Many children can no longer play in parks, why? Because there are drug dealers in the parks and these drug dealers are left where they are. The government is interested in arresting activists but does not arrest drug dealers who sell drugs at all hours of the day. In the parks you can find syringes on the ground, you can no longer spend a few hours relaxing in nature because all these people are there and deal. But the government doesn't seem to see them at all. The Italian government only sees activists trying to get people talking about the damage the climate is doing to all agriculture and the environment. The government is not interested in knowing how many people are in danger from landslides or river floods. The government is only interested in the activists to be arrested because they throw natural paints on the monuments or charcoal in the fountains. Are these things more harmful than people dealing drugs in every park in every city and country?
When drug dealers are arrested they are in jail for two days and then they get out and are free again and go again to deal drugs in the same places, as if nothing had happened. They are allowed to do whatever they want, anywhere, in the streets, parks, squares, anywhere. Citizens can no longer stay in parks, they can't take their children to play, they can't enjoy nature. This government does not think about the citizens. This government thinks only of activists. The scammers are free, the drug dealers are free and the activists are all in jail. Evidently this government has a somewhat strange idea of what are the priorities of citizenship and citizens' lives.
I'd like to see happy children playing in the parks, smelling the flowers, running and having fun without being afraid of syringes in the meadows. On the other hand, children can no longer play in parks and I find this unfair and all administrations and governments should worry about the future of these children who can no longer play outdoors and cannot socialize. So why not put the drug dealers in jail and leave the activists alone? Activists are teaching us to think more about the climate, nature and the environment. They do it in an extreme way, it's true, but the message is the right one and the government should stop keeping real criminals free and clean up the parks of all this crap that we have to see every day in our cities, which have now become their territory , where criminals rule and not the police.
I find myself wondering if really the society that man has built and is building, the technology he has developed, the answers of science, the law that protects us ... I wonder if really the wild life in the jungle is more cruel . Perhaps it is inherent in some men, that thought that creeps in and constantly suggests the echo of the so-called "golden age", but reading the newspapers, listening to the news, trying to understand why politics is so complicated since be made "on a human scale" - and certainly the average man (but I doubt that even politicians talk like that, in the absence of their lawyers ...) says so - it's hard to believe that an existence should in which it is clear in mind who to escape and who to trust (run away from the lion, caress the rabbit) is so terribly aberrant, compared to a society where you have everything you want, but a huge restlessness and the rotten blood.
Yes of course, if I woke up tomorrow in the midst of brambles and brushwood and had to run away from the hungry lion, I would be dead in less than half a minute, and surely having to pick berries to feed myself I would regret any supermarket.
But, here, I am not trying to say that man is demonic in nature or that progress is negative. I am only expressing my personal personal in realizing that this jungle we are in now is terrifying: an incomprehensible politics in which we, poor game, cannot understand the mechanisms or even glimpse them, a society that makes us stressed even on vacation , a collective anxiety, information that becomes a collective forum of opinions, subjectivity that becomes law, if you have enough power to buy a few journalists and have the right connections. Values become the object of ridicule and bullying, of the psychological one, of the slightly bad one. The believer becomes a bigot, "health-conscious" is almost a negative term, women are whores or puritans, drugs are a common good, the mafia is our neighbor, we eat antibiotics directly in the meat of the supermarket.
I'm allowed to doubt progress, but I'm not shocking enough to consider only one side of the coin.
What scares me is the human mind, the culture. it has always managed to survive: the inquisition, the censorship, the world wars. Even in Nazi prisons and concentration camps, the culture survived.
Will it survive the internet? Will he survive a world so hectic, so fast, so cruel, so ambiguous? to a jungle with rules expressed in decrees? If wikipedia tomorrow said that Napoleon never existed, that man is actually a bird, that gravity allows us to change color.
culture can really survive all of this, as the holders of classical music go to war with each other and are beaten by any pianist, writers scramble their strenuous writings to the most, beaten by teenage novels that will appear as best seller next to anna karenina and the leopard, painters and sculptors are ignored because the guy who ties a dog in a museum or who places himself as a sculpture is more "audience" and art critics talk about it more.
I am concerned about the voice of humanity: is it strong enough to withstand even this silent war? Or is this not a war, and this oppression, this anguish, this evil of living will remain a worldwide constant, and only a few will come out of it, like crazy astronauts?
Margoth Escobar was at a friend’s birthday party in the town of Puyo in the Ecuadorian Amazon last September when a neighbour called to say her house was on fire. The blaze destroyed her home and more than $50,000 worth of artisanry that she and other women planned to sell over Christmas. The local fire department said it was an act of arson against Escobar, who belongs to Mujeres Amazonicas, a collective of mostly indigenous women who have banded together to defend their land and the environment against oil extraction and mining. It was one of several alarming attacks against members of the collective in Ecuador last year, amid a broader trend of threats, smear campaigns and physical violence against women human rights defenders across South America. Putting aside her distrust of Ecuador’s police and justice system, Escobar filed a criminal complaint at the regional Attorney General’s Office in October. She has not been granted protective measures, despite the risk her activism brings and the attack already suffered.
THE PRODIGY OF IDEAS 