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Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL COMMITMENT ARE GONE

With every hope for changing the course of events gone, the members of this globalized society -that care only about things rather than persons, whose need for affection and intimacy have enormously increased- now look to their own bodies. They purchase creams, enroll in gyms, spas, meditation and psycho-somatic wellness classes, they take pleasure trips, buy genuine foods… in sum there is a return to the individual, to the body. But what’s most serious is the disappearance...

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HEART ATTACK. DIE SUDDENLY.

To die of heart attack, suddenly, is the death that my contemporaries hope for themselves. Having lived my life teaching about “not-wanting-to-know-you-must-die,” I know people want a death that is quick and painless, and above all unperceivable. The new globalized powers, with their powerful highly technological medicine, after having dissolved ethics and morals, have also built a new culture of non-death, of its elimination.

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NEW POWERS

With new powerful technologies the presence of humans at work is diminishing and will continue to in the future. So the unemployed masses will increase and will not be absorbed by the market. More consistent parts of the population will become poor and marginalized because they don’t have money to consume. And in this globalized and extraterritorial society, they will not only have to struggle for physical survival but they will find themselves without value, on the margins...

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BOOK FAIR IN FRANKFURT

The blog administrator would like to note that as in every year for the past 20 years at the Frankfurt Book Fair Valerio Albisetti’s books for 2010: “Felici, nonostante tutto,” (Happy Despite Everything) and “Essere Se Stessi,” (Be Yourselves) that are part of a 20 year old collection of books published by the Pauline Press in Italy have found great success and were purchased by many foreign publishing houses to be published across America, Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia,...

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