Marco Lombardozzi
We live in a dark age. The world has changed in a short time and people are stunned and disoriented. It is before our eyes, it would be foolish to deny it. We do not know where we are going and there is nothing left worth living for and, above all, worth dying for.
The meaning of life has been reduced to a number, that of the bank account. Violence is increasing exponentially, both inside and outside families, but often its roots are formed inside the family and the branches proliferate outside. Mothers and fathers who kill their children and children who kill their parents.
The so-called institutions appear completely unprepared to face this moment, also because they are too often busy acquiring advantages for themselves and, when this is not the case, they are incompetent and unsuited to finding solutions.
No value, except that of money, seems to have any meaning in the lives of the majority of populations who have made well-being the pride of their civilization, but this vaunted well-being has transformed itself into a monster that devours itself, a Saturn that devours its children, as Greek mythology, perhaps prophetically, has told us.
We are uncertain, confused, angry and sad. There are no rules anymore, except those of the financial markets which in truth have never had rules.
Society, understood as the “place” where people live together, is falling apart and crumbling under the blows of money at any cost, power at any cost, as if having money and power should give identity and meaning to our lives. As if water and fire as well as air and earth, which are the fundamental elements of our environment, decided not to exist without money and power. How crazy.
It's as if oxygen and hydrogen, or the essential amino acids that make up our DNA, decided that without money and power they cannot exist. How crazy.
It is the moment in which Cain kills Cain, that is, self-destruction. In this phase the advance of the world of robots and Artificial Intelligence finds an iron logic, without taking anything away from their importance, we cannot ignore that the human being Homo Sapiens seems to be on the way to extinction, and it is not a cliché. What questions does the doctor ask himself in relation to this? What proposals, what alternatives, what treatments for this slow agony of a dying collective being? The answer is a deafening silence and, as Bob Dylan prophetically sang, it blows in the wind.
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