War and Peace
For many years, looking at the world, we have heard the echoes of distant wars, of deaths that no longer make the news and serve only to swell the statistics. Once we were shocked; we felt disgust and repulsion; we felt fear. Today those feelings seem to have vanished, diluted in the lights and celebrations of a society entirely devoted to the anaesthetic of the world: excess and mindless entertainment. My words may sound exaggerated, yet they are more relevant than one might think. People think of the sea, of nightclubs, of aperitifs, of clothes, of amusements — but almost nothing of the events that define the times we live in. The news reports come and we listen distractedly: nothing truly shakes us, nothing brings our minds and hearts to consider that what other human beings are enduring could, tomorrow, happen to us as well. Meanwhile the political parties continue their mutual apologetics: each tries to pin ideological errors on the others, promoting its own line as the only...
