Yesterday, at dawn, I entered Listindiario.com and I found the reflection biweekly that Monsignor Ramón Benito de la Rosa and Carpio publishes as an evangelizing action, to align the people of God that we are in the faith that makes us live the love of God as we love our neighbor.
Although I always read your short writings, yesterday’s was particularly important to me. The intellectuals We and artists have been suffering pain from the wounds caused by witnessing that art “called to ennoble ends up degrading” our people, youth and ourselves.
I quote the words of Monsignor de la Rosa y Carpio.
There are people who don’t give a damn about that.
Monsignor, which is useful for forgiveness, not guilt; neither do we. Know that with the rod we measure we will be measured. Also, only at the doors of forgiveness are the paths born by which those who have erred before God and their fellow men can return to their faith and be reborn for good.
National art and culture could not be more degrading. And hence my regret and that of many.
Raised in the condition of absolute anomie in the public function and institution in this regard, culture and the arts lose that humanizing, transcendent essence that, since its origin and the Middle Ages, its cultists imprinted on it, from the Agora to the monasteries.
Always, art and culture have educated their people about heroism, justice and greatness. Even amusing them.
While he condemned the arrogance of the powerful (Sophocles: “Oedipus the King”; Shakespeare; “Hamlet”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “King Lear”), he praised heroes and scientists (Odysseus) who guaranteed collective and State cohesion and survival (Homer: “The Iliad”, “The Odyssey”), celebrating justice, human equality and recognizing the best and the best.
Although Aristotle postulated comedy as a dramatic-public way of confronting children with their “vices,” revealing the absurdity of certain personal, collective or public actions—Aristophanes: “Lysistrata,” “The Knights,” “The Birds”—politics injected him with partialism and intolerance: he used it to publicly “mock” Socrates (“The Clouds”); He also demanded justice, returning from the underworld to the good poet that his colleague Euripides had sent to the underworld: “The Frogs.”
Culture and art are and have been spaces of debate; They express the improbable and deep convictions, beliefs and aspirations of people, from the world and way in which they live; with expressive resources determined by a triad: talent, opportunities and socioeconomic-educational conditions.
Monsignor, the degrading condition that you appreciate in the arts results from the extreme degree that the social and human disaster is reaching in our society, in the sight of public and private managers: insensitive, with disconcerting materialism and hedonism, never seen before.
How many officials support culture and the arts? How many in the private sector?
Apart from Banco Popular and a few others, you will find very, very few.
In societies where the middle and upper classes prefer humanizing cultural devices for fun, tragedies like those at the disco can hardly occur. They would prefer symphonic music, arts and literature!
When God provides and favors, transcendent personal development must be prioritized!
