P di privacy... e di psicosi!

Apparentemente siamo in un mondo di decerebrati.

Apparentemente non possiamo resistere alla pubblicità.

Apparentemente c'è una qualche società maligna che vuole turlupinarci.

Apparentemente chi ha i nostri dati ci controlla.

Apparentemente la privacy è importante.

Apparentemente le compagnie creano i nostri bisogni.

C'è troppa apparenza a questo mondo.

Basta con la privacy.

Basta con le polemiche.

Basta con i presunti Grandi Fratelli.

Ora è sceso in campo un ministro tedesco, non bastavano i centinaia di milioni di articoli blog che accusano Facebook di utilizzare i dati personali per scopi di lucro.

Privacy privacy privacy.

Si cerca la privacy a tutti i costi. Qualcuno ha deciso che se un'azienda legge cosa ci piace è male.

E' male perché in quel caso l'azienda ci invia pubblicità di cose che potrebbero interessarci ed esserci utili, e ci guadagnerebbe sopra.

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Aspettate un momento...! Ma se ci interessano e sono utili, allora perché dovrei impedire ad un'azienda di propormi i suoi prodotti, quando io per primo ne ricavo un qualcosa???

E al contrario, se quest'azienda mi invia pubblicità il cui contenuto è per me superfluo, semplicemente non lo compro. Stop.

Non siamo mica crostacei che si mangiano qualsiasi mollica di pane gli venga tirata!

Cominciamo invece a discernere ciò che ci serve e ciò che non ci serve.

Cominciamo a lasciar perdere le lucine belline delle pubblicità e proiettiamo nel futuro un nostro io con l'oggetto pubblicizzato. Serve veramente? Posso trarne qualche vantaggio?

Cominciamo a pensare ai NOSTRI bisogni, non tanto a quelli delle aziende che, diciamocelo, tanto oscuri non sono.

Cominciamo a sbrogliare la matassa filamentosa di apparenze di cui sopra e a guardare di più al contenuto delle cose.

Scoprirete che in effetti, da nascondere non abbiamo niente.

Truth?

Hi!

Do you think politics looks for truth or common wealth? Honestly I don't think so, and with the politicians we have in Italy, frankly it'd hard to believe the contrary.

But, my talking today isn't focused on a the classic italian-bar-chitchat which we love to do.

I love to search a valid opinion through the meanings of the word, their origin, that's why today I'm going to analyze the basic word on which the entire building of politic-fare is made.

Compromise.

Not the whole politics in the world follow this rule of course, but I feel like mocked while watching television or comparing blogs and official journals or gazettes, or any other institutional production.

The point I get, is that when there is a serious dispute among political parties, we can see all the farers hurring to negotiate and most of all : to find a compromise, in order to save the nation (which in italian is translated as "their asses").

Com-promise. Even if much time passed, the latin form hold its original form in italian, english and french as well.

Though you don't know anything about latin, you can easily remark that the prefix "com" is shared with many other words like "connect" or "convoy", from latin "cum" which means "with".

So com-promise stands as "to make promise to more than one/to make promises coexisting promises" concerning various matters.

Often it is assimilated into a negative form, to something which must be done to preserve something else, but that can leave us unhappy, disappointed, unsatisfied.

Doing a compromise is always a loss for both part, and it is curious to remark that the same exact word is often used to describe something that has stopped, or broke, or simpler something that is not anymore functioning, for example "my project has been compromised by...........(something)".

That's it! A compromise is something that denaturate the initial intention, which is not possible pursue anymore due to external contingencies with which you are forced to deal with, and cannot anyhow avoid.

Politics.

Vastness of means

Today i'm going to talk about a certain word which has caught my attention.

Everything has begun because I read on Facebook this question "Do animal waste their time?".

I immediately thought that the first thing which had to be cleared was the meaning of "wasting time". Even if we can easily understand what it means, I think we can't just limit to use the human scale and proportion to Animal World.

I searched through the web for the word's etymology and it seems that the word "waste" comes from the latin's word "vastum", which primarily means "vast, extended, wide, desert" and so on.

And so, from this word naturally comes "devastate" , "to make a place empty/void/desert" because, de + verb" in latin was a prefix normally used to strengten the sense of another certain word.

But the root, "vast" it remained the same as a name in french and italian, in english on the contrary it slowly changed into a verb, which, saw from the literally mean, it perfectly gives the picture of the meaning.

So, "wasting time" is to make the own time "void/empty/deserted". We, as human beings, feel this unpleasant sensation when we're caught in apathy, which, if prolonged for a quite long amount of time, may flows into depression. To avoid this, we work, we do art, we search through the world what amuse us, we set goals to achieve, we explore, we try, we experience. Animals don't. Apparently they don't have any "missing part" in their spirits, they don't feel any lackness about anything.

That's why I don't think animals waste their time, just because we're talking about two different natures, two different ways about how to live.