gap between the few scholars and the mass non è cosa di oggi, ma dura dall’inizio dell’èra della scienza e della tecnologia.
Oggi, in tempi di democrazia conclamata e solo rituale, c’è un divario incolmabile tra chi sta in alto e chi sta in basso. E per "alto" davvero si intende il sapere, la cultura, la scienza. Non il cosiddetto Potere politico, tutto in mano ad ignoranti della più bell'acqua.
Si è persa la trasversalità del gusto, perfino. Il duomo di Orvieto piaceva a tutti quando fu costruito, dall’intellettuale al garzone di bottega. Le opere di Giotto mettevano d’accordo sapienti e popolino. E così la Gioconda. Oggi non è più vero: l’umanità vive in corridoi paralleli, incomunicabili tra them, those - very few - who knows - and many (all) who do not know, and do not want to know. Contemporary art, the infamous "facilities", just like critics and gallery owners, but not to the general audience. Because art has now moved away from man.
And so it is for scientific knowledge. Science has come to nanotechnology and space satellites, but the man is still like a bit 'slow, dull, conservative, full of "belief", "personal views", bias, prejudices and superstitions, which was in roads at the time of Plato. No one knows each other or themselves, ignore all psychology. What we need to know that the Earth is round? It may well be flat for the man in the street today. So, for what it is to him ... he
But how, "with everything we know today?
Indeed, precisely for that. From astronomy to gossip, from sports to the latest diet phenomenon, the scientific paper with lots of references to the pamphlet of a fanatic who has printed the book himself, by the nonsense of the Internet to the sales brochure, the man of He brings the news that comes on the same plane. E 'Obama elected in the United States, falls or Mubarak in Egypt? (True). Be 'is a given among many, a news that goes on TV news or overlap of the web, such as "the fruit should be eaten between meals" (false), or water must always be "mineral" and "low residue fixed" (false). On a social fabric ignorant and degraded the excess of news has catastrophic effects, grotesque or paradoxical.
Then my grandmother was right when he said peasant: it is better not to know all this education is bad for your head? If we heed the man in the street, it would seem so.
So it seems that modern man does not know the role and dangers of the man in the world, nor what the overall risk of life, and food in particular. All this, for the usual causes are well known, but many do not remember ever: cultural environment, anti-scientific to historical reasons, political and social freedom as a recent State of the Church, Bourbon, dictatorships, middle-class of peasant origin, contempt for culture and science, provincial attitude, a tendency to easy profits of shopkeepers, low readings of newspapers, magazines and books of essays, poor study (and, if anything at all study points, law or economics, and no science).
Science gives rise to fears in Italy, the only advanced country in the West struggle between conservation and reaction. Just think of medieval and obscurantist attitude toward stem cell research that could cure many diseases without damaging in any way the man. Not at all, "no" in principle, no reason. After all, science was and is "the devil" for the Church. And so it was for the peasants, that is for everyone, given the ignorance of the Italian and the absence of a true middle class. When the Pope returned from exile, Rome is lit by oil lamps at the initiative of the French Government, and now the Pope and Curia decided to switch off street lighting, as the work of the devil. God has given us the darkness and the darkness we must keep. For seculorum saecula. The same dullness on culture: the priests repeat the catechism kids flatly not to read the books (see the sonnets in Roman dialect GGBelli). That's why the Italians of today - and Italy is industrially 7.a world power - still wary of science, and even less suspicious absence of a "mentality" of science are unable to interpret, evaluate scientific news, indeed any information.
Then, there is also another reason. People are insecure and inadequate in the grip of neurosis to the rhythms of existence imposed by civilization. Former farmers urbanized by a few generations have not yet set in the city subways. We SUV, GPS, mobile phone, iPod and play-station, but the same mind when aravamo fields behind the horse and lived to the rhythm of the sun. What to do? To quench this existential neurosis we security. And science, with its constant discoveries in zig-zag, from insecurity to those who have not ever happen.
The fact is that life for man is not sure, but full of risks. The man himself is the result of some far away "error" genetic, our existence is a miracle of Chance. And in fact all of our "food" are full of anti-nutritional or toxic substances. Yet no breath, indeed, everyone eats too uncritically. The only people consider the risks that the technology or ultra-comfortable or are mentioned in a newspaper or a blog. For example, consider highly risky to drive a car without chains or snow tires on a mountain road in winter. But then in that car we all aspire, in addition to cigarette smoke for passengers, even the exhaust fumes of the car ahead of us or alongside us. Mothers bring in a wheelchair (at ground level, where pollutants are concentrated gas) their baby, through the traffic. Many, many women smoke. Everyone, then, let us constantly and without flinching through the X-ray banks (anti-robbery), shops (anti-theft) and radiologists (anti-sickness). About how many unnecessary X-rays! Everyone, especially women so sensitive to the slightest poison, is filled with drugs at the slightest cold, pain in joints or headache. Many even between Milan and Bologna traveling by air (bombarded without protection from gamma radiation of space). Almost all (especially in Central Italy) live in houses of tufa, natural material with a high risk. Not to mention that too many have radon in your apartment (if not too windy), natural gas with a high risk that rises up from the cellars or foundations. Many people (even if it is passed) the radioactive alarm clock that you see in the dark, right next to the head, during 8 hours at night, and some light to the clock pulse, that twenty years ago was cool. And those fries in the kitchen as I could (think of the cook or the woman's house once), or is always near the hearth to enjoy the warm, pretending to fix the wood or coal, is high risk. And all in rotisserie eat delicious fried foods. The most lively at the weekend cook the roast on a spit, or sausages directly over the flame, or worse on the grill of the barbecue in the garden (they learned from American TV show ...). We were all abstainers, but today those who do not drink gallons of hard liquor or beer? And who does not taste good bruschetta (bread, blackened by fire), the steak streaked on the plate, bread and pizza crust charred? Everyone, that is, they bought up for decades of risky heterocyclic amines, benzo (a) pyrene, quinoxaline, pyridine, etc.. Snobs exotic like soy sauce or miso, and only vegetarians avoid meats and preserved in salt (N-nitroso amine and radical). Only those who are on a diet controlled or naturists ultras are taken away from foods rich in saturated fats, excess sugars, from refined starch and the fiber-free foods that have high glycemic index (high-risk cardio-vascular, diabetic and metabolic overweight). And as a male, let's face it, does not like cheese? (Hypertensive amines such as tyramine, and saturated fats in abundance). And of course, everyone wants good bread "for once", but baked in a wood, banned all over Europe except in Italy (where even the oven walls and floor bricks are impregnated with benzo (a) pyrene and other hydrocarbons policiclici aromatici. Tutti cancerogeni. E già, ecco perché è saporito. Tutti poi, soprattutto le donne, sono sedentari (non fate finta di non capire: stanno sempre seduti), e tranne pochi fissati runners o joggers presi in giro da tutti, nessuno fa movimento fisico intenso o anche medio per 1 ora al giorno. Dunque, alto rischio di malattie di ogni genere. E così via...
E poi ci si preoccupa per un infuso di finocchio.
Come se il resto della nostra vita, organizzato da noi stessi, e la stessa Natura, fosse perfetto, sicuro, fatto apposta per l'Uomo...
Balle, favole per bambini delle elementari. Tutto è rischio, invece. La nostra vita è l'attività più rischiosa invented by nature. And it's absurd to worry about a single (small or large) risk among thousands, indeed, seems almost an excuse, an excuse for hypocritical. The real risk is the sum of all the risks of thousands of daily life, multiplied by the days, months, years of our lives ... This is the risk that we must take into account. They call it unbearable with the usual euphemism "quality of life." And so our life, especially now that we begin to know something after millennia of ignorance, threatens to become (indeed, it already is) a frantic race to prevent evil, neurotic, reduce risks, to seek every hour, every minute of our life, the right behavior, right or ilcibo, antioxidant right that this or that should neutralize free radical, this or that "poison", or that this bacterium. What a terrible life
life! And to think that the (fake, hypocritical) "defense of life" is there any politician in blue or black cassock and red bell us, makes us career. And speaking of "religionari" (as Bertrand Russell called them) who prate of life given by God "Man," food of Man "and" Eden "or garden land. Indeed, dear hypocritical moralists that you take it with modern-day liberals and libertines, yesterday was certainly worse in terms of risk. Risk of today, then ignored, even a risk were added real newborn to die of infection, dying in childbirth, dying of gangrene or blood poisoning a trivial wound, he died of diarrhea or tuberculosis, dying of hunger.
So, be satisfied, or Humans!
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IMAGE . Adam and Eve, the legendary Man archetypes ignorant but happy, in a newborn proto-classless society. Not at all, they too were kept in the dark by the Supreme Holder scientific news ...
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JAZZ . The great American jazz critics have always praised the composition of Sonny Rollins Blue Seven, to make them the subject of a famous essay critical musicologist Gunther Schuller, who inaugurated the jazz critical essays. Here is the Blue Seven on YouTube, with the accompanying photo of Rollins.
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