Today only fools can be happy

We live in a society dominated by frustrations. The dominant feeling is that of happening in an environment where you feel excluded, you feel insecure, you're afraid. This is how frustration is accused of turning into anger. And do you know where anger leads? It leads to the desire to tear everything apart. Our time is not violent, it's destructive”.

Vittorino Andreol, a well - known psychiatrist and productive writer, reflects on contemporary and man. He does it in his last novel, presented in Turin's Salon Book, “I Silenzio delle Pietre” (Resolatory House Rizzoli, fq.328).

“does not believe in the category division between novels and essays”, it specifys. Not by chance, the book is a long narrator set up in 2028: times are no longer the same; man is no longer free to choose but has only the blessed option of exile. And it becomes mythical and misleading, when it turns out to be voluntary and Scottish.

My protagonist, continues Andreoli, escapes everything. It's noises, from the Internet, from the virtual world that scares and consumes time, preventing it from thinking. Escape to a place where man is not yet. I choose a beautiful bay, in nature, to escape this society of our frustrated”.

You talked about violence and restructuring. What difference does it make?

Violence is finalised to cause harm to others. Man is jealous, because he is someone who has taken the object of love, and he avenges himself violently for this: he kills him. But with the realization of that purpose, violence falls.

What about restructuring?

Destructivity is actually the tendency to harm not only others but also yourself. Kills wives, children, and then kills himself. It's a little apocalypse and it's very frequent in families today.

Are we living a time of destructive politics?

There is a desire to wage war, to mask personal situations, to make weapons, to feed nuclear arsenals. There's a war atmosphere, and war is destructivity. I stress: Destructivity is the basic characteristic of our time.

What else are they?

Frustration and uncertainty. We're the society of fear. It's the culture of the enemy.

What does this bring?

This kills hope and faith and promotes privacy.

And then?

Look, there's been a period of reason, the Enlightenments of great ideology, and now...

Now?

Now we have a stupid period.

Why do you say that?

Because he rules irrationality! Do you understand? No sense of ethics. Worse than that... and, as a result of this bullshit, we've got a reaction to a pulmonal man.

I thought we belonged to homo sapiens sapiens.

No! At this historic moment in which absurdism dominates, we are homo Stupidus stupids.

For what reason?

Everybody thinks of themselves. Nobody thinks we're a country and that's bullshit. If man is not stupid today, he cannot live in this society.

How is this situation saved?

Doing as my novel protagonist, going into a beautiful world where there are no conmen. Where there is no man, the gene is stopped on the fifth day, since our Father is very intelligent and in some part of the world he has not made man.

What's the big deal today?

In power. Power today is a fool, as a definition. I use power as words: I can, so do. And I do because I can. Power is the clearest aspect of stupidity.

You considered a man of power?

No. I wrote about no one, the ones with the big “ ”, because in this society there are no fools and these are nobody. I'm nobody, because I don't have any kind of weight.

But you weigh...

Being nobody, I shouldn't take compromises. Nobody is who it is, but it's as if it wasn't. I love this company, the one made up of very beautiful people who don't have any kind of weight.

You don't have any kind of weight, but there's someone, Gene Gnocchi comic, who imitates you on television.

I've seen it before. I view humor and irony as protective. They help people survive. I love mad people, I consider madness wonderful, human, and what I've always wanted is a flawed man. I've always looked for it with a gun: irony. Even though I've never met him, I consider Gene Gnocchi very good.

Years ago, with André Purgator of You made an already historic diagnosis of our country. Can we update this diagnosis?

Italy has only deteriorated, since it has never been cured.

What about the Italians?

We have become happy masochians: we live in constant and serious economic and social danger, but we are capable of having fun.

And then?

We're frustrated. Full of anger. Charles Darwin was talking about instinct, but we're doing regras in a pulse age. Look around.

I do it every day.

There are no ethics already, but there are ethics committees. Domino I and not us. I want this. I love him, I love him, I love him.

In this context, do you believe that violence against women is significant?

From anthropological point of view, the woman has always been the prey of her husband. Solomon, who was the wisdom of the people, said: "The most terrible “that death is the woman, only the God - fearing man can escape, while the sinner is defeated, finished”

What happened next?

Then has Christ come, whom women have respected. It was culture that has given value to women, her fertility, her resistance. But if we fall on the pulmonal male, then the woman comes back and becomes the prey.

Days ago, in Cannes, 83 actresses have passed by in silence, in protest of the cinematographic industry and gender discrimination. What do you think of that global movement that is #Meto and the inevitable consequences that will have on the present?

The woman still needs a strong move. I still remember attending the historic women's march from Central Park to Broadway. But today, a woman should not make the mistake of feminism of the 1970 ' s.

Which one?

To expel the man. Because he did it in the past, there's no way he could grow up. The move, as that older woman, Ida Magley, put it together. Otherwise, the husband will remain culturally disconnected. There's gonna be a little man.

How do you feel?

I'm a sad one.

Can you explain better?

Today, it is only about happiness, but happiness is an individual thing. It's a positive, pleasant feeling, belonging to Un. But joy belongs to a situation that concerns us: Me and the other guy. It's transmitted and obtained, but it's always about a group. Today only fools can be happy.

For what reason?

We belong to a very complex society because the situation of others is not considered. How can you be happy if you see others suffer each day?

I don't know.

I don't appreciate many people, but that man from Nazareth, that man with the “N<x1, he taught joy. But today everything is different.

In what way?

Today, there are no more earth's masters, the imobiliares, but those of mankind. You're very good at Avram Noah Chomsky.

Who are these masters?

The economy depends on about 20 or 25 people. Most no one can barely push it, while some do not know how to live because they have many.

Like what?

Mark Zuckerberg! Next time look at him: he lost $100 billion in one day. And what did he say? It's nothing to me “That's how I get sad and a little angry. And it's good.

For what reason?

For until I continue to be indignant, I will keep writing.

/HuffPost/Preparate: Tirana/Bota arm.al/