WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria #459: Bench - The Kit of Sobedience (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Well before the very latest indications on the now famous survival kit,

even the Bench promised to think sooner or later about a survival kit
useful for hypothetical emergency situations (natural disasters, coups
d'état or other apocalyptic stuff). ---- Between the typical and
adventurous never-sated fantasies of the child who hides inside every
bench and the increasingly pressing dark clouds that have long loomed
over the horizon of the unfortunate society in which we live, imagining
the phantom bundle of escape became almost a ritual appointment.
But since the discussions on the kit became public knowledge, suddenly
pushed and solicited by arrogant political leaders for reasons of pure
personal interest and obvious compromise with lobbies, speculators,
producers of weapons and technological tools of various uses, I lost the
desire.

Indeed, although the suggestions for the kit include objects that I have
always had a weakness for, such as flashlights and radios, I have had
the opposite desire to disobey and fight the anxious instinct, induced
or not, to mentally and then in practice prepare the survival bag.

Instead, I would like to try to imagine a disobedience kit.

On the other hand, I am sure that in any, avoidable, emergency
situations, humanity could rediscover the authentic taste of solidarity
and mutual aid, and that, to put it in a nutshell, someone would bring a
radio and someone else batteries and the same goes for flashlights,
medicines or other things.

Then I would try to think of something unique that I would bring with me
and that I would like to share with other people. For example, I would
bring an issue of Sicilia Libertaria. I would bring my poems and a
couple of books, perhaps one by Jack London and the Trilogia della
rabbia by Bianciardi. I would bring a Super Santos, it might seem
childish but the ball is the ball. And finally I would bring with me
some certainties: to refuse to fight any wars remote-controlled by
sadistic and evil aspiring autocrats, to never let myself be possessed
by the diabolical God of money and to never stop thinking that the
encounter with the other can always be an opportunity rather than a
misfortune.

Francesco P. Maccarrone

https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
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