Fabrizio Ulivieri - TrendSetter

It is said that a major economic crisis is about to hit Italy. Forecasts are that around 120,000 companies will close. Perhaps it will not be 120,000 but certainly a lot of them. However and personally, I believe that a serious crisis it will be nothing but good for Italy and Italians. Perhaps and lastly Italians will lose some of the arrogance they have towards the world, they will perhaps regain the endurance to work and the pleasure to work, which they have definitely lost forever from many decades. Above all, Italian companies will perhaps try to have a more flexible mentality, become more innovative, take risks and maybe will be willing to face new challenges and experiment with newer ways and not the old-fashioned ones traced by their fathers in the 1960s that they stubbornly repeat for no whatsoever evident reason (almost the entire majority of them are companies founded by the grandfathers and inherited by the grandchildren through their sons, who are managing the companies lik...

A diebus autem Ioannis Baptistae usque nunc regnum caelorum vim patitur, et violenti rapiunt illud (Matteo 11,12) I am unsure how to call it, but there is in this world called Italy a heart which is not a heart, but a spineless heart, a heart which is not used to suffer and deprive itself to gain vigour and strength but it is in any and single situation oriented to continuously please itself. A heart that is incapable to express bravery and heroism because is grounded on a natural split between feeble and flaccid vigour. Years ago I supported a theory: what you eat decides what you are. Italians are autoreferenziali , self-referential, because they eat food whose quality is uncomparable, without confrontation. That drew them to be self-referential, arrogant, selfish, materialistic. They made a religion of the quality, of their arrogance. They lost themselves in this autoreferenzialità , they became shortsighted. They started living just for their selfish ego. They went completely lost...

Le persone chiedono la libertà di parola per compensare la libertà di pensiero che raramente usano. (Søren Kierkegaard) The stupidity of these folk, the Italians, consists in not having an underground life. I am sure a few of them has read Dostoevsky, a lot of them, even, has never read a book. They completely ignore the meaning of it, just are surface. Dull people. Dazzling sometimes but dull in the end. I have no idea about the reasons that led me to write down these notes except that I am fed up. Disgusted by their irresponsible way of living. They are children and less than children. They are so keen to obey. They need to obey, it is in their treacherous preposterous and servile nature to obey. I am not Italian, even though I was born in Italy. For many years, for long long years, I said I was Etruscan. But now I am confused I am tired I became harsh, hurting Those days which I was living in Italy, when I used to say that I was Etruscan, I was in their midst, I was sick as they a...

This ideal man is the man who displays "dynamic conformity" (delicious phrase!) and an intense loyalty to the group, an unflagging desire to subordinate himself, to belong. (Aldous Huhley) Užupis is a district of Vilnius - the so-called Republic of Artists. There is a restaurant right there, in the centre of the little central square – a magnificent place, very close to the bridge that you incontrovertibly must cross arriving from Onos Bažnyčia. This restaurant is well known to the Italian community of Vilnius. Famous and illustrious Italian gourmands, above all, characterized by their big bellies, bad breath, satisfied faces, bright and vivid eyes yearning for food use to cross the bridge and go there for dinner. They have the most elaborated possible philosophies regarding their stand with respect to traditional recipes. Pasta alla puttanesca, carbonara, spaghetti alla amatriciana. One of the most vexed questions debated among them is indeed which is the origin...

Italians have the belly as the centre of their world, inside. Outside, they have the sun. They often say – non c’è rimasto altro (there is nothing else left). And with this, they think of the fact that their history deprived them of even the hope to change. What is left, then? Food and sun. They have bottomless bellies. They eat a lot (and shit a lot, probably) because they constantly need to fill their intestine to the brim. They are empty. Empty of hope and short of ideas. Mes, italai, nuolat kalbame apie tai, Ką valgėme vakar, Ką valgome dabar, Ką valgysime rytoj[1] Said a famous Italian restaurateur who managed two Italian restaurants in Vilnius. In fact, in Italy, restaurants are always full of people. Bar and supermarkets are hyper-crowed. Conversation themes are soccer and food. Two gnostic epiphenomena of a new kind of Religion. All in all, Catholicism is a religion completely imbued of gnosis and globalism (above all now with the current Pope), it is therefore...