| The crab's
thought (Jun 2000) What the crab thinks in his hole-garden.
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| The crab's
thought (Jun 2000) What the crab thinks in his hole-garden.
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| When I go walking sometimes along a town street, may
be I run into one of my acquaintances. It's difficult I could meet with a
friend, since I have only one or two of them in the world. Your acquaintance
always acquaints you while you difficulty identificate him. Some discreet
people ignore you, seeing you ignoring them. Only simple words as buon
giorno, buona sera, hi, ghiasù, bon soir, buenas tardes, can be
interchanged between you and your neighbours. But some people can't give
up stopping you and telling you a set of tree or four questions and, before
you can answer, providing you every news about their dull life, as if they
could be resounding and amusing events. They forgot that they reported the
same things last year and that nothing has been changed in the meantime.
I have to confess this kind of guys are very annoying for me. I love more
those reporting me gossips about neighbours or those submitting their most
important problems to me in order that I could resolve them. I can't indeed,
but at least I can practise my analysis capability with them. When, on the
countrary, someone come to tell me he has no problems, he is very happy of
his retired life with his hobbies and his wonderful childs and grandchilds,
then I can get angry. It seems he came down from the not existing best of
possible worlds and it's clear to all people that he wants either to arouse
my envy or to challange me to see if I'm more happy than him. But my conscience
convinced me to reject similar challanges, because I use to look around me,
to try to be a world citizen, to regret the human - and my - stupidity that
prevents us from strongly facing the real world problems... including my
problems.
More than one time somebody sets out an offensive (in my opinion) hypothesis
about the italian unemployment. They say that several jobs are available
but young people are not ready for them. I don't know which data this hypotesis
is based on. It may be they thought what moderate people recently discovered:
a very high illitteracy rate (30%?!). Or else some subtle doctor understood
that new technolgy requires a steady educational updating. So the diagnosis
is simple. You young people are not ready for new jobs. Honestly they should
add: it's difficult you can be ready at any instant. Having the government
expressed this opinion a new big effort should be done in order to actuate
an effective educational public program. But in the meantime somebody is
reporting that an interesting american essay about the human future conditions
tells us that the most part of the present professions are destined to disappear
while new terrible professions are going to appear such as transgenic product
creation. Dentists are going to desappear! It is a galvanizing news. At the
moment unfortunately all people need them: people able and unable to paying.
By the way, as an exemple of our severe health system, an italian man, indebted
to treat his severe illness and to face the frightening problem of a drug
addict son, was evicted from his home and now sleeps in his car every night.
His friends pay for the petrol. Every so often similar events are reported
in television, and pitying speakers ask for making an exception to the rules
to save some poor people. Why nobody asks for changing the rules? We since
more than ten years are living in a society where the illness is a fault:
it's punished with a salary cutting, followed by the dismissal and sometimes
by the death. So, not only in Italy, we have some silent kind of capital
sentences. And this perhaps is a hypocritical or unaware way, together with
ethnical wars, with the lands becoming deserts, with the businesses based
on the blood of poor people, to fight against demographic expansion.
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