Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
No.We have not experienced the terrible medieval feuds between Guelphs and Ghibellines and lords of every contrada in struggle with each other of Dante’s memory, History with its centuries-old conflicts appears faded to us, yet never before does humanity seem divided to us.
The now unbearable economic differences create deep cracks in civil life and climate and energy emergencies only increase hostilities among the inhabitants of the earth more and more numerous and dissatisfied.
Sovereignties and nationalisms find fertile ground in this global suffering useful for propaganda and spread like wildfire as if they were new religions. At the beginning of the third millennium, brotherhood between peoples seems a distant chimera and it is fear that prevails over the hope of a better future.
Yet the secret of existence and above all of survival on this planet lies not in the struggle and oppression as Darwin believed, but in the symbiosis and in the Metamorphosismagic word and title of the latest work for Einaudi by Emanuele CocciaItalian philosopher translated all over the world who with this fascinating essay tells us who we are more than many political manuals.
“Metamorphosis” by Emanuele Coccia (Einaudi).
Navigating with a brilliant pen between zoology, botany, linguistics and literature, Coccia gives us a new vision of humanity and reminds us that every living thing is the reincarnation of the Earth. We are the result of metamorphosis, life is metamorphosis and any form of life is nothing but the transformation of a life that preceded it and prepares it for other lives.
We are all flesh of the same flesh regardless of the corner of the planet we come from and we have always breathed in unison with the plants and animals that populate our common world. “Life is but a cosmic unity that holds the matter of the Earth in a carnal intimacy.”
Just as the caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, we too continually transform and need each other to progress.. The social and political divisions that we have imposed between bodies are “unnatural” and only decisions that take into account this uninterrupted flow of energy that we have always shared will have the opportunity to positively affect our future. Recommended book for rulers of all latitudes.
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