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Do well, the soul of Italian style that no crisis can steal from us
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Of Claudio Risé
Do well, the soul of Italian style that no crisis can steal from us
Source: Claudio Risé

The search for the good and the beautiful has always been the vocation of our country.
And it generates a unique creativity that makes Franco-German Europe tremble. Also
because it creates a model contrary to globalized production.
The Italy that does and does well is back in great shape, who invents, conquest
markets and friendliness with his intuitions and his free creativity. A
vocation already very strong in Etruscan and Roman times, and what it became
irresistible since the Renaissance, when he inspired an entire philosophy throughout Europe
and way of life. Leonardo da Vinci, the convinced Renaissance artist-scientist
That “Selvadego is the one who saves himself” (to whom this column is dedicated), he was first and foremost a formidable craftsman, and he is one of the major theoretical and practical inspirers of this success story.
It was the silver lyre in the shape of a horse skull designed by Leonardo himself, executed and delivered to Ludovico il Moro as a gift from Lorenzo the Magnificent to win the admiration of the lord of Milan and in
followed by other Italian and European courts. Today, however, Italian creativity worries Europe, or rather its bureaucracy, fearful that the more expansive economic policy adopted by Italy will strengthen its position as a major player
exporter of manufactured goods and food and agricultural products, already very strong on international markets.

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The man who believes himself to be God only generates monsters
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Of Claudio Risé
The man who believes himself to be God only generates monsters
Source: Claudio Risé
A 200 years after Mary Shelley's masterpiece, genetic engineering realizes Doctor Frankenstein's nightmare. Life reduced to the product of technology impoverishes relationships and creates loneliness. And without father or mother the individual increasingly resembles a mummy.
Man not born of a woman but built in a laboratory turns two hundred years old.
A lady from the most cultured and restless English society of the 19th century recounted its birth and dramatic life: Mary Shelley, wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and daughter of the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, liberal philosopher.
Like many surprising insights and discoveries, the idea matured thanks to boredom and not knowing what to do. Mary was with her husband Percy and her half-sister Claire,
guest in a villa on Lake Geneva of his friend Lord George Byron, famous poet, together with Byron's doctor John Polidori. He kept company
Pellegrino Rossi from Carrara leaves, He too, like Byron and Shelley, was a passionate supporter of “sovereignists” of the time: the liberation movements from supranational empires, now in the process of decomposition. Read More

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Effort is good: makes you less stupid. Don't let cars steal it
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Of Claudio Risé
Effort is good: makes you less stupid. Don't let cars steal it
Source: Claudio Risé
Sweat and responsibility are part of life since the labor of birth.
When they try to get rid of it, men and society weaken themselves and yes
they undo. Caesar Augustus and the Benedictine monks had already understood this.
The oldest of fake news, the hardest to die? The one that assures us
that freeing ourselves from fatigue is an extraordinary deal. Indeed the most important of
everyone. Transfer the effort to others, to someone or something that will do it for us
place is the ancient dream of the lazy that slumbers inside us, While
we work. It's also the message of much advertising. But it's about
nonsense, practicable for a short time.
It's this one, for example, the story (told by folk tales throughout the
world, in different ways but with the same moral) of the Prince who exchanges the
his situation with the poor to free himself from his princely labors and
see life from another point of view. Proposal immediately accepted by the other, ben
happy to free himself from the toil of being poor. After some vicissitudes though, Read More

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The West needs rules rather than rights
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Of Claudio Risé
The West needs rules rather than rights
Source: Claudio Risé
The Benedict Option. A strategy for Christians in a post-Christian world
The holy monk from Norcia saved Europe from the decline of the Roman Empire with his "ora et labora". Today Rod Dreher proposes to transform Christian homes into many monasteries to free contemporary civilization from drugs and smartphones.
“Move away from the most followed media. Turn off the television. Put away your smartphones. Read books. Play games. Compose music. Party with your neighbors. It is not enough to avoid what is bad: one must also embrace what is good.” Nonconformism, personal commitment, fidelity to the strong aspects of Western history and thought: these are the inspiring principles of “The Benedict Option. A strategy for Christians in a post-Christian world” (San Paolo editions) di Rod Dreher. The strategy is to transform the homes and meeting places of Christians into monasteries where they live, work, and we pray with the commitment and profound intensity of the Benedictine monasteries. The book, presented in an interview by Martino Cervo on “La Verità” il 31 last August, In recent weeks it has aroused strong interest and unexpected debates throughout Italy. Also because in the meantime the post-Christian world and Church crisis scenario has generated sensational news events. Read More

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How beautiful, the enemy has returned
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Of Claudio Risé
How beautiful, the enemy has returned
Source: Claudio Risé
Breathe fresh air. The words prove it: those repeated to the point of exhaustion decay and to the general amazement old ones return. Drier, irritating, but perhaps even truer. For example, the word enemy is back in vogue, said so, without much fuss. As Donald Trump did from Helsinki, before the meeting with Vladimir Putin, when in an interview with American television CBS he said: “I think the European Union is an enemy. You wouldn't believe it, but Europeans are enemies”. The statement is not presented as a personal matter, even if the large inflated puppet with a Trump-infant with diaper and cell phone in hand, hoisted into the sky for 16 thousand pounds in front of the Parliament in London with the blessing of the mayor Sadiq Khan will certainly have had his part in the matter, as well as the anti-Donald marches in the streets of Helsinki from where the President gave the interview. But Trump reassures: enemies exist, it's not a scandal, nor anything new. On the contrary: “It doesn't mean they're bad.", continued the US president. “It means they are competing with us”. Here again is the child with his scandalous cry that is changing the world: the King is naked.
We are not all friends. But let's not make it a tragedy. It was the story they told us before that was a farce. The displeased European establishment then immediately intervenes with heartfelt denials and firm condemnations, as per the script: the President of the EU Council, Donald Tusk assures us that no! “The US and the EU are excellent friends! Anyone who says they are enemies spreads fake news”, brandishing the most used and worn cliché of the moment to try to fix everything. In reality the fake news, lasted far too long, it's the one that: “we are all friends”. The absolute novelty is the great return of the linguistic category, affective and cognitive of the friend-enemy, which has always presided over human life, to relationships between people, and of course also between states. Well yes: It's true that we don't always love each other; but there's nothing wrong with that and there's no need to make a big deal out of it. Generally, as Puer Robustus says Donald Trump is simply because “we are competing”: better to admit it, rather than cheating the cards. Read More

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A country with a brain in smoke (of cannabis)
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Of Claudio Risé
A country with a brain in smoke (of cannabis)
Source: Claudio Risé
A country with its head in smoke: This is one of the emergencies that the new government will have to face, without wasting too much time. On the consumption of cannabis and its derivatives, marijuana and hashish, Italy is at the top of the charts. His young people (dai 15 ai 34 years) they joint the 6% more than the European average; and this also leads to peaks in smoking and alcohol consumption. A sick youth appears, weak, insecure, scared. Anyone who works with teachers knows this well: Accompanying pupils on school trips is now at multiple risks, illnesses among children, complaints from hoteliers, accidents and unforeseen events of all kinds, not always without deaths, then told in the news. But adults don't joke either: here too we are at 32% against the 26% of EU average. Contrary to the slogan dear to the elites: “the joint does nothing” (and the psychedelic painter Matteo Guarnaccia already made a cartoon about it in the 1990s: “who knows how bored he is”), all this smoke leaves traces first and foremost in hospitals: il 15% of new users end up in treatment for panic attacks and out-of-control states. Also because people don't even know what they smoke: the THC level increased by more than 10% in 10 years. If there is a borderline situation, on the border between psychosis and “normality”, with a couple of joints it suddenly slips where it shouldn't (and “royalty”). Read More

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It is the sleep of aggression that generates bullies
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Of Claudio Risé
It is the sleep of aggression that generates bullies
Source: The Truth
It is a sign of pain expressed by the words and gestures of bullies. They are signs of anger or desperation, not words with meaning. They don't have those yet, they never had them. However, it's not really for the grade in the register that they beat the professor, or because they really hate their weakest companion to death that they wipe the slate clean with his t-shirt. Technically these are “acting out”, actions that come from deep unhappiness, in an existence devoid of motivating structures and orientations. Awareness and speech are not there. If anyone could really listen to their anger, their unhappiness, in that sinking backwards into personal and collective regression (which affects us all in different ways), perhaps he would hear a cry for help, of meeting.
Feeling it is difficult for us today because we are horrified and afraid of naked aggression. Even if that dripping gel of talk shows then captures us, or of politicians, when it is served to us as a show to attract our attention. Thus flattering and nourishing our worst parts: vulgar and violent like theirs, but also an expression of the club of established aggressive players. However, they do not recognize any kinship between themselves and those bullies who have no words and no worldly habits. Read More

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