light Life
The crisis ends with an age focused on the property and the collection, obsessed with buying apartments and earn college degrees. New technologies teach us to live in lightness and this
JORDI SOLER
That character that in the middle of the street or highway, ask us how you can get to this site, is in danger of extinction. The GPS, with its color screen, your verbal instructions and pinpoint accuracy, begins to make this character in a historical piece, the caliber of the other, which for over a century lit with a pole, one by one, streetlights the street.
The bank lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining and it takes it away when it starts raining.
life's efforts can evaporate with a maneuver of the four fat Cohiba
That character will be as rare as the telephone booth, which has been ravaged by the phone, and as CDs, these objects tedious, taking up too much room and demand that their own look on a shelf, remove the disc from its case, the place in the player tray and then give a button successive times until the song you want to hear. A nuisance is now solved by moving a sensor with the thumb. Life goes at a breakneck speed, if you hear a song you like you can buy it immediately by the computer, and the same goes for books. Just a few minutes to have almost any movie, and in a minute we can be looking at the screen of our computer, which is in Barcelona, \u200b\u200ba papyrus that is physically located in the British Museum in London, or, if preferred, at that very minute we bought on the hydraulic hammer, a German shepherd or a piano. The same happens to the information, which will speed through the network, the daily paper sold in the morning, and has little to do, two hours later, with its Internet version, and at the end of the day and is radically different. In all these examples, what prevails is the speed, but also the way: no longer need to have a wall full of shelves with records, or books, or DVD, to own a large collection of music, a huge library or a dazzling film library, everything fits into a small electronic pileup can you throw in your pocket. And those tons of information that run through the network down, with an amazing lightness, the screen of your mobile phone, another pileup extremely lightweight. This change of direction to the light, which have been implementing new technologies, is beginning to have tangible consequences that have affected the daily, the film industry, music and publishing, the crisis afflicting these industries is not a transient phenomenon is the end of an era or the beginning of the next, and beyond this crisis begins to operate a change, much deeper, which has already begun to the world upside down. The new millionaires are 20 year old boys invent things on the Net is a sign that tells us how much things have changed. Recourse to cliché, which is a simple to illustrate: the pompous millionaire dress expensive suit, which goes into a car and driver stern, began to be substituted by sweats and Adidas boy coming to his office by bike, the lightweight second is more in line with the new millennium that the heavy paraphernalia carried by the first. The global economic crisis, which was especially fond of Spain, and the speed and lightness, which have introduced new technologies in our life are elements of the story. The crisis, of course, was caused by the four fat, among Cohiba Cohiba, have the world's economy, but its effects on the normal citizen's life are the foundation of the future, the foundation stone of the immediate future, an essential part of this enormous change of course which gave the ship full of fools called Humanity. Frame the issue from the perspective of real estate. Until recently, what was expected of a productive adult were the achievements that had gotten stale, or at least tried to get, their parents and grandparents have a home and savings in the bank, besides being a respectable person and marry a woman of good family to raise beautiful children and so forth. In Spain, living in a rented house equivalent, socially, to throw away money, it seemed crazy because every bank offers a loan to buy it from doing. At the not so distant Jauja illusory period where almost anyone could own your home, the woman who helped us put in order the chaos that filled our apartment for rent, Ecuador was a lovely lady was being paid, through a mortgage, your own flat. I put this lady as an example because I think your economic maneuver perfectly illustrates the situation: living in a rented apartment much bigger, and paying less money per month, the floor which moved, which was smaller and had a mortgage I would have to drag 40 years, if all went well. The reason for this blunder was that the floor was his, was smaller, more expensive, ugly and was worse position than the flat he rented, but was hers. If something is yours in 40 years, is it yours? The national hysteria homeownership, coupled with the ease with which the banks granted mortgages as well as complicate this global crisis, now begins to look like the end of an era, an era based on the possession and collection , possession of property, machinery, objects and the collection of money, the savings promised a smooth future economic. Now that the economic crisis has taught us how helpless we are and that new technologies are beginning to point the way to the new world, it's time to start getting rid of the mental burden that we inherited from the owners of the Middle Ages, and embrace life light, levity which will ride from now on. Institutions, say, classical, start making water filled to the graduate college, which loads the heavy baggage it has acquired through years of traditional education, the boy stands ready with a computer and wit, two tools really light , gets a worldwide success in one of the places in cyberspace. The crisis has raised doubts about the value of savings and mortgage the house with two efforts in which you invest your whole life and, as has been amply demonstrated, may evaporate with the next move of the four fat of the Cohiba. It has also been questioned as banking institutions, which is known lends you an umbrella when the sun shines and asks you to give it back when it starts raining, or the State, an institution incapable of containing the crisis not responsible for their citizens who have been victims of such disability, or institutions like the Church, whose values \u200b\u200bare the antithesis of light life: the new generations do not believe in God, because they can not find it on Google. The great lesson This crisis has made us aware of our weakness, has taught us that material possessions and the collection are items from another era and that the idea of \u200b\u200bhome ownership is really the opposite of life, which is properly hire . Now what is imposed is to imagine a different world, everything has changed now and there is no choice: follow the road that mark the new technologies, hire live to go to another city or country where appropriate, to enjoy the money instead of saving it and live life in present time, live today for tomorrow because living is a thing of yesterday.
Jordi Soler is a writer. His latest book is The Party oso (Mondadori).
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