The approach
Judge, don't understand.
Take a side, don't form an opinion.
Look for confirmations, not points of view.
Select instrumentally, don't investigate critically.
This is your everyday Italian's approach to history (assuming they even have one, an approach to history).
And it's absurd enough as it is.
But when you apply that approach to current news, which by its very nature lacks documentary sedimentation, the absurd becomes just a fond memory, and we move on to cultural horror.
Synergy is a very powerful phenomenon, but it cuts both ways: even the most insignificant and mediocre specimens of humankind, when they bunch up into herds and charge off bellowing in unison, can inflict unpredictable damage on the environment.
While we wait for the next shipment of heavy-duty sedatives like sports championships (no, the people who turn up their noses at soccer and follow the minor sports aren't any better off) or TV dreck, the advice is to take up briscola under the beach umbrella. At least there the bone of contention will be a harmless choice of which card to play, and the dust kicked up will be nothing but a few grains of sand.
Take a side, don't form an opinion.
Look for confirmations, not points of view.
Select instrumentally, don't investigate critically.
This is your everyday Italian's approach to history (assuming they even have one, an approach to history).
And it's absurd enough as it is.
But when you apply that approach to current news, which by its very nature lacks documentary sedimentation, the absurd becomes just a fond memory, and we move on to cultural horror.
Synergy is a very powerful phenomenon, but it cuts both ways: even the most insignificant and mediocre specimens of humankind, when they bunch up into herds and charge off bellowing in unison, can inflict unpredictable damage on the environment.
While we wait for the next shipment of heavy-duty sedatives like sports championships (no, the people who turn up their noses at soccer and follow the minor sports aren't any better off) or TV dreck, the advice is to take up briscola under the beach umbrella. At least there the bone of contention will be a harmless choice of which card to play, and the dust kicked up will be nothing but a few grains of sand.
Drafted from Italian with Blog Translator, then revised by me.
