http://riidblog.org/Recent content in Integral-Development on RIIDblogHugo -- gohugo.ioenSat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/post/18-04-2026/Cristina ScorranoThe term “Ghosting,” derived from the English word “ghost,” was added to the Treccani dictionary’s list of neologisms in 2024. The definition reads as follows: “Suddenly and without explanation, cutting off all contact with a person, making oneself untraceable.” Digital anthropology and psychology, within their respective fields of scientific inquiry, have described this phenomenon, which has become increasingly widespread in the age of online relationships and causes a painful sense of abandonment in those who experience it. Digital anthropology studies and seeks to understand the impact of information technologies on the human beings who use them. “One of the aims of anthropology, as Gaetano Piccolo S.J. states, is to foster self-understanding in human beings, that is, to activate a process of awareness of the existential and cultural dynamics in which they find themselves living.” In the 1990s, researchers Daniel Miller and Don Slater launched a study to examine the use and influence of the Internet on the inhabitants of the island of Trinidad. Their pioneering studies in digital anthropology contributed to defining the Internet not only as a source of information and knowledge but as a space where individuals develop and experience existing relational dynamics; the people of Trinidad used the web to communicate with distant loved ones, or forged new ones by creating unpredictable forms of connection and new community formations. These findings led to moving beyond the “digital/virtual” and “material/real” dichotomy to highlight the mutual influence of the two spheres. The “real” informs the “digital,” and the “digital” causes the “real” to evolve in new ways. The rapid and pervasive development of digital technologies has profoundly changed culture, the economy, human identity, and interpersonal relationships. For this reason, an increasingly deep understanding of how humans use technologies across various socio-cultural contexts is essential for analyzing the changes occurring in individuals’ mindsets and inner lives. Social networks and social media have become spaces of belonging, social recognition, professional interaction, communication, and the sharing of passions and feelings.http://riidblog.org/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/post/06-04-2026/Isaac Eliseo Gaspar MoralesWe are truly tired of flowery rhetoric about freedom, self-actualization, and human rights. Not because these are undesirable realities or shamefully incomprehensible concepts. On the contrary, they are aspects of life that we strive to preserve, nurture, and make possible so that others may enjoy or attain them. Rather, I am referring to the fact that, in the name of freedom, self-realization, and elegant discourse on human rights, we have been subjected to a sordid practical relativism, to living life any which way, to justifying ourselves to avoid the harsh blow of correction, failure, or sin.http://riidblog.org/Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/post/26-03-2026/Silvia Gonzalez Perez PhDThe well-known phrase ‘divide and conquer’ has not only been applied to winning battles and subsequently wars, or in commercial transactions to maximise profits; it also applies to human beings themselves, in their various spheres (work, family, social, professional); for example, in medicine, the focus has been on treating the patient’s specific ailment, without considering that they are a whole human being with multiple conditions; and that even if they suffer from localised pain, that organ is affected and is affecting the rest of the body.http://riidblog.org/Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/post/13-03-2026/Sarah Pattison PhDThe world is hungry. We hunger for justice and peace. We are born into a state of hunger, cut off from our mother and turned out to a cruel world as orphaned beggars. We are robbed daily of our peace. Our energy and joy are eaten day and night to fuel the extracting machines of this world: industrialism, capitalism, consumerism. Brutalized, where in this world can we turn for justice? No where.http://riidblog.org/Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/post/17-03-2026/Cristina ScorranoThis famous verse by David Maria Turoldo introduces this brief – and certainly not exhaustive – reflection on ‘justice’, a theme that is often at the heart of debates and demands. Let us ask ourselves what the meaning of the term “justice” is in a globalised, multicultural society dominated by market forces and technology, and, above all, on what foundation can the concept of “justice” be anchored if religious and moral references are no longer valid or shared?http://riidblog.org/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/post/05-03-2026/Riccardo Colasanti MDIt is always terrible to see how humanity, generation after generation, finds its greatest aspiration in war, murder, and destruction. In the annihilation of part of itself. One might say, “It’s not my fault. It’s the other who is my enemy, and therefore I must crush him like a poisonous plant.” This is the same argument used by Cain when questioned by Yahweh after spilling Abel’s blood, who gave the surprising answer, “Who made me my brother’s keeper?http://riidblog.org/Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/post/06-02-2026/Riccardo ColasantiIt seems that so-called political realism is in vogue, i.e., that there are no laws or rules to protect us, but that it is only important to know how to navigate the conflictual sea of reality, where nothing but force and power make sense. That men, after such a long journey, return to the club, the stone, and the machete is indicative of a regression to the devastating powers of instinct, but also of an intolerance towards what had been the liberal canon in recent years, made up of a dense web of rights, which, however, had been transformed into the garment that Deianira sent to Hercules, a garment soaked in the poison of Naxos.http://riidblog.org/Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/post/05-02-2026/Riccardo Colasanti MDThose who go against justice are like wild beasts to other men. With sharp teeth and sweaty, shivering skin. The harshness of strong men, their animal nature, which nothing can stop because they are dominated by their passions, is that of The Genealogy of Morals, when Nietzsche states that evil birds love lambs, “because there is nothing more delicious than a tender lamb.” This principle of forced saturation of one’s own being, this revelry to the point of bursting, eating everything, digesting everything, destroying everything, could be mistaken by some unhappy people for some kind of greatness, like towering above ordinary mortals.http://riidblog.org/Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/post/14-01-2026/(maybe) Riccardo Colasanti MDThe year 2026 will likely mark the beginning of a new era, one of artificially produced literature that is indistinguishable from text written by humans. As the practice of writing with AI becomes more widespread, it will no longer be possible to distinguish between the human and the artificial. Everything will be open to question. Only works written before 2026 will be able to be attributed with certainty to a human author.http://riidblog.org/Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/post/05-02-2025/Riccardo ColasantiAs is well known, the distinction in politics between “right” and “left” has long since lost its raison d’être. Today, the division between progressives and conservatives is more valid. Progressive or conservative ideas that take root in the two camps of the old “right” and “left”. We must consign these obsolete concepts to the annals of history. But once we have rid ourselves of the words “right” and “left” we must understand the differences, analyze this antagonistic global tension between conservatives and progressives, because this exhausting struggle is tearing the world apart.