Antonio Rossin on
DIALECTIC EDUCATION
towards the increase of Flexibility in people's minds
(and Primary Prevention of Drugs Addiction)
This is doctor Rossin's proposal:
"The main topic today could be the increase of flexibility - meant as the opposite of fundamentalism and the paradigm for changes - in people's brains. How may the family pattern of educative communication be influential in improving open-mindedness and flexibility from childhood onwards? The proper know-how might be obvious enough to You. To most families, it isn't. I explain it as a new knowledge of the language problems which people of today must face.
According to Bertrand Russell's "Theory of the Logical Levels", many Social Problems with hard solution (1) - from drug addiction to the ecological crisis, to politics, to the cultural standard -might be better and earlier solved if they were faced not only in the Up level of the Authorities, but also in the Down logical level of the common people's open-mindedness. Students should keep in mind that the Effectiveness of Communication (2) depends on the listener's flexibility, more than the speaker's power. This new view of communication opens to the concept of the Negative Language (3).
The stake is great, because each lack in flexibility is a source of sicknesses: according to Hippocrates' teachings, a subsequent "Lessened Flexibility Syndrome " (4) can be prevented by increasing flexibility in people's minds. Moreover, the first educative communication pattern for flexibility, opening children's minds towards autonomy and self-realization, is mostly effective in avoiding discomfort in the Youth (5) of today and their eventual transgression towards drug addiction. Flexibility in mind should be a basic tool for everybody all over the world wanting to overcome fundamentalism. I just rationalized the Role of the Family communication patterning in building Flexibility in People's minds (6). Parents are not yet aware about this know-how, as a chance for children and the human society they increase. Parents must be informed (7), of course. I am on this goal with an "Objective Project" (8). Do you want to share? ...
…because - in a world that changes more and more quickly
it is not important to start the journey from the right step,
from the positive more than from the negative side of words.
The best way is to be flexible on the road. "
Dr. Rossin has ultimately developed his educative proposal as a project in order to give it the utmost propagation through the internet, aiming at addressing the parents all over the world. Along this way, he has become a founding member of WDDM, Worldwide Direct Democracy Movement. "Participatory Democracy requests for people's flexibility, as their bottom-up attitude to take upon themselves the aware responsibility for any policy change " he says. On this way, dr.R. has naturally come to cooperate with ISPO, the International Simultaneous Policy Organization, as John Bunzl, the ISPO leader, said: "…top-down policies with bottom-up origins are the only ones that function effectively."
Antonio Rossin's writings are:
Logical Levels and social problems with hard solution
Communication effectiveness depends on the listener's flexibility
Truth, belief and the Negative Language
The Lessened Flexibility Syndrome, LFS
Drugs: what has to be said to Peter ?
The role of family language patterns in building flexibility in people's minds
The Word and the Health
The LFS Objective Project
Pragmatic Cybernetics
Psychoanalysis and Educative Research
The Bottom-up approach to Democracy
Triadic Communication
The fundamentalist side of the Golden Rule
and, in Italian language:
"Droga&Famiglia", Zielo ed, Padova 199O (book) ISBN 88.85689.13.2
"L'Anapesto - elementi di Linguaggio Negativo", Ed Paideia Florence, 2000, ISBN 88.87410.10.0 (the 'Presentation' of this book has been written into English language by Kerry Miller)
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