Voto:
Well, this whole thing about the bad guys doesn't really convince me that much.
It seems more like something that confuses my thoughts.
Lately, I’ve been thinking more about something like The Matrix.
You remember The Matrix?
A thing like The Matrix where instead of machines, there are ideas, the system.
And then the discussions start: it was better this way, it was better before.
Whether it would have been better if Putin had gone to Ukraine or not.
And you tell me I’m too pessimistic.
And that, for example, there used to be slaves and now there aren’t anymore.
You give me an example:
The Egyptians had slaves, the Romans had slaves.
The Europeans had serfs.
The Americans took Africans from Africa.
And now there are no more slaves.
Another thing:
There didn’t use to be all these freedoms and now there are.
One can say whatever one wants, can climb the social ladder, women can vote.
In the end, they’ll probably even legalize soft drugs.
And it’s getting easier to be homosexual.
But I say, until the 1800s, for thousands of years,
Things went that the few dominated the many and the strong over the weak.
And if you weren’t part of the strong powers, there was little you could do.
And now I have to think we’ve taken a different path?
Do you really think that women, without major damage in a few years,
Have eliminated a centuries-old oppression?
I mean, for pages and pages in history books, there’s no trace of them,
And now they are equal to us?
But isn’t it possible that we have both been screwed over twice?
And I tell you because sometimes it seems to me that everything starts from women.
With all the world wars, the atomic bomb, totalitarianism, airplanes, the internet.
The most shocking thing that has happened in the West in the last hundred years
Is precisely the revolution in the relationship between men and women.
And humanity is still completely stunned by this.
And don’t you think there’s a connection between this and the fact that there are fewer families, for example?
Isn’t it true that the family consumes less of you and preserves you more?
And that instead an army of alone men and women,
Young people under forty, spend more money, pay higher rents, buy more mobile phones?
And it’s not that one has to defend the family at all costs.
But it’s also not just the prudes who need to defend the family.
So you tell me about freedom, but I’m not convinced.
Simply because freedom, which has been the scarecrow of all tyrannies throughout the centuries,
Now doesn’t scare but makes money.
So the problem isn’t about how the individual man is doing.
The individual man has always been suffering, actually.
You’re right when you say that now, on average, the individual man in the West is doing better.
The problem is how humanity is doing.
What it can hope for,
What it can aspire to,
What it can dream,
What it can seek.
Because before,
Even if in a dirty, stinky, violent, unruly, disgusting, vulgar, selfish, sick way,
Men were more together, they were more connected,
To themselves, to the earth, to history, and at least to some idea of God.
And that’s no longer there, and I’m not sure it’s a good thing, so I’m scared.
And it’s not that the origin of this thing
Makes me perceive my true antagonists as only flesh-and-blood persons.
I don’t believe in conspiracies, bad people sitting around a table to decide how to destroy us all.
The bad guys exist, but they have always been there, they are just men.
Instead, I imagine something crazier, like even the bad guys have lost control.
You remember The Matrix? Like The Matrix.
Only this time it’s not the machines, it’s just the system.
An avalanche that goes on its own way.
And in the end, I picture Google, the ECB, Obama, the Italian Parliament, Queen Elizabeth,
Imagining them scared like us,
Victims and slaves like you and me
Of something that is immaterial but is in everything, from oppression to distraction.
You remember God? L
