Sensitivity conditioned by the ego

How many things are smuggled, with a lot of approximation, for sensibility!
Let's look at some examples of this sensitivity, I don't say non-existent, but at least doubtful, just to clarify the ideas on some points that so easily escape those who try to understand something of their own intimate and - maybe, why not! - of the underwear of others.
As most of you will certainly remember, a feat has been accomplished that journalists, critics and those who have followed it have considered a historic undertaking.
No, it's not about reaching Mars, it's not about climbing the highest peak in the Himalayas either, but it's a rock concert!
… Ohibò, it seems impossible and yet a rock concert has been considered something historical!
However, since most of those who listen to me do not necessarily know exactly what I am talking about, I think it is good to make a small summary of what I am referring to.

It is now known - thanks to the various information channels - that the African land is going through a really difficult period due to drought and therefore, consequently, famine, hunger, death that especially affects the smallest creatures. The European and American musical world, in its usual sensitivity that it continually demonstrates by managing, for example, to modify its "look" - as we say today - to adapt it to what the mass expects and expects from show business people, launches a proposal: that of carrying out a great show, a great rock concert in order to donate the proceeds to charity in favor of these African populations so unfortunate.
Great idea! So much so that not 10.000 people, not 1.000.000 people but, according to the more or less inflated calculations of those involved in statistics, about two and a half billion people attended this "historic" event!
Io I do not want to enter, this evening, into the merits of what is behind all this and therefore to see whether or not there was sincerity in making this show; I don't want to ask myself if there were other ends or if, indeed, these other ends were not preponderant with respect to the desire to help, but instead I prefer to dwell on the sensitivity of those two and a half billion people who - it is said - have observed this spectacle.

During this long show, which lasted almost a whole day, it has certainly happened to a large part of these spectators located all over the world to be suddenly struck by the emotion, by the emotion, to almost get to tears, to tears, in the face of such a beautiful thing, such a great union between so many people.
But, I wonder about this emotion, therefore about this sudden widening of the sensitivity of the spectators: if instead of having been a rock concert with so many "stars" of the present moment or of past moments, it had been a whole day of liturgical chants, what would have happened? And would the spectators always be two and a half billion people, or would they be much less? Would there always be the same emotion on the part of these spectators, the same sense of brotherhood or, after listening to the first litany, would the televisions have been turned off? I am convinced, creatures, that exactly what I have proposed as a second hypothesis would have happened.
And if so, at this point it seems logical to ask: "But then have all these people listened and were truly moved only by sensitivity towards the problem that was presented, or instead only for the pleasure of listening to certain musical vibrations?" .
On the other hand, these same people who were moved and even crying during this "mega-show" a few days later proved completely indifferent to a disaster that happened, perhaps, a few hundred kilometers away: there it was, for example, in Italy, the same emotion for those poor people overwhelmed by the waters, there was not the same chain of solidarity, yet it was something much closer and therefore much more tangible! They were, at least, people who were part of the same state, the same nation, and therefore perhaps already felt closer than people of another race and even belonging to another continent.

And this, in your opinion, can it really be sensitivity or, in reality, is it selfishness disguised under the false guise of sensitivity? I do not want to answer this, but I leave it to everyone who will read or hear what I am saying the task of dispassionately giving to himself - if not to others - the answer he thinks best.
Together with this example so evident, so macroscopic, I could bring many others: just scroll through your magazines and see how these days, suddenly, the sensitivity of Hollywood actors is at the fore, how the chain of solidarity triggered with their means, with their money, for research on a disease that "suddenly" was discovered to exist in that environment. Sensitivity, it is said in the newspapers, oh, sure, creatures, sensitivity, but if that disease hadn't presented itself so close to those people, would there have been the same sensitivity?
Here too I leave the answer to you, even though I realize that there is no need to think much about it.

I repeat: the examples could be many, many: every moment of your days, your life, your culture, your politics, your hours is chock full of examples of sensitivity of this type, but this just goes to show all in all, we can probably have some reason when we affirm that:

true sensitivity - except in not many individuals who have truly achieved a certain evolution - currently humanity has not yet found it, and that at most it is still only able to be able to perceive certain aspects of its sensitivity when these aspects make something internal vibrate, something intimate that makes it resonate with its own Me and with their own needs.

Beyond all these discourses, creatures, an incontrovertible fact remains, a teaching remains, a certainty that comes before everything else; that is, the fact remains that,

before being able to reach sensitivity towards what is external, before being able to be sensitive towards others, towards the world, humanity, the universe, the Absolute, it is necessary, it is necessary, it is essential, it is primary to succeed to be sensitive to yourself.
That is, to succeed, first of all, a feel what one is inside.

Scifo

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