{"id":19195,"date":"2018-07-20T01:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=19195"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T17:49:26","slug":"to-ensure-lucidity-in-choices-we-need-to-cultivate-discernment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2018\/07\/20\/to-ensure-lucidity-in-choices-we-need-to-cultivate-discernment\/","title":{"rendered":"To Ensure Lucidity in Choices, We Need to Cultivate Discernment"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Remember that the political process requires discernment! <\/h2>\n
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Lucidity in the choices<\/span><\/h4>\n

Choices, when done with lucidity, can promote the qualification of personal life and the integral development of society.<\/span> Freedom of choice is a right, but it is necessary to know the consequences of each decision.<\/span> For this reason, it is not advisable that the choices should be made simply by<\/span> 
\nconveniences.<\/span> Neither should they be determined by the psychic and affective dynamics of individuals, as they impact on socio-political and cultural contexts.<\/span> Thus, only the lucidity in the choices, fruit of the indispensable exercise of discernment, is capable of generating the necessary balance to the decisions directed towards the common good.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And every process of discernment is complex.<\/span> It reveals individual weaknesses, regardless of social, academic and economic conditions.<\/span> Thus, the secret of good discernment lies in the human and spiritual competence to articulate concepts, information and to see, with greater clarity, reality.<\/span> But in many situations, people are not able to discern well.<\/span> Even more troubling is when individuals with large responsibilities are unprepared.<\/span> Managers who have a duty to represent the people make inadequate choices, causing devastating impacts on society.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this reason, it is necessary to choose these managers, specifically in the electoral process.<\/span> Many submit their names to the suffrage of the ballot boxes moved exclusively by vanity.<\/span> Worse, the presence in politics of people who seek to occupy positions only to serve private interests, or<\/span> 
\nsatisfy the desire to have the “power in the hands”.<\/span> After all, the manager is expected to have a competent government in discernment and choices, prioritizing effectiveness in solving different problems without delays and losses.<\/span> But, unfortunately, it is often found that they occupy strategic places without the slightest<\/span> 
\nperception of their own responsibilities.<\/span> Instead of presenting results, a prevailing gossip prevails with endless justifications.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Leaders<\/span><\/h3>\n

This scenario is especially worrying nowadays, when institutions are challenged to remodel, adapting to contemporary reality.<\/span> And in instances of power, those who represent the people, rather than offering solutions to the many problems, are more concerned with maintaining positions and privileges.<\/span> They do not even dedicate themselves to the necessary exercise of self-criticism, essential for not repeating mistakes.<\/span> Lack of lucidity.<\/span> A pathology that threatens different institutions, submits to the disconnections and idiosyncrasies of its leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Urgent is the emergence of new leaders, capable of leading processes with detachment and intelligence.<\/span> Particularly, this is an unquestionable necessity for Brazil , which needs to rearticulate the course of democracy, so weakened by the management of those who have followed the paths of pettiness, instead of prioritizing the common good.<\/span> In this sense, the Brazilian citizen is challenged to choose his representatives well in this year’s elections.<\/span> Managers and legislators capable of perceiving the complex reality of the country must be sought.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the many challenges to be faced is, therefore, the qualification of the political community.<\/span> The unique opportunity for this is voting at the polls.<\/span> In order not to lose it, each person must choose his candidate lucidly, considering the proposals that really seek the good of society.<\/span> Of the politicians, a clear understanding of the real importance of the people is expected, as the Social Doctrine of the Church teaches: people are not an amorphous multitude, an inert mass to be manipulated and instrumentalized, but a set of people with the right to form its own opinion about the public issues, to express its political sensibility and to assert it in a manner consistent with the common good.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not enough for politicians to ambitiously to take places in governance processes.<\/span> We must intuit new ways.<\/span> The starting point will always be cultivation-learning of discernment, to ensure lucidity in choices.<\/span><\/p>\n

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