“We are not condemned to a reform of the things that are tired, but the revolution is still possible.”
It is the last cry that rises from the Zapatista Chiapas or angry statement Fidelista in Cuba. He is the director of Catholic Civilization Antonio Spadaro, which summarizes the way of life of his fellow Jesuit Pope Francis . It does so with a very shiny and jaunty essay in Wired, the Bible of the network, already directed by Chris Anderson.
A text that speaks many languages and can be read through many lenses. Firstly to provide an authoritative and reliable decryption of the strategy of the Pontiff. “A change redemptive” calls him Father Spadaro using the very words of Francis, where the novelty, says not without his inspired poetry, is like “making a cup of mate, which requires that the water is warm and that leaves of grass slowly will release the antioxidants. ” Action striving to make the best of what already exists, where “… innovation does not happen by conquering territories of power and influence, but driving or accompanying ongoing processes.”
Words that strike and to reveal who you are tormenting some time on the swirl induced by the Pope who is the end of the world. In particular, it astonishing ease with which it connects the action of the Vicar of Christ to what already is acting on earth among men. The Magisterium of Peter does not teach or shifting the trajectory of humanity, but “accompanying ongoing processes.” Francis thinks of a Church that grasps and accompany the signs of aging, not to judge and decide the direction of humanity. But what are the signs of aging? What is accompanying Francis? The director of Catholic Civilization did not hesitate or prudence verbal innovation is now the good news.
An innovation strong, that dumb fate of humanity that passes for “breaches of strict rules are there only to pass on institutions “. A passage that seems to me very strongly innovative than any reading of the doctrine. The break rules as a value, the upheaval of the institutions as a goal, innovation as a “revolution”.
There’s more than enough to make “references to mythology What parts of a museum” as, obviously having fun, Father Spadaro tells the emotions aroused by the meeting of Pope in Bolivia with local youth during his last trip to Latin America. Here, restraining any temptation to improvise theological, I want to stay on the specific digital. This is certainly the theme initial script by Antonio Spadaro is entitled A Pope dressed in bits . Bergoglio Pope says he’s not an expert digital, do not even have a tablet, but few masters like the philosophy, the culture of a network where human relationships are intertwined and become an environment where, says the Pope, “the digital network can be a place full of humanity, not a network of wires but of people. “
A thought that has not yet been acquired by the intellectual elite, or policies of our country, who continue to see the web, when they perceive it as a sequence of technological solutions to be acquired and taken to better talk with their users. Father Spadaro marks a boundary with respect to this vision mediocentrica network, which endorses the digital system to a communication device such as TV or newspapers. “The network is the place where the social solidarity becomes” quotes from Francis father Spadaro. The network thus is life, a “living environment, not instrument” says the Bishop of Rome, not a substitute for information, to commodify or measured with the same criteria of profitability or reliability. With the same ease, of those who feel at home, he goes on to explain Spadaro, there are no boundaries or barriers between the real and the virtual, so that the Jubilee will be lived either in two dimensions.
But why this digital poster? Because Father Spadaro insists in the concept of the network which has the Pope? The transition is not painless. It is obvious that involve more friction, new mutterings, most resistance. But, as always, when we talk about the network, it is fumbling in the forms of social relations that the network causes, beginning with those of power hierarchies. And at what hierarchy speaks father Spadaro explicitly citing the Pope? Thinking back to the Vatican corridors, in those rooms where, physically and culturally Francis eschews. Again the message that proposes Spadaro could not be more clear and decipherable: history is the history of the peoples rather than the elites. It could not be more clear reasoning and the recipient. And to make it more intelligible perspective that we have before Father Spadaro gets carried away by his love of art: “For Pope Francis wrote, reality is like for the futurists, dynamic, moving, never stands still.”
But it is still the network to provide the scenario in which to place the future. The power of digital systems is huge, writes, even you have answers before you ask the question. But no serendipity, without human unpredictability, no surprise, “data becomes exhibits, museum pieces”. But not to be misunderstood, to avoid the risk of providing material to those who want to resist innovation, Father Spadaro opens another door “surprising”: the algorithm that governs the network must be the subject of contention, is not enough computing power unique, because the algorithm dominant need a system that can not replace the community. It takes a digital thinking but critical. Incomplete, how it intends to Francis. While thinking spherical dominant inert lives of equidistance of equivalences. In short, it is not confrontational.
And this is the real transition, which assigns the writing of Father Spadaro thick historical soaking in the network Pope Francis intends to take a confrontational logic, dialectical, revolutionary. To which the network is natural “environment.” Not the perfection of the sphere but the angularity of the polyhedron, the facet of the dialectic. Furthermore, according to Spadaro bringing yet another quote from the Pope which shows absolute familiarity and confidence: “The great changes in history have realized when the reality was seen not from the center but from the periphery.” Something more than a finding that the Pope coming from so distant suburbs.
A reasoning that the Jesuit director of Catholic Civilization, that seems to speak to the sacred but also profane. A refractory curia who is alerted to a new year of great earthquakes, and to one’s political and institutional Italian who is pushed over the edge of the network, over the gap of standing, noting that the process is in motion, not deviabile or esorcizzabile.
This is the real fact that emerges from this text that ends with a quote from the founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius of Loyola, who seems prophetically describe the pervasiveness of the digital environment:
“Do not be limited by the larger space, and be able to stay in the smaller space. This is the divine”.
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