THE SENSE OF OUR BEING IN THE WORLD
Reflections on two generations compared
I take up a sentence from the article published on this blog last Friday: the authors wondered if the meaning of our being in the world is a series of mandatory steps (education, work, marriage, children) and ways of being prepackaged, to be followed slavish…
WE WANT TO RIP LINES BADLY…
Some thoughts about the series “Strappare lungo i bordi” by Zerocalcare
November 2021: On Netflix is inserted “Strappare lungo i bordi”, Zerocalcare’s animated series, a famous Roman cartoonist. This miniseries traces the life of the author, over the eight episodes proposed, touching cross-cutti…
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
“Imagination and memory are the only means I have to escape from my diving bell”.
It is this sentence that prompted me to write a few lines on a very difficult subject but worthy of further study. It is pronounced by the protagonist of the film “The diving bell and the butterfly”, based on the aut…
SQUID GAME
Squid Game is a South Korean TV series that has been hugely successful worldwide.
The plot is as simple as it is cruel: many people, 456, participate in a series of games for children with the aim of earning a lot of money knowing that there will be only one winner. Those who are eliminated w…
“NORMAL PEOPLE”… TESTS OF SEPARATION
Breaking up and keep loving each other
Forced, unfortunately, by the quarantine, I spent the Christmas holidays in house. To try to survive boredom, thanks to the suggestion of a friend, I watched the TV series Normal people in one breath. The series starring teenagers fascinate me a lot…
FAIAH. J AND THE ABILITY TO REACT
It’s been a while since I want to write something about Faiah El Degwy, 25 year old (more or less) Italian-Egyptian, to date 61,8 thousand followers on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/faiah.j/, 118,233 on facebook https://www.facebook.com/FaiahElDegwy, rapper, specialized doc…
SOME THOUGHTS ON SCHOOL DROPOUT
During and after the lockdown, we “fortunately” began to talk about school, about the problems of teaching, the tools and methods of teaching, the reality that students live and the importance of the school for them. Especially with the use of distance teaching, the theme of school dropouts has…
Politically correct: thoughts on a society that wants to eliminate the dialectic about sexuality
I read with great interest the article published on this blog last week by four students. I don’t want to focus on the central topic of the article, which in my opinion deserves more in-depth analysis and maybe even a discussion with them, but I have grasped its intelligence.
In that article stude…
HOW DO YOU FEEL? FACE-TO-FACE WITH EXAM STUDENTS ON PANDEMIC SITUATION AND MENTAL HEALTH
Teenagers and covid-19: asking for help is perhaps the secret.
The 2020-2021 period had to win the struggle with the mental-health taboo, because the diffusion of the Covid-19 had expanded the necessity of approaching this argument in our time with more bravery. We want to reflect on this.
In o…