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Living as Gypsies: the power of empathy

The last one was in Bulgaria Mihail, what I remember with most affection was Yoshi. The first was Flavien . But in between there were many others such as Damien in Granada, Tom Istanbul. David Porto .

There are many, but where they go, what they do, what do they seek? Just stay, just leave, only to get lost.

I look at them with admiration and fascination, but also with great curiosity to move towards the difficult choices, sometimes sad, in directions lonely without understanding if motivated by a real need or pure idealism. Probably in a search for meaning.

After the enthusiasm of the first voyages and discoveries of the first, the emotions left the field only to lack of peace, times of suffering, to chairs and couches and always deliberately uncomfortable. In suffering continues as doped dall'assuefazione losers.

A search continues for empathy with the world to understand it to integrate it within him that transforms us into taking the commuter train, drinking Turkish Cay, philosophers in watching the sea, nature walk in the woods. We are looking for a contact with the surroundings to a greater understanding of annulling the distance between us and others. That is sometimes tolerates physical loneliness because more than offset by the meditation itself, the company's spiritual nature, the world, other companies and others.

But once perceived the secret mechanisms common to all companies that make a common matrix of people and cultures, there is another way of interacting with the outside world is a magic formula of being in the world, which makes us to relativize the problems and focus attention on what precisely important and cross all cultures, countries, peoples.

That lowest common denominator that can be found all over the world and enables us to live everywhere. What led to define the world as their home and cancel any boundaries. That to which we are going. And in some moments of extreme lucidity or sensory impairment seems to me a projection of the future. We are only the vanguard.

Mihail us up to Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second city, to our luck, because we found him in a break from his long journeys. Unlike others, I met him in his home environment and not steady on the road, in what he calls home, where he has always looked elsewhere. Six months in Italy, with the initial idea to spend a few days, six months in the mountains Swiss, months and months in Siberia, eastern Europe, several times in France and Spain, Morocco, in eastern areas of Turkey, several times, to learn Kurdish, every year in Russia and in its vastness. Mihail Why is Russian father and mother Bulgarian, fluent French, English, Italian and English, he learned Turkish in his travels and also the bases of Greek. A force of empathy, when it means creating and using points of contact and knowledge of other languages \u200b\u200btoo far proves it.

"The more developed and the individual self, the greater our sense of uniqueness and transience of existence, our existential loneliness and the infinitude of the challenges we face in order to exist and thrive. These are our feelings that allow us to empathize with such feelings in others. A more solid feel empathy also allows for a population increasingly individualized to create affiliate links also in social institutions increasingly interdependent, integrated and extended. And 'this process that characterizes what we call "civilization": the excess of blood ties and tribal rehabilitation of individuals distinguished on the basis of associative links. The extension is sympathetic to the psychological mechanism that makes possible the conversion and transition. When we say "civilized" in reality it is as if we say "empathy." J. Rifkin, The Civilization of Empathy .

The house in which he has hosted part of a building still under construction, unfinished, new doors and windows, floors and in health. But with no beds and chandeliers, tile and furniture. Of all that is superfluous. A house that is a support, of course, shared with other people, on a new start. A lifestyle is not for seeking a salary, nor does the mere existence, but only the attempt to "expand the self in time and space, the need to create live, to breathe, to be, above, in fact, necessarily exceeds the needs of reproduction as a function of personal survival. "

Mihail occasionally plays music in the street and raises enough to expand. Moving in all his extensive travels hitchhiking, making accommodate people encountered along the way or using HospitalityClub, in other words, relying on the other. A test of confidence daily. Learn the language of the country in which it stops to live for a bit 'and then again. Possibly lives and stops in nature, in spaces where you do not feel alone, as if it would find itself lost instincts. Now he says that remained to be done only two major trips: the China and the Far East on the one hand, and the Americas on the other, to complete his staff around the world, perhaps in the hope of fulfillment.

" if man is evolution become conscious, surely this is due to his own awareness that she longs to join forces with the universe, in his passionate quest for reality temporal and spatial relations. "

When we left the last time was waiting for the right time to leave and make up a hitchhiking from the Canaries, before winter. Here are the latest supply vessels before re-embarked for the Americas, his next destination.

Mihail, as well as travelers along the course, commenced drawing suggests that there may be a way to man's earthly existence, or that the deepening of the sense of self, the extension of empathy to a broader and inclusive domain of reality and consciousness expansion, they constitute the process by which we explore the transcendent mystery of existence and open up new areas of meaning.

Sociologist Know-Bun Chan summarizes the process:

The authenticity of what I discovered about myself is strengthened because I found confirmation of a part of me in you, and you in me.

Mihail increasingly reinforces itself through its ability to speak multiple languages, the discovery of a condition common to many other people and with a feeling indifferent to the accidents of history that brought you to have one religion over another, one language rather than another, a habit rather than another. The beauty lies in all of them. They are just habits, then so can change as they begin and end. Nothing is sacred, and yet you come to understand that all the little things are sacred. Mihail overcomes the skepticism of people who think that miracles do not exist by adhering to a second category, that he thinks that all life is a miracle.

My Semen Smells Like Fish Sauce

Caserta, between concrete and future

Cementir Ltd has been allowed to get away for another twenty years, after more than thirty years of presence territory. On 14 December last, the twelfth conference services at the Civil Engineering Department of Caserta ended with a decision of a draft opinion in favor of "cultivation and recovery unit for the continuation of mining "in S. Michele, Mountains Tifatini falling in the town of Maddaloni. After more than two years of administrative battles between environmental groups and the cementation of Caltagirone, the latter was granted permission to get even the eastern side of Mount St. Michael, having already spent the west facade. The nationals of Maddaloni and villages of Thirteen, Centura St. Clement and the Municipality of Caserta, probably will have to live and die with the powder of the cement industry, unhealthy first class. The landscape, more like a Swiss cheese in a hilly area that is so definitively condemned, and the upgrading and rehabilitation projects with him.

The approval of a project falling in Areas of Crisis, functional retraining of a large local context ", sounds like an insult to the citizens who fought against the expansion. Although the original project have been removed portions of land covered by the bonds of reforestation, hydrogeological and fire , were found to significantly silence the opinion of the Superintendent and environmental compatibility of the Region Campania.

The first relied on the tacit consent on the landscape obligations, although the Commission itself integrated construction of the City of Maddaloni had a negative opinion, but not binding. Constraint that seemed more than justified by the presence of bridges in the valley, the Vanvitelli aqueduct bringing water to the palace and that is inserted between the UNESCO heritage. The second, through the Environmental Protection Industry, has expressed a positive opinion in its Environmental Impact Assessment contradicting with the views expressed in the previous EIA's largest work in the territory of the last twenty years, or the Hospital building university, which is only 500 m from the Cave. In 2004, it poses the same region as a condition sine qua non the construction of the clinic closure and reclamation of quarries (which have taken place already in 2007).

Since the policy has once again proved unable to consistently plan and schedule activities, the case has become a political Cementir only when there is mention of incompatibility with the future hospital. Already in recent months, local politics had expressed his discontent. The first to speak out was the mayor of Caserta, Nicodemus Petteruti, which through a special resolution of the City Council had expressed his opposition to the continuation of mining. Then came the turn of the province that has claimed the role of "programming" of the territory in answer to a no enlargement, and finally the ex-Bishop of Caserta, Nogaro, had vehemently denounced the expansion, defining the grooves " infernal "and summoning the people to revolt.

Although cement is we won on the administrative side, but now there is the battle of politics.

facing on one side and the men of Caltagirone Maddalonese stakeholders, including workers (about one hundred) defended by the union, or purchased by some faint promise of financial compensation. On the other hand, environmentalists, citizens' committees, but most supporters (and stakeholders) of the Hospital building that will cost 200 million €. A work from five beds and five employees, plus an estimated additional 5000 induced jobs.

It is no coincidence that politicians and politicians from all parties have shouted the scandal and look forward to using for cover before it's too late. Nicholas Caputo, chairman of the transparency of building St. Lucia, has proposed a query about council, the leader of the CISL, Carmine Crisci, who followed the work of the Hospital since the beginning believes "that the speech should be addressed so overall, we must understand if the territory wants [the cave] or not, analyzing all aspects of the question, starting with the employment "and, finally, Gennaro Oliviero (PSE) declaring the side of environmental groups filed an order the agenda for the withdrawal "of all acts done by the Region." The same Oliviero, however, do not forget to mention that the "Hospital is nearing completion and could be a white elephant."

Citizens, in fact, have gone unheeded, and the policy was only awakened by the fear of losing an opportunity for "development", a bigger pie, as that of hospital. The programming has once again been sacrificed in the interests of the public and not quotas.

Dietz And Watson Langeager

The provocation pannelliana, and misunderstandings between results

The provocation pannelliana, and misunderstandings between results

Published December 13, 2010 by freedom


- It 's enough that Marco Pannella asked, provocatively, permission to talk with Berlusconi to unleash yet another aggressive campaign of disinformation at the expense radicals. The uninformed (the regime is said to Torre Argentina), have been clumsily translated dishonestly and the desire of non-violent dialogue with everyone, even the worst, in a non-existent attempt commercialization of the votes in the Chamber of Deputies radicals. Little details have been awarded to Emma Bonino, Rita Bernardini, the same panel. Still, the radical approach of dialogue should be already seen and heard, even obvious, if the years of lead even addressed to "fellow assassins" of red terrorism: it is the same non-violent method that leads Marco to jeopardize their lives to save those of Tarek Aziz and Other Cain Iraqis.

Today, more modestly, attempting a dialogue with the Democratic Party. Despite the fine words of Bersani eighth Congress of the Italian Radicals and those in the ninth Rosi Bindi, the road is still very much uphill. By piddina, antiradical practices are now a constant: the prohibition of its application to the secretary of the party Pannella, vetoes the election symbol and three of his radical exponents (Pannella, D'Elia, Viale), blocking the RAI supervisory committee, the hollow and fake anagrafe public membership of the elect, elections for the secretary and youth opaque polluted by fraud (as evidenced by the radical candidate Giulia Innocenzi ), the betrayal of the resounding electoral arrangements in the European elections last year, the shameless commercialization of the Democratic Party to the Treaty between Italy and Libya and the deletion of part of the Bill Alfano that would ease the terrible disaster and inhuman Italian prison, sad story in which the Democratic Party, not the radicals, he has found convergence with the PDL on the issue with Libyan jails on the Northern League.

So, when you can get some seat (see Copasir) the PD does not stop at nothing, not even the corpses products from the oasis of Kufra camp or any tragic Italian prison. But the "fellow" Democrats will not stop there. The Democratic Party was careful, in fact, the radicals involved in the debate on the motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister. The result is an obvious consequence, namely the lack of signature of the radical Members of the motion.

Here you enter, temporally, provocation pannelliana. The dialogue with Berlusconi, of course, is impossible and Pannella aware. The reform of the justice from prison (not to mention the responsibility civil magistrates, the separation of careers, the abolition of mandatory prosecution), and majority single-member electoral reform, the radical vision of civil rights is something infinitely far to the Knight in disarray, whose last gasps of Liberalism now go back to the nineties. Berlusconi, although in agreement with some radical demands of justice, is now entirely unable not only to achieve them, but even feared.

Yet, just the mere intention to dialogue with the radical PDL to spark an uproar, primarily between militants and supporters. But if the method is the Gandhian ahimsa, if we turn not to the terrorists, this time, but the presidency as an institution (albeit poorly represented by the current occupant), as might be shocked? How can you criticize the statement by Pannella if it asks nothing but the status for the radical, "political parties" and is willing to have it recognized by anyone, Berlusconi Bersani, by Bossi Di Pietro? And how do those who are or could be radical?

pannelliana The provocation has had two immediate effects: first, the resumption of dialogue with Pierluigi Bersani and the Democratic Party, who, once again, the opportunity to try to become the left-liberal "English" so desired, and secondly, the announcement of Mark's trip to Iraq, accompanied by Foreign Minister, to save not only the life of Tariq Aziz and other dozens of death row inmates, but the truth about the real causes of the bloody war in Iraq. Especially the second result does not seem negligible in Italy that, as Wikileaks shows, on the international stage is increasingly marginal, and clownish.

Plans To Make A Vanity Unit

THE RED SHADOWS, THE GHOSTS OF COMMUNISM

THE RED SHADOWS, THE GHOSTS OF COMMUNISM

published by Radicalweb

Citto Maselli is a singular figure of the intellectual and filmmaker, a man of outgoing personality and bright, split between art and politics. In fact, in addition to works created by the often highly political content (from The suspect in the Third Millennium Chronicles, but they did some), has traveled Maselli, parallel with the director, that relevant political career has led not only to play leading role in Italy and Europe in the organizations of the filmmakers, but also, if I think only one of the directors, to sit in the National Direction of a party, the Communist Refoundation.

The Stagecoach , out of competition at the Venice and just come out in the home video, it should be considered in the light of policy author, activist and leader of his being a Communist. The film, excellently played by a colorful cast that stand out and Ennio Fantastichini Luca Lionello, opens with a strong and beautiful, openly inspired by the works of one of the greatest Italian painters of the '900, Titina Maselli, sister of the author . Francis (City) Maselli is an intellectual who was born into a family of intellectuals, he is inspired, already in clothing, the figure of Professor Sergio Siniscalchi (played by an extraordinary Roberto Herlitzka), the protagonist of the film.

The story revolves around a community center. And 'Here we meet Siniscalchi preach the "recovery irrationality. " Maliciously, it makes me look that only an irrational recovery can be appreciated today, Marxist philosophy. Not surprisingly, today the largest communist intellectual, in all likelihood, the refined scholar Alberto Asor. The only possible common, today, communism is a "sentimental": there are now Marxist economists of any relevance, simply because decades, centuries of economic thought (and philosophical) have demolished the liberal anti-scientific Marxism and tragic.

Siniscalchi, the protagonist of the film is, as a city, an intellectual really free and out of the box: It is proposed to recover the idea Houses of Culture André Malraux. This second recovery is nothing short of amazing, if one recalls the amount of insults that Malraux, an intellectual and uncomfortable Gaullist, he received in his life from the Marxist left. Maselli knows perfectly well and proves an accomplice of his protagonist: the last half hour is in fact a real dismantling of the communist ruling class. Let's fashionable architect (Fantastichini) who did so angry Massimiliano Fuksas, the young party official from the center of society, from intellectuals isolated and uncommunicative, to the Parliamentary cialtroneria (a "cameo" by Ricky Tognazzi). The finish is

merciless and hopeful at the same time. The center was ultimately the real protagonist of the film, is now closed. Three young men are close to the old abandoned building, they begin to take measures and think of something new. The metaphor is clear, but I can agree only in part.

Surely the political, social, civic, cultural and formed the extreme left must aspire to a profound renewal. But I am convinced that it will be impossible if, as in the film, is expected to restructure the "old house": if you do not get rid of Marx and Engels, the Communist left today will remain marginal and sectarian, increasingly distant from the heart of society's problems .