Academy of crazies

George called Socrates was a doctor with specialization on psychological disturbs and other pathologies; he repeated that we are other gender of crazies, because we think that we live in normal health condition; his colleagues laughed with these judgments, and he known it but he laughed to them; therefore he was also a passion reader of philosophy, and he red on much books that in Europe very much cultural club were called academy; therefore he checked much town with this name and just he red again what he known perfectly, therefore that name academy is from ancient Greek, and other academies were born during ancient past in Greek land, and after  Italian Renaissance and other academies in Europe. George decided that he founded a academy, but very particular, academy of crazies; every member can say what he want, and give every question; therefore during a briefing with other members he told with a member and he asked: “After your death do you want that people will remember you?”, and Albert, this name of member: “Yes I want that everybody remember me”, and George: “Does somebody has known you remember you now?” and Albert: “I don’t know” and George: “You want that everybody remember you but now very little persons know that you live, and other don’t know it? They not will remember you, because they don’t know that you live” and Albert: “For it I want that everybody remember me, because all know that I have been present”, and George: “It’s right, but you must be known now, so that all remember you after”, and Albert: “Yes”, and George: “Do you have never known Napoleon?”, and Albert: “Yes certainly!”, but do you: “Do you have never been know on person Napoleon?”, and George: “But you remember and you studied Napoleon”, and Albert: “Yes”, and George: “Therefore we will be remember for our worked”, and Albert: “Certainly!”, and George turned to other member of academy and: “Sorry, do you remember Napoleon?”, and this member: “Not, who is?”, and George: “Thank you”, and he was continuing: “May he didn’t red same your books, but it is strange, also very important and historical personality somebody doesn’t know, and certainly Napoleon is more important than you”, and Albert: “If he didn’t red history book is normal that he doesn’t knows Napoleon”, and George: “Aristoteles didn’t know Napoleon, and Aristoteles has red”, and Albert: “But Aristoteles born much before than Napoleon, then is impossible that he known Napoleon”, and George: “Yes but Napoleon didn’t know Aristoteles”, and Albert: “Then?”, and George: “Therefore to be known is momentary, because after everybody will don’t remember you, never; we are at a moment and we live at moment, after all forget us”, and Albert: “Then?”, and George: “Therefore is better that nobody knows than somebody don’t will remember us, because after some moment we are disappeared”. Then Albert said: “You have made very great thing because you have found this academy, because you and other present are crazy”, and George: “Yes, certainly!”   

Alessandro Lusana

Freedom and indipendence

(To my Delia so that of love she hear arduous sentences )

Arthur was a professor of a course of philosophy a model other student, a Socrates today’s, very intelligent and sagacious; he sees all with different eyes, he considered that we could see everything with an interpretation and with other think, this is with other look; in fact he asked always his friends, very little, because he has fame of complicated person and very bother, but he not was so but willing think alone, therefore he give questions to everybody, students, professors, janitors, custodians, principals and others, and he asked always same question: “What is freedom and independence?”, all refused answer and they gone away, somebody stopped him but after he answered: “Not difference”, but Arthur was unsatisfied, this trays were until when somebody, a girl student asked to Arthur: “What’s difference?”, and Arthur answered: “I don’t know!”, and student: “You know it, and you must explain it now!”, Arthur was astonished by this ask, and he said: “Freedom is possibility make what you want, to follow your will, your aspiration, your dreams”, and girl: “Yes, very well, and independence?”, and Arthur: “Everybody thinks that is same thing, but really they are very different”, and girl: “Why?”, and Arthur: “Because independence not is”, and girl: “Why?”, and Arthur: “Freedom is possibility that we have make something, but independence is impossible, because we have a dependence always!”, and girl: “Why?”, Arthur then: “We depend both material and immaterial thing”, and girl: “What are these?”, and Arthur: “We think that we are independent when we have a gain”, and girl: “Certainly!”, and Arthur: “On contrary not!”, and girl: “Why?”, and Arthur: “Because we depend by somebody, at work we depend by employer, at school we depend by teacher or professor, our vote is by teacher or professor, our life depends by job and gain, therefore we have two dependences, one job and second gain”, and girl: “These are material dependences”, and Arthur: “Yes”, and girl: “What are immaterial?” and Arthur: “Immaterial are those things that we don’t see but they are present between our life, those rules not written we respect, this is conventions or conformism, we don’t see it but this is present, and it is very great, but in conformity with told of Musil: “The monument is so big but nobody sees it; we don’t consider that follow convention is useless”, and girl: “But we can follow our spirit and will” and Arthur: “Yes, but our will and spirit are conditioned by convention, then it depends by convention, and we don’t say something because is very contrary use, then conventions, therefore we don’t say and make something because not are used; then we depend by use, but…”, and girl: “But?”, and Arthur: “Convention depends by us!”, and girl: “Why?”, and Arthur: “Because we make convention, and it survives until we will, because when we change convention this falls, when we change habit, convention falls, therefore we depend by conventions e conventions depend by us; therefore nobody is independent, above all who says that he is so”. Arthur then asked girl: “What’s your name?” and girl: “Philosophy as first name and last name Logic, and today I have learned what is human gender, thank you”, and she disappeared like was appeared.

Alessandro Lusana