TEACHINGS FOR A NEW ERA - Politics

Vi ho detto che non esiste un settore chiamato 'politica'
Tutto lo è, nella polis

(HD) - A mission getting us nowhere
(August 1, 2009 - In English)

The only apparent, clear outcome was the establishment of a new regular government in 2002. Even after this, the young Muslims provided with guns and hand-grenades kept shooting and killing in retaliation. The most intelligent had never thought that the life of 2,900 people in a skyscraper would be redeemed by a stupid slaughter in another area of the Earth. Please, read again the pages that I wrote since September 2001 by explaining the kind of foolishness inspiring those campaigns. One of the most absurd things of all times is the Taliban resistence even to a ceasefire and a peace agreement, because many of them enjoy shooting and fighting an enemy (like it happened in Chechnya). Now they wouldn't give up so easily opposing to enemy forces. It's like an innate endowment, that Bush's policies revived.

(HD) - The true presidents will never be candidates - What's a true president like?
(August 3, 2009 - In English and Italian)

This video arrived only after midnight, at the end of a dark day.
My face was partially wrapped in darkness, but you can view it better if you stand up and look into your screen from a higher position. FAQ. All that in a soft voice? Yes, I spoke close to my usual microphone. FAQ. Are you still using your headset? I'm still using that, a microphone with headphones attached, because I really haven't found any better yet.

After the Honduran shake-up, a question hangs over our future
(August 21, 2009 - In Spanish)

The absence of widespread concern perhaps was caused by the limited influence of the country. The reasons for an unexpected end of the presidential term, however, seemed disproportionate. This is what we learned, of those events. If there's something more, that suddenly forced them into removing him, we have never known. What do you mean by 'election by acclamation'? A country experiencing unanimity in appointing one man, the most suitable of all. It's a very easy thing to do. What are the points of reference of your evaluation of a presidency? When I say one president is not up to the office, I'm referring to the thousands who are and can't hold it.

(HD) - The lack of a center in our institutions
(September 8, 2009 - In English)

DEAD PLACES
Those places suffered from a lack of a center, which often made those teachings irrelevant in the life of a young student. Tell them what a place with a center is. Think of a mosque. That is a place where hundreds of Muslim people gather, addressing their body toward a center. Think of a theatrical scene, a stage where a group of actors play a role. Universities are instead casual places where no one can be found when he's needed and none of those enrolled can find a human-like environment. Was that a university? The opening images are taken in the faculty of philosophy, in Genoa, at the entrance. The second building is part of the faculty of languages. And, of course, you'll say once again... There was no one. A desert. These were places that kept us at a distance. There were spirits only in the first half of the past century. Later they were attended by few only for reasons of prestige, but those holding a chair rarely went there. We hardly ever saw them. Some question the need for a center. Any decent place in the world has a center. If I go into one shop I find the sales clerk or the owner, in a travel agency I find an operator on a desk working before a screen, if I run a course of astrology I'm everytime available. Only universities are no man's lands, where you can hold the office without attending the place. They made and make use of those institutions only to have the title (of professor) or the qualifications for a job. On Memoriale you said that philosophy died in the early eighties. Right. And this was one of my best pages. The best explanation of why a matter can no more be taught. In this video your shirt collar appeared folded. It's an unexpected detail, that I noticed after recording. I didn't find it indecent, anyway. It might also come into fashion, in an informal context. In this video, the reader notices more than in others a rail covered with rust. Would you like it to be perfect, while describing such a great decay of culture?

PER CHI NON HA CAPITO. Se lo Stato costruisce un palazzo (università) per insegnarvi venti discipline, è normale che queste abbiano un titolare e che per ognuna venga riconosciuto un titolo a coloro che passano un esame. Ma se gli insegnamenti constano solo di qualche ora sparsa di lezione, fissata senza destinatari, e di interrogazioni mancherà qualsiasi relazione tra docenti e allievi. Questi ultimi, poi, perderanno completamente il senso unitario e sociale di ciò che si fa nel palazzo stesso. Essi prenderanno le cose solo per ciò che servono, perché altrettanto hanno visto fare ai docenti.

The Afghan presidential election: the same old story
(September 12, 2009 - In English)

PER CHI NON COGLIE. Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2006 non furono che una delle tante di una serie drammatica, cominciata nel novembre 2000 con le presidenziali americane. Da allora, ogni consultazione elettorale sa di muffa e di un passato da superare. Un responso dato dai numeri di tante schede è la cosa più precaria che possa esistere. Eppure nel regno della 'democrazia' era stato creato perfino un dizionario, un gergo con tutta la terminologia del caso (Berlusconi fu tra coloro che più ne bevvero). Gli Stati spendono cifre favolose per mandare qualcuno in Parlamento o per dire semplicemente che 'deve governare Tizio'. E' probabile che in fondo agli uomini risieda perfino un senso di vergogna nel pervenire a una semplice acclamazione del tipo: "Caio è il più grande! Ci presiederà lui". Lo facevano ancora nel Medioevo, quando erano un'altra razza. Oggi non lo fanno più. E così le vere autorità si celano, in ogni nazione della Terra.

(HD) - What or who is worth a visit
(September 20, 2009 - In Italian)

Andate da chiunque!!! Liberatevi del protocollo. Andate da chi ritenete giusto andare! Non è un obbligo fare una visita alle istituzioni.
Le istituzioni dipendono solo da noi. Se non funzionano, sono gli uomini che non sanno farle funzionare. Dobbiamo affrancare la politica internazionale dalle visite ufficiali di Stato, anch'esse come un rudere privo di significato. Ecco, intendevo dire che queste formalità di rito dovrebbero pian piano scomparire. Chi va all'estero dovrebbe andare dove ha interesse a fare una visita, a prescindere dalle istituzioni. Dovremmo oggi abituarci all'idea che un presidente della Repubblica visiti uno Stato estero recandosi direttamente a casa di un professore o di un archeologo anziché nel palazzo presidenziale di un suo collega. Quando ci abitueremo a questo, anche qui celebreremo tutti insieme l'entrata nella Nuova Era.

The smart weapons
(October 24, 2009 - In English)

With the human resources we've been given by nature, there are still people using conventional weapons and fire-arms.

Can there be a nuclear strategy?
(April 21, 2010 - In English)