“Slow food”, “Slow Medicine”, etc. It is all “about time”.

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.