Cultural Current Slow Movement

Cultural current Slow Movement

Introduction

We currently live in a model of mercantilist society, competitive and dehumanized, in which speed prevails. Slow movements arise in response to this acceleration of the rhythm of life that is being carried out in recent decades. Proposes that each human being control his time and not submit to him. We can highlight as a predecessors of this current to Herbert Marcuse that his book The Uni man dimensions, attacks equally against the model of capitalist industrial growth and against the socialist-Soviet model, in the same line as Erich Fromm whose book to be or have, shows A radical allegation against consumerist society.

Developing

In the field of education, it is worth highlighting, among others, Montaigne’s position for a slow, serene and in contact with nature. But who most extensively theorizes the philosophy of slowness is, without a doubt, Jean Jacques Rousseau who attacks the idea of ​​watching the head of children with trivial and useless principles, as well as anticipating any type of teaching that is not digestible and appropriate to The capacities and learning pace of each child. Hence, he delimits five major evolutionary ages depending on the acquisitions he can receive progressively.

Stages that would later serve different psychologists and epistemologists such as Piaget to deepen child development and learning. In this sense, in the thirty points of the New School defined by Ferrière several assumptions are contemplated in this same address: experience based on experience; Do not load the curriculum; Promote individuality, spontaneity and stages of child and human development etc.

The beginning of the Slow Movement begins with that of the Slow Food, founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy. The increasingly widespread fast food is born as a reaction. 

This is followed by others such as Slow Sex, Slow School, Slow People, or Slow appointments. This perspective of slowness is also contemplated in the global strategy of sustainable development and in the theory of decrease formulated by Serge Latouche, a radical criticism of growth and the accumulation of goods, and excessive consumerism. In this mercantilist context, in which everything is reduced and transforms into interchangeable goods, the supporters of the decline question the quality of our vital trajectories. We live, without a doubt, much longer (on average), but without never having the time to live. 

The decreased proposals, of a revolutionary and radically anti -capitalist nature, go beyond the paradigm of sustainability and the Slow movement, the UN approved the 2030 Agenda on sustainable development, in 2015, an opportunity for countries and their societies to undertake a new new Way to improve everyone’s life, without leaving anyone behind. The agenda has 17 sustainable development objectives, which include from the elimination of poverty to the fight against climate change, education, women’s equality, the defense of the environment or the design of our cities.

conclusion

Slow food is an eco gastronomic association that promotes a "new gastronomy", from a multidisciplinary approach that defends the enjoyment of food, reflects on the education of taste and the right to pleasure with a new sense of responsibility, taking into account the balance with The ecosystem, the defense of agri -food biodiversity and the ethical commitment to producers. Slow Food was founded in 1986 by Carlo Petrini in Bra (Italy). 

With the initial objective of neutralizing the effects of Fast Food and Fast Life that were destroying healthy food and lifestyle habits, causing the disappearance of local gastronomic traditions, the usual disinterest in nutrition, origin and flavors of food. Slow Food has national structures in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Holland. Has more than 100.000 members worldwide and is present in more than 160 countries.