Crisis is a short word with long consequences. For ordinary people, those who restrict themselves to implementing the orders of the strongest, it's just a storm that they hope will soon pass. For those who govern with cynical attention for this theater, is the perfect script for a reorganization of the world. They shout the word “crises”, but in reality they are just tightening the screws of the social device. Thanks to the crisis they can force people to work harder for less, they can throw the mask of smile, show their sneer and punch hard, and because of the crisis, people will bear even that. The same day that Bill Gates, one of these great man lit by darkness, has donated 250 million dollars to the Rotary Foundation, has also fired 5000 employees. Ah! The crisis! A few days after Boeing fired 5000 workers also invoking “the crisis”. But nobody says that if it were not for the empty-headed management that decided to invest huge sums in the failing developing of a new mega airplane, perhaps not all those people would have been redundant. Lehman Brother, Chrysler and other bad company orderly follows. Ah! The crisis! The true fact is that we have forgotten how to look at people. Just by looking at the faces of those who govern us how can you believe that this world is heading in a good direction? How do you think that people with a hard muzzle will do something good? They do good things for themselves, but even this is a debatable issue. They are under anesthesia and know nothing about the true, real life. I traveled a lot and I saw many people and many places, but rarely have met managers or people of power who were good people, people capable and genuine. Those “power people” are generally social climbers, small souls, and poor individuals --often ridiculous. But it is in the hands of these people that we put our future. And no tiger is never so dangerous as a small and ridiculous human being.
(© Sergio Caldarella, 2009)
