“Sooner or later the collapse will take place and then, of course, something will have to be invented”. In the documentary by Marc Bauder awarded at Locarno 2013, Master of the universe, Rainer Voss, “ruthless” former German financial trader, worked for that market that now seem to command everything: “I know that I will depress everyone with this story but probably a much worse crisis will come. Certainly the finance’s market alone won’t learn from its mistakes, but people can stop it…”
Crimini d’odio, legiferare il fallimento (Hobbes aveva ragione)
Leggi che inaspriscano le pene per i crimini d’odio sono considerate avanzate. Ma cambiando prospettiva, una società che necessiti interventi normativi del genere dimostra tutta la sua debolezza. Se bisogna per forza specificare che la discriminazione etnica, di genere, preferenza sessuale e religiosa è da condannare, vuol dire che qualcosa non va. E per quanto il lavoro dei legislatori possa essere apprezzabile, è al tempo stesso sintomo del fallimento del senso di comunità…
Italy, best country in complaint
In Italy we’re doing what comes naturally, the complaint. For us complaining is a mono or dia-logical outburst over the impatience that comes from seeing that nothing goes as it should… day by day. The problem is that often we do absolutely nothing the change the situations we don’t like. We must also say that we’re very self-critical, when progress occur we aren’t able to see it, but this is the other side of the coin…
Is the unreal really unreal? (Or about post-truth)
Is unreal really unreal if, strongly believing in it, affects our lives? This could happen in many ways. Religion, economics & finance, politics, they all rely on fleeting bases of faith and trust. But they make the world turn, no matter if they right or wrong…
Good luck, and poor sons
Today I asked myself: why have I been shaped for a world that doesn’t exist?
I have no way to contribute to society in the way that’s more congenial to me because I haven’t a job.
On the other hand, I have a “curriculum vitae” that I couldn’t even write, let alone work.
I’m 31, I’ve been studying for more than 16 years, working for 10, done 22 different jobs, 19 “blacks” and 3 reals, regular ones and everything I mean, most of all paid.
I’m a journalist…
Females who have no choice: the phenomenon of the wives and mothers girls
“Sanna, Indian, married at 31, after a master, with a younger man, didn’t have to provide a dowry, although the family is Muslim”. This is the stereotype and what Giulia Vallese (UNFPA) says about one of the few success stories about the little-discussed issue of child brides and mothers, described in the last report (2013) […]
Globalization of walls
“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took into his hand to say ‘this is mine’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had someone pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow man: ‘do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!”…
Lord Lhus, American, European, International
Far from the superiority complex of most Americans when it comes to rap, Lord Lhus is co-founder of the international collective Empty Handed Warriors with Unknown Mizery and the Dutch men Psl, Rob Ster and Cerebros, of the Rotterdam label Eastgarden Music. The movement got bigger, with members that goes from Iran to Slovakia and it’s ready to gather artists in many ways to build a worldwide community…
Stanley’s war
War movies follow usual outlines, blending together action, heroism, sacrifice, emotions. Because they work better if there’s a good vs evil dichotomy in which you can relate. Not Kubrick ones. In Stanley’s war there aren’t good ones…
Marinaleda, a socialist Utopia
Marinaleda is a small town in Sevilla district, 2700 inhabitants, where social economy reached a level that socialism preached but never realized. It all started with the land reform of the end of the Seventies, after Franco’s dictatorship…