"The virtual eclipse of the discussion on teaching content, replaced by a suffocating fireworks display on methodologies, objectives, profiles and other irrelevant political-unionist paperwork, [...] refers to Martin Heidegger's great philosophical hypothesis on the progressive dissolution and transformation of Western metaphysical tradition into planetary technology. The anonymous, impersonal and self-reproducing nature of planetary technology is effectively indifferent to the cultural content that accompanies it, cultural content created, developed and discussed in a previous “metaphysical” historical era. In this sense, the current tendency to transform the Internet itself from an agile and fast communication network (which it unquestionably is) into a sort of new and epoch-making cultural horizon in itself, which would characterise an entire futuristic historical era, leaving behind the old bookish rubbish, must be considered a significant sign. The crazy pedagogues, superficial politicians and chattering trade unionists who perhaps believe themselves to be the conscious and proactive agents of these school reforms do not even imagine, partly (but not only) due to their lack of philosophical education, that they are nothing more than the inanimate objects of an epoch-making transformation that they cannot even understand. It would be good if Umberto Galimberti or Emanuele Severino explained it to them, because beneath these highly famous names, they would certainly not listen to anyone else."
January 1, 1970
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