We all know how the elections went in America.
With less than a month of results, while I try to imagine the consequences that Trump’s policy will bring, to distract me from certain thoughts comes to the rescue the outgoing President Joe Biden:
“We have provided Ukraine with missiles capable of hitting Russian territories, and we have authorized them to use them” which is a bit like those catchy phrases you hear in action movies when the hero of the day comes on stage armed to the teeth and exclaims
“I have a bazooka with me, and I’m not afraid to use it!”
Now, let’s say that Biden does not like to lose and he did not take well the (maybe late!) replacement in the race, suppose that the night had slept badly and that the eggs were not cooked in the morning or even finished the butter, add also that the age is there but…
The Europe of struggles for rights and the oldest and longest-lived democracies in the world, how does it respond?
He speculates on the return of conscription, increases military spending, the Scandinavian states recommend keeping enough supplies to stay safe in bunkers and I keep thinking how all this is still possible, I find myself in the study listening to stories, thoughts and dreams (which are always thoughts, but without consciousness) of boys who do not seem to know practically a club!
Come on, what’s the war about?
What anguish, let me turn to the other side?
Maybe, so everyone disappears?
Difficult to say, clear that every story is to itself, but if we are all part of the human race, as much as each can be distracted (destroyed?) by his things does not seem possible that such a mess can make shoulders..
I hear and read processes to younger boys, how they do not have the same “commitment” of previous generations, how they are distant from politics and “real life” as they are immersed in social, but just see how America has attracted, Bewitched and seduced millions of people with the rhetoric of his dream, with the promise of success earthly provided to engage in hard work (anything but fables about eternal life!) because the story of “work makes free” lose much of its appeal.
My father is never at home, he takes turns..
My mother is exhausted, late at work and then she gets mad at me because I’m not excellent at university..
Everyone makes sacrifices for me, and I’m afraid to disappoint everyone..
You don’t know but to me more than dreams they seem.. nightmares!
And indeed the “liberal US model” for over a century fed on slaves to become the first economic power in the world, exploiting European immigrants fleeing wars, famines and monarchies, they who were British subjects until the war of Independence, has in fact equated the search for better living conditions to achieve better economic conditions by commodification and debasing what is more intimate and deep characterizes the human world
The ability to dream and imagine
To seek confirmation and build relationships
To resist when you are little so that you can refuse as a grown-up
Is it for this reason that the research on dreams has been reduced over time to a lazy sister, a waste of time dedicated to art, of the most pragmatic and “useful” organic psychiatry that sees only behavior?
If all this seems so difficult to oppose, however, I think it is also because those who promised to fight for the oppressed declaring themselves against every form of war (you know, the left.) faces today the war as the one who thinks weaker, siding with the stronger!
But I don’t think it’s all lost.
But is it not that the many guys who try to rebel in some way sometimes even making big mess and paying salty prices should be deeply understood and listened rather than judged and sedated?
The answer to give them is that there is a world made of images and affections that sometimes maybe gets sick, but it has nothing to do with a driveway and a garage where families grow perfectly… anaffective?
I know, it seems paradoxical but…
Dream and awake?
Marco Randisi
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