Romagnoli have the courage to think with your own head!
When I went to school it often happened that I was pointed at by my classmates who said: “Why do you have to do things differently from others?”. Other times they said to me: “You’re not normal” thinking they were saying something derogatory to me…
They didn’t understand that I hadn’t undergone the classic indoctrination, so rarely did our conception of “normal” coincide. If we’re good at it, we realise how indoctrinated and narrow-minded we are when we engage with people from a culture completely different from ours and who therefore see the same things in a decidedly different way. Usually we think “these people are really weird”, but we know that they think the same of us.
Thanks to the globalisation of the world and the spread of knowledge one would have imagined increasingly more acceptance and respect for diversity. Instead what is happening is that human beings, like products, are moving increasingly towards standardisation and unfortunately those who notice it are only those who are pointed at with the classic “You’re not normal”.
Today the standard of the human being is no longer given by one’s family, one’s traditions, one’s priest, one’s teacher… But by the large multinationals that direct us in our actions, much more than we imagine.
What does the future hold if we don’t change?
The future sees us all as robots, surrounded by fiction or artificial intelligence as they call it. Within a few years for many it will no longer make sense to travel because it will be possible to do so comfortably seated at home thanks to a room dedicated to augmented reality, where it will be possible to live an almost live experience and without any risk.
Our body will be constantly kept under control by robots that will travel in our blood and we will pay for our purchases with a subcutaneous chip. Manual work will disappear because it’s replaced by machines and perhaps they’ll even invent something to stop us making love, too risky…
To a prospect of this type there are 3 major responses we can give. The first, as standardised men, is to let things go as those in power have decided they should go. “I already have too many things to think about, it’s not me who decides my future, that of my family, my city and, imagine, my region”. The second response is to oppose this change, perhaps by rejecting technology, doing terrorism and so on.
The third response, that of Vivi Consapevole in Romagna, is to live an alternative lifestyle where biodiversity and traditions are valued. A Romagna where ecology is in the foreground compared to the economy as one cannot manage something one doesn’t know. A Romagna where people’s happiness is in the foreground compared to profit at all costs.
Does technology really make us happy?
Currently the question that the greatest minds ask themselves is: “will this new technological product break through the market?”. The question instead should be: “will this new technological product make us happier?”. The answer to this second question unfortunately very often is NO. Technology is helping us in many tiring and repetitive tasks but is not making us happier. Technology has made us more independent, but this also leads us to be less happy because thus we have lost the sense of community. Our neighbour is no longer important, is no longer the person who will help us in time of need. The Romagnoli like all “Westerners” suffer increasingly from anxiety, depression, degenerative diseases, heart diseases, despite the great technological progress of the last 50 years.
So being subversive today means speaking one’s own dialect, taking a walk in the woods, buying directly from the farmer or at the market, helping one’s neighbour, moving by bicycle or by public transport, buying a car to get around and not to show off, working for something that gives happiness to man, eating fresh food, drinking spring water, going to the village festival, meeting with neighbours to improve something, throwing away the television instead of changing it, not using medicines, not indoctrinating one’s children… In short, being subversive means continuing to think with one’s own head!
To do all this courage is necessary, the courage to be different from the masses, different from the definition of “normal” that the multinational has given us, the courage to be aware Romagnoli!
Don’t teach your children to adapt to society, to make do with what there is, to compromise with what they find before them. Give them inner values with which they can change society and resist the diabolical project of the globalisation of all brains. Because globalisation is not only an economic phenomenon but also a biological one, as it imposes global desires and global behaviours on us that will end up inducing global modifications in our way of thinking. Today’s world needs rebels, spiritual rebels! – TIZIANO TERZANI –
Francesco Angelo Rosso
