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Everybody feels sad from time to time. It is a natural part of human life. As the Danish philosopher and writer Søren Kierkegaard wrote in his book Disease to Death, if we had a real knowledge of man, we would have found that there was never such a person who was not at least a little desperate in some moment during his life.
The joke goes like this: "Sociologists don´t do it. They just observe." Well, Prof. Vašečka is a sociologist and his observations are certainly thought-provoking and valuable, which is why we, in Il Ponte, decided he is a great candidate for a long interview in this edition. However, when it comes to discussing important sociological issues, he can be also witty, proving he does not take himself too seriously. As you can guess from the title, we covered a wide variety of topics: migration, globalization, polarization, communication, education, space exploration, and everything in-between.
Artistic freedom, being a major domain for the freedom of expression, belongs to the fundamental pillars of democracy. It is art which encourages diversity of cultural expression by embodying heterogeneous values, ideas and worldviews.
“Well, up until now the planet warmed up by 1 °C and we can already see some critical changes. Perhaps the most important change is the decline of biodiversity, which is caused, aside from other factors, directly by climate change. Then there is the death of coral reefs, which is already massive due to oceans warming up. Another problem is the biosphere on land.”
May 8, 1945, Europe. The wave of enthusiasm, hope, and relief, is flooding Europe. The war (for Europeans) is over! German Nazi forces representatives are signing unconditional surrender to the allied forces in Europe, merely 8 days after Hitler’s suicide (April 30, 1945). His "Thousand-Year Reich" lasted for 12 years (1933-1945).
