Thursday, February 23, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
House M.D. is coming to an end. Great!
The greatest TV series of all time is coming to an end. Setting aside the tears that might randomly pop from the corner of your eye (or even a full fledged cry for what is worth) it is really a great news!
For eight years of your life you lived in the shadow of the great man that is dr. House. EIGHT YEARS! Admiring his guts, his unbeatable logic, his pragmatism...
Now, it's about time you unstick yourself from the lifeless screen and become what you adore. Time for you to be bold, to be logic and to be pragmatic...
Time for YOU to be HOUSE!
For eight years of your life you lived in the shadow of the great man that is dr. House. EIGHT YEARS! Admiring his guts, his unbeatable logic, his pragmatism...
Now, it's about time you unstick yourself from the lifeless screen and become what you adore. Time for you to be bold, to be logic and to be pragmatic...
Time for YOU to be HOUSE!
Monday, December 5, 2011
2000 years of history
Old habits die hard. European habits are 2000 years old. I by now, am starting to believe they are immortal.
It's not cool to be nationalistic. It's cool to be United Europe.
But also, it's not cool for our European Leaders to take half-measure decisions. Like imposing a common fiscal policy without a common European democracy.
I want to vote for EU President. I want to vote for the European Commission President. I want to vote for the general prosecutor. And by all means I want to have an Army if we're going to have a common fiscal policy anyway.
I guess since Europe never had democracy for 2000 years (on all its territory at once) why start now?
I W A N T T O V O T E !
I W A N T T O V O T E !
Saturday, December 3, 2011
We will NEVER forget!
A comment on the site of UK newspaper The Telegraph about the current Euro crisis synthesizes the opinion of common people from Britain but also more often than not the opinion of British politicians:
"European politicians have almost created the very monster they claim that the United States of Europe was designed to prevent: future conflict. And still they cry "we need more Europe, not less."
It is past time for sanity to emerge; for the Euro to be abandoned and the EU to be remodeled into nothing more than a Single Market."
I want to send my own message to Britain today:
Thank you for saving us from nazi troops. We will never forget.
Thank you for doing your best to destroy Euro and the European Union, and throw us all into misery just so you can save your damned pound and wrecked economy.
We will NEVER forget!
"European politicians have almost created the very monster they claim that the United States of Europe was designed to prevent: future conflict. And still they cry "we need more Europe, not less."
It is past time for sanity to emerge; for the Euro to be abandoned and the EU to be remodeled into nothing more than a Single Market."
I want to send my own message to Britain today:
Thank you for saving us from nazi troops. We will never forget.
Thank you for doing your best to destroy Euro and the European Union, and throw us all into misery just so you can save your damned pound and wrecked economy.
We will NEVER forget!
Sunday, November 27, 2011
It feels like that everyday nowadays
Four years ago (in 2007) when I was in Milan (for just 6 hours between flights) I took random shots of people in the Dome Square.
It was one year after I took the photo, when I was reviewing some of my travel shots that I realized what a powerful symbol this photo carries. I thought back then: Oh, what a lucky shot! Getting the feelings on film without the feelings even being there.
Even more years later, I realized how well it can depict the turmoil boiling beneath the European Union. Could it be that this shot shows that nationalism, xenophobia and racism were boiling long before we even realized it is here? Could it be that the photo actually recorded true feelings?
Saturday, November 26, 2011
E.U. - We're doing it wrong
In 2007, well before the current turmoil hit the society, Jose Manuel Barroso (president of the European Commission) said: "Sometimes I like to compare the European Union as the creation of organization of Empires. The Empires!...But there is a great difference. The Empires were usually made through force in a center that was imposing a diktat... And now we have what we call a non-Imperial Empire."
Years have passed by and it looks like European Union turned from a beautiful dream into a horrendous nightmare in a blink of an eye. Everything seems to crumble apart. Euro, the common coin (that the strongest economical states use) is at the brink of disaster. Peaceful, pro-European and anti-nationalistic feelings - the very fabric that holds this fragile union together are turning into hateful, egoistic and mean feelings. Day by day, Europeans start thinking not how to get along better but how to hate more.
Each day that passes, one European will stop believing in the United Europe project and start supporting nationalistic (even extremist nationalistic) projects. Each day that passes newspapers will publish a new article of how other countries or even the European Union are at fault for their own economical state. But never their own country will be at fault for anything.
European Commission is overwhelmed by the situation. Greece is falling apart while Merkel and Sarkozy are putting a feeble attempt to save what's left of the dream that no longer than 10 years ago was UNITED EUROPE. Sadly they too seem to be failing.
How is it possible, I wonder, that the best project of peace and prosperity that has ever been seen on this planet is starting to fail so miserably? Is peace overrated? Is economical prosperity pursued in its purest form of sincerity doomed to fail? Are people just selfish, narrow-minded and conflictual?
Actually, most of them are. And history has told us that any enterprise built on denying the reality of human nature - the true fabric of society - is doomed to fail. So shall the European Union in it's current state.
Because European Union is a synthetic construction, with a synthetic ideology and, more important that not, a synthetic communication policy. I mean, what the hell does that flag mean? Saint Peter? Jesus? The constellation of Orion?
Just as the whole structure in itself, the symbols of European Union are flat and lifeless. They are a depiction of the force, the engine that drives hundreds of millions of people into working, fighting and believing in something. That force is missing: a ring of stars.... Those do not even symbolize all the nations united under the flag. Pathetic!
People want GREATNESS! That is something that our European leaders seem to have forgotten long ago. Instead of firefighting the money shortness, in order to build a new Europe, Merkel and Sarkozy should focus not on fighting the banks, but fighting the lack of will of most Europeans these days. A country with an apathetic population will perish. An Empire with an apathetic population will disintegrate.
People want greatness. This is our only chance. People will not fight for something that do not understand (like banks and finance and budgets), but they will fight for that leader that brings greatness back to them. And greatness starts with the symbols of the Empire.
We may be a non-Imperial Empire, but we are an Empire nonetheless.
We the people of Europe want to see a flag, that holds the symbols which drove us to greatness, to work and to war for more than two thousand years: we want to see the Aquila, the lion and the bull united under the same flag. We want to see the cross, the grain and the olive branches. We want to have great symbols if you want us to be great nations united.
And this is how it would be done right. You can keep the blue color or you can have all the colors of Europe as long as all the rest is golden. And somewhere, tiny in one corner you can have your damned ring of stars.
Of course, a symbol is not enough. It takes a true leader to drive and hand it all together. We seem to be short of such at the moment...
Years have passed by and it looks like European Union turned from a beautiful dream into a horrendous nightmare in a blink of an eye. Everything seems to crumble apart. Euro, the common coin (that the strongest economical states use) is at the brink of disaster. Peaceful, pro-European and anti-nationalistic feelings - the very fabric that holds this fragile union together are turning into hateful, egoistic and mean feelings. Day by day, Europeans start thinking not how to get along better but how to hate more.
Each day that passes, one European will stop believing in the United Europe project and start supporting nationalistic (even extremist nationalistic) projects. Each day that passes newspapers will publish a new article of how other countries or even the European Union are at fault for their own economical state. But never their own country will be at fault for anything.
European Commission is overwhelmed by the situation. Greece is falling apart while Merkel and Sarkozy are putting a feeble attempt to save what's left of the dream that no longer than 10 years ago was UNITED EUROPE. Sadly they too seem to be failing.
How is it possible, I wonder, that the best project of peace and prosperity that has ever been seen on this planet is starting to fail so miserably? Is peace overrated? Is economical prosperity pursued in its purest form of sincerity doomed to fail? Are people just selfish, narrow-minded and conflictual?
Actually, most of them are. And history has told us that any enterprise built on denying the reality of human nature - the true fabric of society - is doomed to fail. So shall the European Union in it's current state.
Because European Union is a synthetic construction, with a synthetic ideology and, more important that not, a synthetic communication policy. I mean, what the hell does that flag mean? Saint Peter? Jesus? The constellation of Orion?
Just as the whole structure in itself, the symbols of European Union are flat and lifeless. They are a depiction of the force, the engine that drives hundreds of millions of people into working, fighting and believing in something. That force is missing: a ring of stars.... Those do not even symbolize all the nations united under the flag. Pathetic!
People want GREATNESS! That is something that our European leaders seem to have forgotten long ago. Instead of firefighting the money shortness, in order to build a new Europe, Merkel and Sarkozy should focus not on fighting the banks, but fighting the lack of will of most Europeans these days. A country with an apathetic population will perish. An Empire with an apathetic population will disintegrate.
People want greatness. This is our only chance. People will not fight for something that do not understand (like banks and finance and budgets), but they will fight for that leader that brings greatness back to them. And greatness starts with the symbols of the Empire.
We may be a non-Imperial Empire, but we are an Empire nonetheless.
We the people of Europe want to see a flag, that holds the symbols which drove us to greatness, to work and to war for more than two thousand years: we want to see the Aquila, the lion and the bull united under the same flag. We want to see the cross, the grain and the olive branches. We want to have great symbols if you want us to be great nations united.
And this is how it would be done right. You can keep the blue color or you can have all the colors of Europe as long as all the rest is golden. And somewhere, tiny in one corner you can have your damned ring of stars.
Of course, a symbol is not enough. It takes a true leader to drive and hand it all together. We seem to be short of such at the moment...
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