Riad #9

People have pointed out that we were raising kids such as our parents had done.It is partly correct because generation after generation,some principles,standard behavior,the manner how kids have to handle with the challenges which come out during their entire lives never change.However,I realized that there are impressive differences between I and my three sons.When I was 22 years old,the age of the boys now,I was living in the swinging sixties. That extremely predictable and boring world of the past had been put off;sexual liberty,rock and roll and the felling that nothing could be forbitten were the most.We wanted to save the world;we spent hours in a bar’s table drinking beer and discussing politics and leftists writers as Gramci,Luckas,Deutcher etc…Now I know that we were naive even why we didn’t swallow those authors quite well,but I remember that time with fondness.Boys nowadays hate politics,classical writers are not their bussiness.They are interessed in studying hard to arrange a good place to work and make money to buy fancy clothes and impress girls at the ‘balada’.I don’t know witch is the best bevavior,but as the french says eachone has his own necessity.

Riad – Portfolio #3

When Karl Marks said that ‘religions are the opium of the society’,he wasn’t referring to God but to the several supertitions and beliefs created by the mankind so as to control and to intimidate the common people.Since the pre-history,the fear of the unknown has been making people accept all kinds of abuse . For instance, in the beginning,people worshiped acidents in nature such as the sun,a tree, an animal. However, when society became more complex,people changed their gods to gods with a meaning as god of the sea,god of fertility,god of war etc…At the same time,a new class of parasites came out:the priests,who use their apparent contact with God to demean believers with all sort of demands such as asking for money ,goods and sometimes even for their lives as in the Maia civilization.Nowadays,most religions practice monotheism, a sofisticated way to give power to a few to the detriment of the huge majority.Under monotheism priests have been struggling against all kinds of progress.For example,the church didn’t swallow the galileu’s theory that the earth turns around the sun until recently,despite all sorts of evidence. Today,the church condemms the use of condoms to prevent sexual illnesses and to avoid an undesirable pregnancy:they are living in the past,however the worse part being its tendency to frighten people talking about sins that take place only in their dirty minds,threatening them with fire from hell if they don’t do what they want.That is why religions are part of the dark side of the human behavior