Fabrizio Ulivieri - TrendSetter

  When the world seems dark we need a dogged and deliberate choice, that we call H O P E . And that depends on a feeling of faith. Faith in a voice who sometimes speaks within us, faith in a gentle hand that is pushing us towards our likìmas [1], faith in unquestionable signs that speak to you from the very heart of the things around you. Hope is hearing, hope is practising (like a difficult piece on the violin) the exercise of listening to those things that speak the truth which comes from above, beyond the saeculum [2]. Hope surges above all in a society of slavery as we are now. And we need prophets, because they talk the language of truth, carrying out hope to the people who don't accept the condition of slavery we are thrown into, and rise up, in virtue of a hope that comes out from the mouth of new prophets who have the power to endure and resist. [1] As for the concept of likìmas see  https://princasvilniuje.blogspot.com/2022/04/non-e-un-bene-per-luono-che-diven...

I always thought that too much freedom, democratic freedom understood like a form of exasperated individualism (Italian style), is detrimental to creativity. Creativity, the real one, that is linked to the power of internal messages and based on the support of strong values (ideologies, heroism, honour, courage ...). The literary creativeness we are witnessing today is a mere reproduction without any minimal content. Framed Memes . I can not find a better definition. In the words of Curzio Malaparte, La pelle, I find confirmation of how too much freedom can be prejudicial to the individual (and his creativity). Too much freedom is similar to a plague, as Malaparte describes it, in terms of  liberation of Naples by the American force s. "If an Allied soldier leaned out of his jeep and smiled at a woman and then stroked her face in a fleeting and slight way she, preserved dignified and pure up to that moment, would become a prostitute. If a child put a candy to his mouth...