"As long as we are 'mad' we shall live." Excerpts from the book "Fundamentals, not ornaments" by GB Angels, a dreamer of a Europe united literary and cultural in the '60s. antiques market at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, I happened to find in the first issue of a bimonthly magazine, "Literary Europe", published in January 1960. The text contained therein are so many amazing authors and prominent Italian and foreign (Vigorelli, Brecht, Quasimodo, Durrell, Piovene, Lawrence ....). These include an essay on pg. 45, I will use this to open my blog, because now more than ever it seems to me useful, despite saddens me to think our Europe today, and why it seems to me to be a poster of a part of my thinking : "Fundamentals, not ornaments" of GB Angels (Angels was an important figure in the landscape literary and social, like many, unjustly forgotten; see a nice article published last year in the Corriere della Sera
Note: Any humble considerations of bloggers ( I am, I am! ) will be placed in the middle of the text with the green color hope .
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Excerpts from "Basic, no ornaments" :
\u0026lt;...> the multiplicity and coexistence of styles, ideas, schools, theories, systems distinguish Europe from other continents; and the decline of Europe, we would see the NOT already in the apparent anarchy of minds, as many believe conformists, but in the disciplined acceptance of uniformity. long as we are 'mad' we viv i! And we can not even conceive of a European culture that at one time of his arrest history is satisfied. \u0026lt;...>
\u0026lt;...> Europe that lived without work to go beyond itself, without creating a new and different, would not represent anything, and only lose prestige that still requires a certain respect to non- Europe. In truth we do not do more to fear anyone, neither as a military power, nor as an economic power, or diplomatic, or demographic. But who could UMIL, SE spoke in the language of culture? We must insist in saying that the only forces capable of defending ourselves are now the poetry, art, philosophy, scientific thought . The trend that many antifilosofica antiletteraria and exalt today is, in our opinion, a real suicide ( and this is now more alive than ever ) . We would probably give up our own 'weapons': peaceful weapons weapons wonderful that we have invented? But if you just slow down the rhythm of creation, of discovery, invention, what could still save us?
policy not save us, because a policy not nourished by the thought did not matter at all, is a policy of cunning and intrigue, of hypocrisy and compromise, which falls apart at first impact of ideology. There will save the economic well-being because wealth for wealth and income for the gain lead to social formations and ignoble also easy to destroy. There will save even a late union of our countries in a federal, because this solidarity, if arise from the fear and concern immediate , lacks the Moral conscience that is only by love and persuasion (I dare not imagine what would he think Angels in front so that today's united Europe ).
I've always been a convinced European . But I would be prepared to abandon the ideal of a united Europe, if such a union would be based solely on political and economic factors . \u0026lt;...> Union based on the technique and affairs inevitably lead to adverse culture whenever it threatens the development of markets, and culture, to survive, would eventually take a passive attitude, of ' permanent availability 'and obedience. But this is our Europe? ( and after 50 years after that question the answer would be, in essence, yes. Aaaarrrghhh! ).
\u0026lt;...> The primacy of political and economy, for people such authority, is sacred. And men of great responsibility insist always to consider the literature, art, philosophy as mere ornaments of the spirit, or rather suspect that they are the cornerstones of our past history and, again, in this ( and now more than ever ..).
G.B.Angioletti
