I think at this point we are in a new twist
and that is starting all around the world a reflection
on current disasters, but also on the progress.
How to reduce inequalities without undermining freedom
when we know that 10% the world population
has more than 80% of the wealth available?
What do you do when you have, like me, the feeling
that the great references of tradition were destroyed
and that society does not propose anything new?
I often have the impression
that we can not mourn the past
and nor think about the future.
When we intend to restore the "it was better before,"
we don't do anything but wanting to resurrect corpses
that are mere specters.
Where are, then, happiness, the true life, the good life
and even the possibility of still dreaming of another life?
Where are all these possibilities?
How to get out of simple survival,
of the simple criticism of the present that leads to nihilism
and to the denial of the optimism of the will?
How to get out of this dilemma:
not return to the dead traditions
and not to be limited to the wild consumption,
the boundless joy and the abandonment of any commitment?
I was raised in a world where there was no cell phone,
no computer, no connections of all types,
and neither television comparable to the one we have today.
We wrote letters, we traveled by plane,
but in snail speed,
we could not in any way communicate in real time
with the rest of the world,
men and women lived two different lives,
sex was still quite penalized,
and people died much earlier.
Yet, we often had the impression that life was better,
and if we look more closely,
despite the discourse of self-defeating, it's not true, it was not better.
To rebuild a society of happiness is necessary to take into account
what is positive from what the prophets of doom find abhorrent
in the progress of science, of medicine and communications.
For nothing in the world I would like to return the old world,
but in the same way, I would not want to lose nothing of this ancient world
that is called heritage, culture, transmission.
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