Many times I’ve listened to Paolo Sorrentino, the film director, talk about boredom, which he ultimately sees as something positive in human life. A creative act, in the end. I’m not sure I agree. When you are bored, you lose the creative force that generates motivation, or even anxiety. When you are bored, you drift. You float. You remain alive, but with a sense of disgust. At least that’s how it is for me. I am bored, that is, I am disgusted, with this world of lies and emptiness, of cultural emptiness. Ninety-eight percent of what is published, posted, or produced is crap, or at best inane chatter. And because I am bored, I lose the sense of my own existence. I lose the meaning of my everyday life. Of course, this cannot be merely personal. I believe in the Zeitgeist . What I feel and think today is not what I felt or thought twenty years ago, nor what I will feel or think ten years from now. Time changes us, unavoidably. We think, and we are, according to what the esprit du t...
Chi eravate? Chi siete voi stati? Tu e lei create - due macchine perfette Da un logos divino a voi doni dati. Meraviglie tenevate e ben strette In vita cosí gettati - a esistere E al mondo consegnare benedette. Il ricordo di voi voci sapere Che appaiono dal nulla e al nulla Ritornano per sempre a cadere. Il logos divino di lor si culla II suo frutto a me talora appare Ma poi scompare e il suon ne rifrulla Nel vibrar d'aria le vedo vagare. Per quanto ancora io terrò voi Di qua a stare e con me durare?