In contemporary times we replaced the freak shows… with other freak shows. Sure, now is nothing like a human zoo, this tv shows aim to talk about medical conditions and increase awareness about the challanges for a “normal” integration in everyday life. But the reactions of the audience is still the same of 100 or 200 years ago…
You don’t have to be happy (by force)
How many stereotypes do you face in Inside Out? First of all, “in life you have to be happy”. When ever. In life, at best, you have to aspire to happiness, but if bad things happen, and they happen, it’s really useless, damaging, suppressing what they make us feel…
Humans vs animals
Humans vs animals, a dichotomy old as the evolution. A brutal behavior is still labeled as “beastly”, on the other hand animalists say that those “beasts” are better than humans. We put a lot of efforts to distinguish: we use bathrooms, we write, articulate words, we dress and make art. But deep down we got the same instinct: eat, reproduce, defend the territory. It’s always like a final step is missing…
Amy Winehouse, the bad luck of becoming famous
Amy felt like a bomb. Like it was amplified. As if words came from pain alone. As if she tried all the improvised, but only if it hurts, as if she should love without thinking who actually contributed to killing her. Because she actually hated herself, loving only those who could destroy her…
Laziness moves the world
We could say that laziness and technology go along. Technology, infact, answers to many needs making life more comfortable – or at least tries to – in a cause/effect concatenation. The lazy one desires improve technology, which make us even lazier. Is that the price to pay to progress? Well, each one of us has to find his own limit…
The sea, the book and internet
The Swedish writer Bjorn Larsson can’t believe. Why any journalist, since he published his first book The true story of the pirate Long John Silver, always asks him the same question: “How and how much does the sea inspire your writing?” This stubborn curiosity, which annoyed him at first, like all those questions to which it’s […]
Atheism in religious wars
Atheism, in religious wars, is even more despised than the rival cult. In the eyes of extremists, any rival would be better, as at least he believs in something. The “wrong” god, sure, but with a moral. Preconcepts are at their lowest rate in scandinavian countries, where atheism is more scattered. Because knowledge is always the best antidote. Not having a religious ethic doesn’t mean not having an ethic at all, Humanism should have thaught a little something…
Maam, art from outer space to Roma
Nihil difficile volenti, “nothing is difficult for those who desire it” The Latin motto becomes a warning here. A long reportage on one of the most unique museums in the world, Maam – Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere of Metropoliz in Roma, and its residents…
If women had the power and ruled the world
If women had power and ruled the world, there will be peace and social justice. It would be true if everybody was like Benazir Bhutto or Aung San Suu Kyi. But the reality is more complex, of course not every woman is the same and the few examples we had (Thatcher, Condoleezza Rice and so on) suggest that nothing would change. A totally different thing would be talking about the inequalities of women in access, opportunities and payment…
A tattoo is forever
When we say that a tattoo is for ever, we really mean it. Removal operations aside, the discovery of tattoed up mummies showed how the ink survives better than the skin thousend of years after the death. Embalming procedures are less frequent nowadays, of course, so “for ever” is limited to the life of the person who decides to decorate his or her body, until decay overcomes…