When we hear
or read some qualification as “slow”, we can think: “why slow in the digital
era?” In after-postmodern times this question is “about time” to be focused… And
it is about time that we are talking.
In Postmodern
era we thought that life was becoming faster and faster and that this
acceleration was good. Well, if someone is thinking about “go to Mars” maybe it
still sounds wright… or even in some circumstances as digital communication,
emergency care, etc.
But we are
talking about a “state of mind”. The “slow state of mind” does not mean to be
slow in everything. You can eat in a good restaurant in a “fast way”, or you
can be in a “fast food” place, but in a “slow state of mind”.
In a similar
way, someone can work in an Emergency Room with a “slow state of mind”, and
vice-versa in another condition.
So, a “slow state
of mind” means to have a peaceful mind, even when we are in a turmoil.
So, we have a
“inner time” and an “outer time”. Inner and outer time can influence each other,
but it is not absolute, although it can be a tool to do a kind of “in and out
discipline”.
The Slow Movement
is a way to bring balance to our use of time and of “our times”.
In
after-postmodern era, to use the time well is not just about acceleration, but
also about a “humanized time” open to the Complex Thinking and the complexity
of life.
