Take the moon. A dialogue between generations - Paolo Crepet

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Book in Italian

2023 Mondadori

«Take the moon» is not advice, but a suggestion. It is not only valid in difficult moments, but also in those of joy, or when one tends more towards resignation than exaltation. The moon is there on purpose, it disappears and reappears precisely because if it were always there it would be trivial. It works like longing, which involves looking for stars just when they aren't there or you fear they are hidden somewhere in the universe. Today more than ever we are captured by the present and have made it enough for ourselves, perhaps terrified of what could be upon us or out of satiety with what we possess. The family struggles in its authoritative function, the school is soaked in bureaucracy and impervious to change, attention to the environment, attempting to guarantee a beneficial future, risks affecting beauty, while technologies design a world of silent and subservient to new categorical orders. It is as if the future offered controversial messages instead of reassuring ones. Yet, it is not the events that are changing us, but we who change the events. Chasing a horizon, not conquering it, this is the meaning of thinking and writing. And today there is a real need to look for something new. Not everyone tries, nor feels this obligation. Terrible wars are being fought, yet what is more worrying is what makes no noise and what lurks in many souls, persuading them to take refuge, to defend themselves by closing the door of their homes. Convenience dealers go around, tempting the thoughts of many people. In this book, Paolo Crepet returns to the themes dearest to him, education, school, family, with a clear intent: to provide a tool to orient oneself beyond the blanket of clouds that obscure the moon, that is, hope. This is why he says to young people and even to those who are no longer young: get the moon. To each their own, of course.

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Description

Book in Italian

2023 Mondadori

«Take the moon» is not advice, but a suggestion. It is not only valid in difficult moments, but also in those of joy, or when one tends more towards resignation than exaltation. The moon is there on purpose, it disappears and reappears precisely because if it were always there it would be trivial. It works like longing, which involves looking for stars just when they aren't there or you fear they are hidden somewhere in the universe. Today more than ever we are captured by the present and have made it enough for ourselves, perhaps terrified of what could be upon us or out of satiety with what we possess. The family struggles in its authoritative function, the school is soaked in bureaucracy and impervious to change, attention to the environment, attempting to guarantee a beneficial future, risks affecting beauty, while technologies design a world of silent and subservient to new categorical orders. It is as if the future offered controversial messages instead of reassuring ones. Yet, it is not the events that are changing us, but we who change the events. Chasing a horizon, not conquering it, this is the meaning of thinking and writing. And today there is a real need to look for something new. Not everyone tries, nor feels this obligation. Terrible wars are being fought, yet what is more worrying is what makes no noise and what lurks in many souls, persuading them to take refuge, to defend themselves by closing the door of their homes. Convenience dealers go around, tempting the thoughts of many people. In this book, Paolo Crepet returns to the themes dearest to him, education, school, family, with a clear intent: to provide a tool to orient oneself beyond the blanket of clouds that obscure the moon, that is, hope. This is why he says to young people and even to those who are no longer young: get the moon. To each their own, of course.

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