SEDENTARY LIFE, AESTHETICS, SPORTS, HEALTH ... AND YOGA

 The average human being of the 21st century has a problem: if he does nothing he becomes sedentary. And it is so easy to become sedentary! And so comfortable! Just do nothing. Why does this happen? Simply because we are a relatively young species whose technology has advanced much faster than its physical body. And it was that four days ago we lived in the caverns ... If we didn't run we wouldn't hunt and we didn't...

The automatic homo

 "Of all the formidable things that go around the world, the most formidable is undoubtedly man," said the great Greek playwright Sophocles in Antigone, one of his peak works. I certainly share his opinion, but what is man? An animal? A rational animal? A God? A demigod? A programmable automaton? The bridge between an animal and something superior to him? I think it can be all those things. In this...