Editorial. Listening to the other

Abstract

"To be heard": Perhaps this is the most felt need for many of us, also for the inmates of the prisons.
Take a look around us is enough to observe the deep loneliness that is the man of our time. The hurry, the vertigo of our life, the superficiality of our communication, the isolation sought and the individualistic conception of life impede the attitude of listening and openness to the other for whom there is no place in our time and in our occupation.

The relationships of the man of our time are marked by profitability and efficiency. Nothing is free, everything has a price. The relationship with the other is framed in a relationship of power, of dominion, often impregnated with distrust, with suspicion. It is not the other, as "someone", the interlocutor, but a common object to possess and dominate. Changing this dynamic or logic of in-communication requires a turn
Copernican to our conception of man, to our concept of the other and of ourselves; it means to understand ourselves as in-sufficient beings, in need of the other to be "someone", a moral subject, that is, responsible (capable of taking charge or responding to something or someone); it implies seeing us from the other, from the "other shore"; see the picture of our life from the perspective of the other in which he finds his vision and fullest sense.
Man is a being essentially in need of the other in order to exist as a human being. To listen to the other, to open up to the other is to act as a human being.