Optimism, all you need is a little optimism. Today the virus, yesterday ISIS, the day before yesterday the crisis, even before the unsolved crimes. The media tell us bad, horrible news, we read them, we get depressed, we complain. And we stop realizing that wedged between these dots of darkness there is a wonderful luminous world that surrounds our days.
The mechanism of the media is now merciless. The goal of any means of mass communication is to make money. To do this, it requires large masses to use it. To get large masses the simplest tool is to tell sensationalist stories that arouse fear and disgust. And so we filled the TV lounges with monsters and the newspapers and websites of catastrophic news.
But in this way we gambled on optimism. We have allowed pessimism to steal our taste for beauty.
Optimism, all you need is a little optimism
Italians are traditionally an optimistic people. They reacted with a smile and sometimes with a hint of healthy cynicism to the worst misfortunes in history. Today they let themselves be convinced by the new magic pipers that the world is a horrible place, that evil has conquered it and that it is probably also about to end because of thepollution.
No pessimistic thought has ever been more perfect than this. But are we really convinced that this gloomy horizon that we scrutinize is the only truth? Are we sure that being pessimistic is the only option we have and that what the historical moment we live in is so terrible?
'It's a great miracle that I haven't given up on all mine hopes because they seem absurd and unworkable. I still keep them, despite everything, because I continue to believe in the innermost goodness of man'.
Do you know who wrote these words? Someone luckier than us, who didn't have to endure the crisis, the murders and the viruses that tell the story of TV?
No. Anne Frank, a Jewish girl forced to live her early adolescence in hiding and then deported and died in Auschwitz.
Optimism does not depend on what surrounds us, it is a light that we must learn to rediscover within our. And then even everything outside, be it a war, a virus or a black day, will be illuminated with colors that we seem to have forgotten. Optimism. All it takes is a little optimism.