NOn I knew there was a Apocalypse watch. His hands measure the time that is missing from a total eclipse of our world as we know it. To establish it was the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists In 1947 that, putting together wars, climatic crisis and various threatsin short, all the most dangerous variables that undermine the planet, monitors every year how much it might miss if we don’t intervene to do something.
Needless to tell you that never like this year it is approaching the time x. A truly disturbing hypothesis, but also without the ticking of this diabolical clock we noticed ourselves that things are not going in the right direction. There is an unequivocal signal that each of us can verify even in the absence of scientists and is that thin anguish that assails us when we think about the futureeven if it is only next week.
Anguish is a bad feeling because it suffocates all hope and forces us to close ourselves in ourselves by killing every empathy towards others like a powerful stranger. The most berer policies feed on our anguish and take advantage of this drift.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
Books to turn on hope
Better than me tells it Byung-chul Han In a deep and very current essay Against the Society of Angoscia. Hope and revolution (Einaudi). His analysis is ruthless and punctual: “Where anguish dominates, no freedom is possible … anguish can transform the entire society into a prison” and even endanger democracy.
“Against the Society of anguish. Hope and revolution ”by Byung-Chul Han (Einaudi)
But if the essays do not passionate and you want to recover the same a little hope there is always the book of our Pontiff who is not the case called Hop (Mondadori). But if St. Francis came today to preach poverty and brotherhood would someone still find to listen to it?
“Spera” by Francesco (Mondadori).
A name I can do it for sure and it is Ascanio Celestini author, actor and director of a magnificent theatrical trilogy dedicated to Poor Christs Which is also the title of his new book (Einaudi): a fairytale and touching story that brings together the work of ten years of meetings, interviews and narratives of existences on the margins. Men and women who survive perpetually without a future.
“Poor Cristi” by Ascanio Celestini (Einaudi).
The excluded, towards which following the new prevailing “bad guy” we should no longer feel any feeling of solidaritythey are the protagonists of these poetic narratives: reading their stories is an excellent antidote so as not to lose our humanity and regain hope in a better tomorrow.
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