| WE ARE ALL AMERICANS |
| Felicia Pioggia - 11/9/2006 |
What would the 11th Septyermber 2001 victims write in order not to forget? The history, the real one, is what the protagonists tell: they are the ones who have been hurt in their own flesh. Laura Clarks gives them her pen - she also has lost a beloved one in that occasion - to put together the memories of people and make them speak. The ones who have lost their life, the ones who have lost their job during the crisis after the crash down of the Twin Towers and also the ones who have known an increasing intolerance towards strangers. The paradox is that her book titled “ Voices from Ground Zero” let the most glaring and devastating terroristic action of the history launch a message of courage and love, a real counter-trend with the world’s cynicism. A world which still thinks in an analogic way (1+1=2) while everything is now digital (1+1= unidentified variations) where the result changes depending on the different the starting points . A world which is suffering of auto-cannibalism because it still believes that the only real low is the one of the more cunning sellers and buyers, doesn’t matter what, doesn’t matter to whom, it only matters to gain hoards of wasting paper in change of the most inexorable, progressive, growing lost of memory, knowledge and humanity. Terrorism is like love: it is born in the heart of desires, it becomes real in the words we exchange among people and it shows itself in the respective, diametrically opposite, deflagrating consequences.
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