Are we still able to recognize the real beauty? Where are we looking for it whether we are still looking for it? I mean the real beauty, the one which you can suddenly feel yourself free to appreciate even when the nothingness seems to assault everything around you. I mean that kind of beauty which is not made up of arrogance and possession but is … Continua a leggere Able to Recognize Beauty

We continue to talk about femicide, yet we have become accustomed to hearing about it as if we had to touch the subject only when the newspapers report some new episode. Feminicide, however, is not a topic of conversation, not a myth to be told in summer evenings or when you really don’t have anything else to do. Femicide is a daily reality and talking … Continua a leggere Silence Harms

Words are hard as stones, but they have wings to fly. Concrete hardness and freedom together, give good use of words a meaning that transcends the words themselves to make room for the sense of responsibility with which they must be used. Words hurt more than a fist and, like a fist, leave signs that are difficult to erase; at the same time, however, words … Continua a leggere Words are as hard as stones, but they have wings to fly.

No man is illegal. I observe a growing hatred towards diversity, whatever it may be, race, color, religion, culture, genre … this fuels ancient stereotypes with the acquired gravity of a modernity that had posed, or was thought to have done, different premises. It seemed that we had finally come to consider the existence not of a single “center” but of so many centers that … Continua a leggere What Culture Should Say

Yes, but why? Why why! Because dreams do not exist … Macbeth has killed sleep … and no longer we dream with closed eyes or open eyes. Even the attempt to erase blood stains is awkward … it could happen just like Lady Macbeth: no ocean can ever wash them. Our time, at times, really seems to go the way of the cruel lady … … Continua a leggere Macbeth killed the sleep, we kill peace

The picture is from Repubblica.it, Naples, piazza Dante, 30th November 2019 As you probably know, the flux of conscience usually follows simple routes to declare its content, however difficult could be its recognition in the middle of the many different and contrasting voices which try to confuse the essence of your thought. Yet, at last, that essence cannot be hidden longer and it wears the … Continua a leggere Sardines as a Sign of Dissent

Today, contrary to the usual spasm of the news that tears us apart, of the policy that worries us, of the sport that delights us or disappoints us or both together … Today it is good to talk about the heroes of nothingness. The heroes of nothingness are not heroes by accident, like Dustin Hoffman in the movie of the same name. The heroes of … Continua a leggere Heroes

“All animals are equal … but some animals are more equal than others”, a beautiful example of modification of a law by the new powers described by the skillful hand of George Orwell in his unforgettable allegorical fairy tale “Animal Farm”. What does it mean? Why do I use it as an incipit of this reflection? Let’s start with the first question: what does it mean? To … Continua a leggere All Animals Are Equal

It does not hurt to indulge in dreams. Which could also become a question: does it hurt  indulging in dreams? No, it does not hurt to dream, sometimes. Dreaming not to forget the present, not to take refuge in an unreal world, not to pretend that despair and fear do not exist. It is good to allow ourselves to dream to rediscover the possible worlds that we … Continua a leggere I Want to Wake Up Dawn