Faces fully distended. Smiles on everyone's lips.

Attitudes that express a high degree of physical and mental. The light gray suits and discreet reinforce that impression.

What do these young people?

If you were in a tea room or lounge "cheesy", his attitude would be different. But what is this table? Do they play in it a strange new game that gives them so much and so relaxed distraction? Far from it. They are workers who work in a factory ...

This division of labor is clearly a liar. All work requires effort. And the effort tires, weighs and wears. However, in this photograph precisely the ideas of tiredness, weight and wear are entirely eliminated. It seems that there was no Original Sin, and sweat "that terrible symbol of painful effort" is not inherent in the job.

Of course, in special circumstances can be extremely occupation peaceful and relaxed. But these circumstances are ephemeral. However little work is extended or repeated, tiredness and painful impression of struggle begin to appear.

That a designer has resolved to submit under the false light work, not a matter of greater consequence. The important thing is that its design is typical expression of a widespread tendency in our time: a fundamental horror to all suffering that leads to mask pain and make the universe as a paradise of delights. The pain would be largely subjective product of the mind. If man smiling in front of all the suffering would be eliminated, if not entirely, at least in very large measure.

Hence the famous phrase, but to break the leg, keep smiling.

It is this conception of life, futile, false, that fools only the fools, what the picture says. She summed up in two words: Neopaganism naturalist.

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Long face, fine lines and firm, penetrating stare and determined, holding a big paddle manly vigor, the Basque fisherman has a tough profession that his soul is fashioned and dignified. In every sense of the word he is a man. A man who has the arrogance of a true Christian chivalry, a true Catholic. His whole personality is marked by the effort, the struggle for risk. It is seen that countless times faced the fury or the treachery of the ocean and dominoes. And you're fully prepared to a countless number of other companies bold.

Underlying the face of the worker and the environment that it brings, is all a Catholic conception of work and pain. Suffering exists. But it is a marvelous gift of God to man, aided by the grace temple and raise your personality. San Francisco de Sales called to suffering the eighth sacrament. Hide hide the pain is one of the most noble and important aspects of life. If you look well in life, you will find that most or all of the beauty that it contains a pain is clearly planned and nobly endured to the end. What would this fisherman without the great struggles for its existence? Are not they the genuine and colorful glory?

It is obvious that without the help of grace, man can not stand correctly and fully the efforts and sacrifices of a thousand genres that life imposes. But when the soul is for the grace, she is capable of that great and glorious in accordance with the pain. Hence the Catholic conception of the work that exactly what this is inherently more beautiful is to be painful.

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

23 Aug 2008 | by Family Action | Theme: Customs Environments