By Alessandro Baricco
From considered one of Italy's most precious literary voices, a manifesto at the kingdom of world tradition and the way connectivity is altering the way in which we event it. For the gatekeepers of conventional excessive tradition, the increase of younger formidable outsiders has certainly appeared like not anything in need of a barbarian invasion. during this concise and strong manifesto, Alessandro Baricco explores a handful of nation-states which have been "plundered"-wine, football, track, and books-and extrapolates that it isn't a case of previous values opposed to new yet a common mutation that we're all a part of, major towards a distinct means of getting studies and growing that means.
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The first is probably the easiest one to see. The decline in quality has coincided with an increase in quantity. Ever since there’s been a simple, spectacular wine in circulation, there are more people around who drink wine. In this case, as in many others, the loss of soul seems to be the price to pay for expanding a business that would otherwise be in trouble. Put simply, intense commercialization equals loss of soul. It’s an important point, and it buttresses one of the great commonplaces that have always simmered beneath the fear of barbarians: the idea that they represent greed as opposed to culture; that they must be motivated by a hypertrophic, almost immoral thirst for gain, sales, and profits.
The apparent result: soccer loses its soul. What do you think? It seems to add up, more or less. That’s good news. We’re starting to acquire some vaguely reliable tools of interpretation. We’re starting to be able to bring into focus, and fairly rapidly, the whole animal, in motion. May I help you out for a moment in this endeavor by setting down, beside the animal itself, an old black-and-white photo? In keeping with Leopardi’s famous evocation, Sunday evenings, in the homes of Italian Catholic middle-class children in my day, were moments of sedate tragedy.
To make everything happen in any part of the field, you have to run fast, play fast, think fast. Middlingness is fast. Genius is slow. Middlingness allows ideas and actions to circulate faster through the system; genius, deep within the noblest of individuals, breaks up this rhythm. A simple brain transmits messages faster; a complex brain slows them down. A contemporary player makes the ball spin; a Baggio makes it disappear. And he casts his spell over you, of course; but it’s the system that needs to live, not him.