An advertisement paper is lazily hanging from the wagon's ceiling. Who cares. It's floating, and coming back into its place, not even able to find it definite shape against the air movements. No one cares. Nobody's really looking upward, it's time to head for diner, and home. And though...
It's shouting; it's provoking. It's frustrating...
It's a woman magazine. One of France's best-sellers. Cameron Diaz on cover, an offer for individualized horoscop; nothing special. Even its main title is not that unusual. But here is the evil.
"Year 2007, Year of I"
2007, l'année Moi...
How much of a society is to be found on a magazine's cover? They aim at distorting what we are, to please, to focus, to print our minds and memories, and eventually to sell.
Still, doesn't that show something? Doesn't that show what we really care for?
Would you please pay your taxes? No, I moved to Switzerland, sorry. Isn't it my right?
Would you please get off the road? No, we're on strike, it's a fundamental right!
Would you please have us talk, it's our baby! No, it's my body, it's my right!
Quest of identity, lack of confidence, consumer's lust... We cherish ourselves, loose ourselves, look for ourselves..
There are studies, recent studies, which would show that man has not grown to what he is only by genetical opportunities. Like chimpazees, we would have grown because we learned, not every individual from his experience, but as groups, as societies. Because we shared what we learned, from Thalès to Einstein, from the silex to the mobile, from the wars and the peaces... Because we cared, too.
What would come up of that? What would come up of societies which do not really share things in common but their narcissism? When they do not claim their common belonging? Will they disappear against others, stronger in their shared values? Are they designed to die?
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Oh oh oh easily! too many questions at a time! I can't answer them all!!! I am brilliant, but this is too much! :)))
And if seriously (I can be sometimes...), this is my concern lately. you just wrote it in the paper (blog). It is again about our choices. But our choices are already determined here. We can't stand against the society, our community. And if the community decides it is good, our opinion will be the same. Otherwise, you are outcast...As soon as you start living in the community you loose your own identity leaving a very small peace of YOU in yourself. It is sad!
We have so different experiences, Aijan!
Here, in Europe, one can feel society is not that powerful anymore, because people do not really feel belonging to it. They are an aggregate of individualities, no real community.
Remember what we said about elderly people, that die on their own in their flat? It's partly because everybody's so selfish, to be simple.
Hola, quisiera poder entender lo que escribes pero me pondre en la tarea de estudiar fuerte el ingles para poder entender y asi participar de tu pagina.
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