One of the major problems in contemporary society is to be able to regain the ability to dialogue between cultures and various sentiments. In this sense one can speak of different sensitivities from multiculturalism to interculturalism. I would prefer the latter term to that of 'acculturation' because it distinguishes better while comparing different situations, avoiding the risk of 'syncretism', i.e. the extinction of cultural diversity, and 'fundamentalism', which is the negation of the comparison.
For me, it is not the universe to make sense of man, but just the reverse. Thus, a purely natural horizon is not needed to develop a humanistic and cultural reflection, because the human condition and the cultural dimension raises many more complex issues concerning 'conscience', 'knowledge', 'freedom', 'responsibility', and the meaning of value of human experience.
It seems to me that the great legacy of civic, cultural and spiritual past is hindered or ignored; there are many other pressing issues, precisely those of efficiency, the logic of the market, consumption, productivity. And so you end up exchanging wisdom for superficiality, with the theories of a sophisticated technique sometimes amoral and inhuman and on occasion making a confusion between the doctrine of theory and practice with a superficial information. True knowledge, in fact, combines data in its deep meaning, unlike what happens today: "A smattering of all, a knowledge of nothing", to quote Charles Dickens.
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, trembling for the future. We are always suspended between nostalgia for the past and the uncertainty of memory and a future full of unknowns. The present time is usually the 'place' where men complain for their inability to accept their nature. Therefore, it happens that we recriminate for the past because now it is lost, or we repent for having idealized it. Moreover, the present time is a source of complaints just because the unknown future frightens us.
I'd like to ask your opinion.
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