Killing conformism

What exactly is conformism or anticonformism?
For me following progress always means to be anticonformist.
Otherwise, conforming to the actual reality, would mean to be always the same, as it was before, as it is now.
When I faced life as a young woman (but even before, as an unconforming child) I had to fight with a certain phantom.
And that phantom was nothing else than the woman I should have been, following the wishes of the two closest women of my world: my mother and my grandmother.
That woman was to be good, lovely, charming, utterly unselfish.
She had to be the one to sacrifice herself in daily life.
Always a step behind the men in her family.
First her father, then her brother, then her husband.
She never had a mind or a wish of her own, but preferred to sympathize always with the minds and wishes of others.
She was honest, she was brave, she was pure, she was the scapegoat of her family.
She washed the dishes, she cooked, she cleaned, always with the best smile on her face.
She was never tired, never bored, never worn out.
"You are a woman. You have to behave as one.
Be sympathetic, be unselfish, be servile, flatter and deceive if necessary, in a few words, use all the arts of your sex."
But I was not willing to to depend on charm for living.
I felt I had the same rights as every other human being.
I fel angry, I felt frustrated, I felt rebellious.
I turned upon her and shot her.
My excuse, if I were to be had up in a court of law, would be that I had acted in self defence.
Had I not killed her, she would have killed me.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
Killing the woman you should have been was part of the occupation of the women of my generation.
To be able to create a new phantom that the next generation would have to kill.

The politicising of sex

The politicising of sex is the making of women.
I fully and unequivocally accept the idea of equal rights for women.
Not their literal equality,-we have all heard the remark:" vive la difference" only too often-, but their equal rights.
I have known too many brilliant women and too many stupid men to have any doubt at this point.
On the other hand, I have also known a great many stupid women and a great many brilliant men.
And this complicates matters more than somewhat.
The Feminist Movement resembles the Trade Union movement in one important respect.
The trade Unions used to fight against real injustice, greed and exploitation, and every right-thinking man supported their struggle.
Then things started changing. While employers' greed and desire to exploit workers are not entirely matters of a distant past, the Unions have been gaining the upper hand.
In spite of this, some go on fighting old and pointless battles, shouting the battle cries of a bygone age.
Most of them are unable to adjust to fast changing conditions, rethink their posistions and see their still very important role in new lights.
Others go much further.
The once oppressed victims try to become the new oppressors and exploiters.
The extreme feminist sects are no better.
When you suggest that things have improved, they call you a bloody reactionary and a fool.
Many of them have a fanatical dislike of men.
" We have been oppressed long enough" they say, "It's high time to hit back".
Fanaticism of this kind has condemned many revolutions to failure.
If formerly oppressed classes try to become the new oppressor ( which they too often do) then the result, obviously, is not a reasonable and just society, but a reversal of roles between oppressors and oppressed.
This may seem fair at the moment of victory, but clearly it carries in itself the seeds of a new revolution.
The desire to settle old accounts, to punish old oppressors ( and MEN have been oppressors) is understandable, but understanding DOES NOT make it right.

And WHAT about those women who try to remain women in the old fashioned sense of the word?
They have to be educated and converted.
Converted YES, but abused NO.

And what about those MEN who insist on their rights to remain WOMEN in the old fashioned sense of the word?
A more liberal society has been eager to declare: What consenting adults do in private is their own business.
The trouble is that they don't think it so.
The consenting adults have become a vociferous and assiduous minority.
Perhaps their excitement is just reaction to the first breath of fresh air.
Very well, but we have reached the era of the second breath.
They should calm down.
Their problem is not the most important, let alone the only, problem of this world.
Homosexuals, whether men or women, should stop fighting to rule our future.
Their majority role would exclude the very possibility of a future, so, please, tolerate us poor, inartistic, squat, low and unoriginal heteros.
It is just a little tolerance I am begging for. We can't help it either.

What the Internet really is

The first aim of the Internet, even though unknown at that time, was to teach the existing world a lesson.
How to be succesful and widespread without being a Monopolist.

The society before the Internet Revolution can be compared to the French society pre revolution.
Few families ruling the whole econnomic world.
Instead of families we can consider few multinational companies that aim to play every role in the whole actual world.( which of course is much bigger than the world of that time.)

The end to end Networked proved to be more efficient and more succesful than any centralized and monopolized company.
The customers' owned network and customers' made content have many more customers and users than any existing monopoly.

The actual projects of any IPTV or Movie on demand could be seen as rough tries to restore the old market players and the old economic model.
It is a bad copy of the existing business model.
TV broadcasted on the Net instead of via air.
The few advantages would be the possibility of downloading "on demand" and the bigger footprint.
But the huge disvantages would be the need of consuming costly bandwidth, where the existing broadcasting "on air" practically costs the customer the mere price of an antenna on the roof.

But in the True spirit of the Internet, the end to end network, means much more than that, and it is going to revolutionize the old existing way of broadcasting.
Customers' owned network means customers' done broadcasting.
Everybody can become his own broadcaster, providing he knows how to do.
Instead of websites we will have videos, instead of HTML we will use more and more sophisticated compressions and software to produce movies people like to look at.
People learned that it is not amusing any more to be told what to wear, what to think, what to listen, what to look at.
People will want to make theis own content, to forge their entertainments.
And the Internet Revolution will mean exactly that.

VCs of the world, have this in mind when you choose where to invest your money...

To be a real Italian you need to be able to compromise

Wise compromise is one of the basic principles and virtues of the Italians.
It is famous the publisher who from a French political book "The Popular Front" made an exciting, pornographic book called the "The Popular Behind".
And all for Revenues' sake.
The genius for compromise has another aspect too.
It has a tendency to give everything its chance.
It is all right to have windows, and in the North of Europe for example they invented the double windows.
In Italy you must not have double windows, because double windows would indeed stop the wind from blowing right into the room, and, after all, you must be fair and give the wind a chance.
It is all right to have central heating in an Italian home, except the bathroom, because that is the only place where you are naked AND wet at the same time, and you must give Italian germs a fair chance.
The open fire is an accepted, indeed a traditional, institution.
You sit in front of it and your face is hot, whilst your back is cold.
It is a fair compromise between two extremes and settles the problem how to burn and catch cold at the same time.
Italian political life is a huge and non compromising fight between compromising Conservatives and compromising Socialists.

Italy

In Italy most things look different then in the rest of Europe.
They look different, because they ARE different.
In Europe they have good table manners, in Italy we have good food.
In Europe thay have public transportations that work, in Italy we have TrenItalia and AlItalia.
Both are Italians in every small detail.
In Europe the population consists of a small percentage of criminals, a small percentage of honest people and the rest are a vague transistion between the two; in Italy you find a good percentage of criminals and the rest are non honest people.
On the other hand people in the rest of Europe either tell you the truth or lie, in Italy they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.
Many Europeans think life is a game, Italians think life is a soccer game.