Don’t fall in the trap of the evil ignorance, please! Don’t do that! Ignorance is a damage to every society not its appreciation and praise. Distrust those who use culture as a weapon against their imaginary enemy, and focus your attention on the mistake they do when they quoth immortal books or thoughts changing them in order to make you believe they are prepared, they … Continua a leggere The Labyrinth of Our Discontent
Thinking about the prisons of soul I am looking for infinite spaces even in closed ravines and rowdy of the profound egoisms that surround us. I have dreams to dream, thoughts to create and wings to fly. Pensando alle prigioni dell’anima Cerco spazi infiniti persino negli anfratti chiusi e turbolenti dei profondi egoismi che ci circondano. Ho sogni da sognare, pensieri … Continua a leggere I’m Looking For…
Con tenerezza accolgo questo libro di Riccardo Mazzeo, Bauman e Maggie. Il pensatore e la cagnolina venuti dall’Est (Curcu Genovese, 2019). Con tenerezza, perché senza tenerezza non si può comprendere l’altro, nessun altro, nei momenti di gioia né in quelli di dolore, ma, soprattutto nei momenti di raccoglimento e riflessione che un lutto, un duplice lutto, genera. Ho letto, credo, quasi tutti gli scritti di Riccardo Mazzeo e quasi altrettanto credo … Continua a leggere Riccardo Mazzeo: Bauman e Maggie
I have read in the newspaper that in Naples are opening a room rage where you can go and destroy everything, you also have the possibility to send them by mail the picture of someone you are raged with in order they could print and dispose that picture everywhere in the room giving you the illusion to the destroy with the furniture also the cause of … Continua a leggere Rage Is Never a Game
“Prima dell’inizio, c’erano un uomo e una donna in una lontana città di nome Ilú, Benin City, che forse si amavano e forse no, ma si stavano sposando. Quello che è certo è che lo sposo aveva ottenuto la sposa in cambio di due capre e quattro galline e che la sposa diede presto allo sposo molti figli, la più giovane si chiamava Loveth. Prima dell’inizio, mentre … Continua a leggere Il vento trascina, (Nulla die, 2020)
People are not listening and this is not the worst! People are not listened and they do not listen to their own voice. Such a lack of listening is the cause of the increasing arrogance we refer to each other, but it is not that thanks to the arrogance we listen more, we are just satisfied of our outburst despite it is useless, although it … Continua a leggere People Are Not Listening
Mai come nel tempo in cui viviamo questo breve libro parla di quegli elementi essenziali che spesso dimentichiamo, ma la cui assenza scava la trappola più pericolosa per ogni essere umano: la trappola della mancanza di coscienza e del dovere morale. Dubitare fa bene? (Castelvecchi, 2017) è la domanda che Ágnes Heller pone ad ogni lettore e alla quale lei risponde dicendo che dubitare è … Continua a leggere Ágnes Heller: Dubitare fa bene?
Since we were children we have learnt we needed to protect ourselves from the others; these others that by the time have become the monsters of our future alienated life. I remember once, when I accompanied my elder child to his first day of school, that the first thing a teacher said to the moved and anxious parents waiting outside the corridor was “Did you … Continua a leggere The Shield
What about the time, the time spent with friends, the time dedicated to them putting aside yourself and also forgiving the shortcomings considering them superficial ways of acting and not of being. What happened to that time in which you had believed, hoped, in which you had placed the certainty of having found a friend although imperfect, although selfish, although centered on himself. What about … Continua a leggere In Praise of True Friendship
Ours are nothing but veiled existences because a veil we have worn between us and the truth. It is easy pretending not to see what is there beyond that veil, something that we know well, but that we di not want to recognize, our surrender. In the same act of our pretension we hang another veil out around us to better hide the inconsistence of our … Continua a leggere Veiled Existences
