educazione moderna

"Meno tocchi meglio stai"

(quote by una maestra di scuola elementare rivolgendosi a uno dei suoi pupilli)
trovo sia un chiaro esempio paradigmatico del comportamento moderno.

i hear music in the air - up above my head

cose trovate in fondo al cassetto : the night i met ofelia

                                                                                                                                           28 Gennaio 2007


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afuera hace frio . mucho frio.

la noche es obscura.

y a veces siento que me pierdo en ese silencio que hay afuera. lo siento con algo que no son mis oidos. es algo que se insinua adentro.... no te das cuenta y cuado te enteras ya està corriendo por tus venas. es un sudor al revez... algo que te invade. y de pronto se manifiesta . como la humedad en las paredes.

que de pronto es un verde jardin vertical .

esta noche conocì a ofelia. sì ella .

mi amiga de la selva se perdiò en los passillos para perseguirla.

una vez mas arlequin abriò un ventanal hacìa el inframundo que està entre un alma y otra.

papel e ink y se destapa una botella para celebrar un nuevo camino. nuevo.

me acuerdo del sol sobre tu cara.

Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit

clouds

Love on the Global Brain

Love on the Global Brain

By TARA PARKER-POPE

Brain scan studies have shown that early romantic love generates a unique pattern of brain activity. Regions of the brain related to addiction and even mental illness light up on the scan when a person sees a photo of his or her beloved.
But most of the research has been conducted in Western cultures like Britain and the United States. So researchers at Stony Brook University in New York wanted to know if the chaos of romantic love translates across cultures. For instance, does a Chinese brain look the same as an American brain when it’s in love?
There are reasons to think that culture and country influence how we love — or at least how we express it. For instance, in surveys, people from China typically describe romantic love “in much less positive terms,” notes Art Aron, a professor of psychology at Stony Brook who has conducted several love and brain scan studies.

“In a culture with a tradition of arranged marriages where romantic love is disruptive, questionnaire studies do suggest there might be differences,” Dr. Aron notes. “Romantic love is not entirely a great thing even for us. It has a tragic and dark side if you fall in love and the person doesn’t love you back or you’re in a relationship with someone else.”
When people in China talk about love, they often “tend to pick more negative traits, words like anxious, scary and depressing,” explained Dr. Aron. “Americans will also list some negative emotions, but the proportion of negatives is much higher for the Chinese.”
So when one of Dr. Aron’s graduate students, Xiaomeng Xu, decided to spend part of the summer in China, the team arranged to study the brains of Chinese citizens who reported being newly in love. The findings are reported online in the journal Human Brain Mapping.
They discovered that cultural differences in how love is expressed don’t change the brain’s neurological reaction to romantic love. The scans showed that love lights up the brain in the same manner, regardless of ethnic background.
“This measure doesn’t depend on culture,” Dr. Aron explained. “We were able to replicate our findings in a culture where everyone thought love would be the most different.”
To study love on the brain, men and women are placed in brain scan machines and shown pictures of their loved ones. They also see pictures of a familiar friend about whom they don’t have romantic feelings. Just as in the studies of love in the United States, the photo of the loved one evoked a unique pattern of neural activation in the area of the brain associated with intense reward — similar to the patterns shown when people take addictive drugs or gamble.
In the China study, the researchers took the additional step of tracking the relationships for 18 months. They then asked the couples to describe the relationship on a seven-point scale. Although all the remaining participants were happy together, some of them scored the relationship a 6, while others rated it a 7. Going back to the original scans, the researchers found distinct differences in the brain patterns among those who had the highest relationship satisfaction compared to those who gave slightly lower scores.
“To our delight we got some very clear patterns there,” Dr. Aron said. “We checked to see whether any plausible area of the brain would predict that, and we got a very strong result.”
Dr. Aron cautions that the findings are exploratory and need to be replicated. But the work suggests, for the first time, that the intensity of brain patterns during the early phase of romantic love may be able to predict the quality of the relationship 18 months into the future.
“I think what we take away from this is that love is not merely a cultural construction,” Dr. Aron said. “What the study does suggest is that love is a powerful force in human life. What is going on at the deep level of the brain is pretty much the same everywhere. But of course how we talk and think about it, what we do to show it to others, etc., may well be shaped by culture.”




source: THE NEW YORK TIMES

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funny female

ti avevo castigato, e quindi non ascoltavo la tua musica perchè tu eri in castigo per me, con il copricapo a cono provvisto di orecchione, in un angolo, guardando contro la parete ( by the way solo adesso mi rendo conto di quanto zen possa essere questo castigo). Quindi se tu sei in castigo io non ti vedo, tu non esisti, quindi non hai mai suonato una canzone quindi io non ascolto le tue canzoni. Oggi mi andava di toglierti dal castigo, forse a causa della tua faccia sbarbata di sta mattina o il notiziario che hai ascoltato sotto la doccia, e al rimetterti seduto composto sul tuo banco, ho pensato bene di riascoltare il tuo disco, che mi piace. Indubbiamente mi piace il tuo fottuto disco, con tutta la sua grafica, e il caramello. E mi accorgo che mi ero castigata io a non ascoltare il tuo disco, che mi piace. Tu non sei la tua musica, io non sono la mia musica. Eppure la tua musica è molto tu e la mia musica è molto io. La prossima volta devo fare piú attenzione a chi castigare.

funny male

Los hombres se me hacen seres sumamentes ridiculos. Lo digo porque hay situaciones en las cuales me dan harta risa. Acabas acostada con un tipo, en su casa, y el sopor de la cruda de la mañana siguiente apenas te deja salir a la calle sin tropezarte con las chelas en el piso: a pesar de haber hecho los mejores esfuerzos se te olvida algo en su casa, una bufanda o el sombrero, los aretes. Y lo que para ti es un detalle que simplemete choca con tu deseo de igiene mental, para èl es todo un problema: donde pondrà ese objeto de forma que las eventuales otras no lo vean -donde por otras se entienden jovenes chicuelas como tambien la madre- y al mismo tiempo tampoco tan escondida para que no se le olvide que la tiene de forma que en el proximo encuentro propicio èl pueda salirse con una escusa super cool del tipo “pasemos por mi casa asì te llevas la bufanda” en vez de tener que encontrar parafrasis mas elaboradas para decirte : vayamonos a mi casa, te tengo ganas otra vez.

...and cat.

i just wanna be your dog.

21may2010

Ismael Silva.

segretos.

ci sono segreti, segreti d'amore.
e non sono segreti perchè si vogliano nascondere a qualcuno o a qualcosa, ma semplicemente perchè non sono qualificabili o quantificabili.
sono segreti e sono veri, sono respirabili da chi li conosce.
ed è amore. amore sincero, puro.

Tarde em Itapuã

Um velho calção de banho
O dia pra vadiar
Um mar que não tem tamanho
E um arco-íris no ar
Depois na praça Caymmi
Sentir preguiça no corpo
E numa esteira de vime
Beber uma água de coco

É bom
Passar uma tarde em Itapuã
Ao sol que arde em Itapuã
Ouvindo o mar de Itapuã
Falar de amor em Itapuã

Enquanto o mar inaugura
Um verde novinho em folha
Argumentar com doçura
Com uma cachaça de rolha
E com o olhar esquecido
No encontro de céu e mar
Bem devagar ir sentindo
A terra toda a rodar

É bom
Passar uma tarde em Itapuã
Ao sol que arde em Itapuã
Ouvindo o mar de Itapuã
Falar de amor em Itapuã

Depois sentir o arrepio
Do vento que a noite traz
E o diz-que-diz-que macio
Que brota dos coqueirais
E nos espaços serenos
Sem ontem nem amanhã
Dormir nos braços morenos
Da lua de Itapuã

É bom
Passar uma tarde em Itapuã
Ao sol que arde em Itapuã
Ouvindo o mar de Itapuã
Falar de amor em Itapuã



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