but the gifts are not innocent As some will know and many others do not, the European Commission has printed more than three million copies of diaries (at our expense) in the respective languages \u200b\u200bof the EU countries to be distributed in secondary schools as a gift to raise awareness of the various students and the great fortunes by virtue of a Europe united at last. In the individual pages of this gift, lists the various occasions, of course, but on the day of the December 25 "missing" the feast of Christmas, replaced by a silly phrase about the importance of affection between friends. Because there are, vice versa, the holidays of other religions, is not it hard to infer that the deletion of the Christian, was dictated, as is indicated by the need to avoid offending the sensibilities of famous believers of other faiths.
We would like here to fill that page been unjustly white, while reminding that the gifts are never innocent, but if they are from the European Union to secure dangerous!
begin by saying that in every gift that we give or receive there is always something disturbing, because when it is given, one thing is not only that "certain thing" because it brings with it the spirit of the donor, the item "numinous" and a bit 'terrible that primitive called Mana. It is this spirit, this essence is exchanged gifts in and through them. Under their apparent simplicity gifts break so the economic law that regulates the movement of objects that can be bought and sold for ask, however, their comparison between subjectivity, precisely through the gift, facing each other. What is at stake, we understand, is not given only by the objects, but the subjectivity that objects symbolically convey with that hidden power which is the Mana.
The anthropological literature reminds us of the many cases where the primary challenge to shots of gifts and counter-gifts in the magnificence of the gift is the celebration of the essence of its power and humiliation, conversely, those who receive it. The data is unequivocal in short, to see the object of exchange as one means to convey the Mana of the giver, that at the gift, who has expressed his own power as a measure of its ability, humiliating as a result, those who receive it. The gift meant as wealth in the form of wasteful extravagance pushed to determine for example the practice of "potlatch", according to which it is not only powerful, not necessarily who is richer, but those who give more.
From here, of course, a "duty to donate", but "the obligation to receive" short, no one is allowed to stand in a position to "give without receiving," and then to express a power "irreversible."
But the great feast of Christmas is perhaps the most of all celebrate the love of children to express it in an almost automatic way through the gifts? It 'just that regard, namely to transfer the many and varied data set by the anthropological literature in a more specific on the values \u200b\u200band meanings of our culture, which was illuminating the work done by the work anthropologist Ida Magli. Celebrating the birth of the Savior, "he points out, there is nothing more than celebrating the birth of the child's right, among all those who are born to kill Easter. Felix culpa, sin of origin that sparked the wrath of God condemned him to death, he also allowed that could save us from death by killing, in fact, the savior, or the Child that arises now.
Similarly, Nitzsche had seen the enormous power of the Christian God manifest itself through the rejection of the symbolic exchange of counter-gift of man. The sacrifices offered by the men, said the German philosopher, are inadequate to "fix" the guilt that can be called only with a gift of God, which is to send first, and sacrifice, then, your son. A true test of omnipotence, as always happens in the logic of the gift when you can not reciprocate. That is terrible logic that supports this theology remembers him with great acuteness Ida Magli, for which we have made a God in our image and likeness, which accepts only the death for death, and not just any, but that of his son. A death, in short, that injury, then its very nature and essence!
"Timaeus gives Danaos et fèrentes ..." exclaimed the good King Agamemnon Trojan thinking!
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