Not everyone is empowered to think. Because thinking requires a series of prerequisites that were present in Man because they were valuable in the social environment that was his lot. The individual and society configure each other; it is not a vertical relationship but one of reciprocity. It is true that the Man who does not think receives vertically and in free fall the social stew of his time. The essential elements to start thinking are:

1) Disagreement
2) Time
3) Recognition of ignorance
4) Enthusiasm
5) Find a thinkable object

1) The Man in accordance with his environment does not think, does not need to think: there is a flow of good interests between him and his time.

2) Since we are talking about time: a Man without time, that is: without leisure, he has no possibility of finding a meager bedroom from which to create abstractions, words, images.

3) He who does not doubt his knowledge cannot think,
What need to put the intellectual machinery to work can those who believe they possess knowledge have: no need.

4) The jaded, the fatigued, the one who asks permission from one foot to put the other in motion, the slowed-down hominid who walks the world barely awake, without fire and without restlessness, that one does not think. Thinking is an indefinable phenomenon but a phenomenon that has characteristics, and one of those characteristics is enthusiasm.

5) Who does not know that the world that surrounds them is not natural but the result of wars, treaties, conveniences, economic paradigms; consequence of musical, literary, moral, religious, spiritual, linguistic, political, aesthetic canons, etc.; and that these paradigms are social creations; Those who do not know this live by naturalizing the environment in which their existence develops and therefore do not think, because another of the characteristics of thinking is realizing that any entity outside (and even inside) my body is a potential thinkable object.

I am not going to develop the difference between thinking and thought because I have not yet been able to delve into it, but for now this is worth it: thought is imposed, it is social and it is (this is fundamental) synchronic: thought is the effect of an era and is not It extends beyond that time that established it.

Thinking is an individual attitude, more grotesque and unsubmissive, thought does not doubt but thinking does; To think is to cut off the thought, I repeat: the thought dies when the subject dares (gives himself breath, enthusiasm, courage) to think, and (this is the fundamental thing) it is a diachronic phenomenon: since he knows that the time is what stops the Men, you also know that the only way to transcend your space-time bias is to direct your artillery towards the past and the future (fundamentally through the study of History, Geography and philosophy).

In this first quarter of a century, we find that thought (remember the difference between it and thinking) has emerged victorious in all the contests: in the family, the educational, the political, the sexual, the medicinal, in the supposed metathought ( but which does not have the vigor to break the ranks of thought).

This victory is very easy to visualize: let's take the case of social networks, notice how everyone writes comments feeling that they are changing the world because they precisely write things that they know the world is waiting for and the obedient subject goes and writes believing that he thinks but no: he simply writes what his thinking (don't forget: synchronous) suggests (obliges him).

Very hard time for thinking and ideal for thinking. Today's Man is, look around him and see for yourself, a subject without enthusiasm, without time, with a big mouth, a big mouth, a Man satisfied with his thoughts, with his muscles, with his sex, with his car (an extension, we know, of his penis), the Man of the 21st century has thought but does not think because thinking, as we said, implies disagreement and perception of one's own ignorance: and the Man of today is a kind and obedient subject (he attends tea houses, uses slippers who advertise on YouTube, jogs, eats healthy, is a soccer fan, criticizes politicians, etc.), that is to say: a satisfier; and if something is the Man of today is a know-it-all (without having delved into anything), let's go again to Social Networks: any owner of an account on X or on Instagram knows (And how does he know!) about international politics, South American economy, he knows about football and history, he knows about the conflict in the Middle East, he knows everything: How could he perceive his ignorance?

Thinking had its historical origin, it is not a natural fact, it is thought but not thinking. Nothing should draw our attention to the fact that in the proximity of time Man no longer needs to think because the world (with digital technology at the forefront) will be what he needs it to be. Thinking arose and enjoyed its peak. And nothing indicates that its existence will last beyond a few five-year periods.