When we decided to create this page once in a name, "Youth with Ideals", however, the reality of this name hides a depth that is often overlooked. Having an ideal is to have a gesture of the spirit that craves some perfection, is the longing of personal excellence. This does not come from nothing, but they deserve an intensive effort of reflection. Appear, when "thinking" takes this development that the imagination can anticipate the experience, ie imagine something beyond our present reality. The ideals may not be "truths" are beliefs, dreams, desires ... The majority of people tend to characterize the idealism as "morbid fantasies or ignorant minds." But no fear, we can say that they are wrong. ideals are much more important than they seem, are the force that influences our actions, to the extent that what we believe, we believe with passion. But ideals do not remain unchanged, since the average human experience expands, observing reality, ideals are changing and shaping. We must rediscover the importance of the imagination because it is the mother of originality and creativity. It is she who creates the ideal and gives them momentum. Idealism is not characteristic of any particular religion or any social movement. Because it is the desire for perfection of every person in the knowledge of truth, which should motivate all human beings, whatever their characteristics or beliefs.
The idealist romantic or sentimental: this, prefer the flower to the fruit, leaving aside the flower could not ever exist without the seed. That is, they believe that dignity is within the dream and passion and ideals are illusions, the result of emotions. His argument is in the heart, have these "reasons the heart that reason ignores. " 
In today's culture tends to prioritize the pleasure and fun, above all things: "Do what you like" is the theme ... but this is not new. In the history of Greece, in Cyrenaica, 4 centuries BC Aristippus, announced that the only rule of life was pleasure maximum sought by all means. The sensuality governing the system, would lead to pleasure but without selecting it (now sometimes seems new, is older than the badge). The consequence was that the people there came to despise life itself, its last defenders in promoting and praising the suicide. What happens is that pleasure can not sustain a moral. Then a new character, Epicurus, as distinct from Aristippus, because this all worth and seek pleasures without brakes, in contrast to Epicurus, must be chosen and built by a stamp of harmony. From this, they use the real idealists.
Epicateto (another man of Greece) taught to distinguish between it depends on us and what is not depends, it is essential to the idealist, the ideal place to be as dependent on Him, not to fall into depression that "can not do anything."
On the other hand, to conceive of a perfection is essential to a certain level of ethics and intellectual education. Without them you can have fanaticism and superstition, but not ideal.
The idealist has the strength of his convictions reflectively acquired. The idealist thinks and strives for perfection, which does not involve the whole, just so long the firm intention to march towards it.
mediocre man:
say a man is more mediocre near the most excellent animal, than an idealistic man. Features:
· The poor tend to confuse common sense with common sense. Common sense is collective, retrograde, and dogmatism, the sense is personal, innovative, and original.
· Men without personality. Personality begins at the precise point where each one is different from others. Men with no personality, are innumerable and vegetate shaped by the media. They are incapable of initiative and endurance. They suffer all the influences, high, low, big or small. The inability to do evil, they confuse it with the virtue of doing good. However, it is useless to look for them, but lots abound, no one would admit having no personality, all have it and believe very own (myself included).
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· Men can only be defined in relation to their society, and social function. Balance confused with passivity, the mediocre man is tamed by society.
• The personality of each individual is the product of 2 factors: heredity (genetics) and education (social environment in which it develops) these conditions, but not determine, for we have freedom reigns. The number of adjustments to each individual to his environment, depends on what mimics and inventing. The poor man is characterized simply by imitating the idealist seeks to create. One thinks with head of society, the other with his own. The genius is original and creative projects from the social routine. All men of strong personality and creative mind is hostile to mediocrity.
• The poor are characterized by an inability to form an ideal, a perfection of design. Suspect that there is not infinite but has its horizons, but have their noses. Do not live for themselves, but rely on the opinion of others. Their poverty is reinforced by the quantitative people.
• For the mediocre thinking is nonsense, is insolent dignity, sense of justice, sincerity foolish, reckless admiration, passion, innocence, virtue, stupidity.
• In certain moments ideal dare call their appetites, like instant gratification could be confused with perpetual perfection. The appetites get fed, ideals ever. The ideal man without a job makes art, science, trade, an instrument of philosophy, virtue a company, charity, party, pleasure, a sensuality. The routine is the area where he stops thinking. They are docile and malleable to public opinion. Circumstances may make them scholars, but data is not learn to swallow.
· Call ideals to their concerns, not realizing that they are opinions without trial. Represent common sense, ignoring the right direction. Grow and die like plants. Do nothing to dignify his true self, striving only to inflate his social ghost. It is easier to ridicule a sublime action to imitate. His way of highlighting is discrediting the actions of others because they can not fend for themselves, need constantly compare they do not know who you really are.
• The poor man has a huge appetite: success (even if not deserved). They know that there is something far more superior and sublime holiness. The popularity has dangers, when you nail the eyes for the first time in a person and echo the applause, you can start a direct dependence of such a thing. It is difficult to resist the temptations of applauded but must be put farther hopes to conquer holiness. The success is the spirit of the fighting, the first drunk, then it becomes necessary.
• The moral of the poor is characterized by hypocrisy. Without faith in any belief, the hypocrite profess the most profitable to himself. Creating a reality without reasonable basis. Faith and morals go hand in hand, but the hypocritical beliefs dance to your convenience. The hypocrite does not aspire to be virtuous, but to be so. Cowardice to fail, not committed to any value judgments but relativize everything.
· Value solidarity by simple social recognition, not by a deep conviction. At the bottom selfishness reigns. They have no real friends, but by different interests, are utilitarian and opportunistic. Multiplied by a thousand what they give, and divide by a million what they accept.
· Find that evil is not in things themselves but in appearance, forming a moral for themselves and another for others. As the woman who claims to have 3 honest but loving and repudiates his son's lies.
· I forgot that there is no effortless perfection. They have no fear of the evil in itself, but the disapproval of others.
In the history of humanity always the masses were neither idealists nor stupid, but the mediocre. Today cultural massification put much more force in the decisions of people and especially young people, who long ago. The media, they control everything ... since the democratic elections to the fashion trends ... It is beyond the role of media in the lives of people. So it becomes stronger and grows more mediocrity. Given this, we from our humble place, and encouraging reflection, we want to encourage young people to live for an ideal. Possibly a greater effort, but it is time to react. Possibly the mediocre
read this and continue their lives as before, no matter, our interest is to raise the idealists who are today being asleep.
How mediocre and how idealistic you think?
(Most of the ideas in this article are taken from the book "Poor Man" by Jose Ingenieros)
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