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I'm passionate about

The idea that the world could be changed. I've been trying a bit to do that with Art. I could see thatsome things are possible to achieve - so maybe trying more would make clear that everything is.

An idea worth spreading

Fear and Hope — those are the names of the two great passions which rule the race of man, and with which revolutionists have to deal; to give hope to the many oppressed and fear to the few oppressors, that is our business; if we do the first and give hope to the many, the few must be frightened by their hope; otherwise we do not want to frighten them; it is not revenge we want for poor people, but happiness; indeed, what revenge can be taken for all the thousands of years of the sufferings of the poor?

(William Morris - Signs of Change, 1888)

Talk to me about

Political systems, Art, Cinema, Ecology, Change and Human beings.

People don't know that I'm good at

Finding connections.

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• A comment on Talk: Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood

  Jan 19 2013: I completely agree on this!
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  A comment on Conversation: Is God energy?

  Jan 3 2013: Hi Toby
  I would suggest you this talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html and to read the book from Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" It is really inspiring and important to reflect on that with solid bases like these.
  Happy new year
  Lorenzo

• A reply on Conversation: What is your new year's purpose to get the world in a better shape?

  Jan 3 2013: Happy new year to you too! And good luck!

• A reply on Conversation: What is your new year's purpose to get the world in a better shape?

  Jan 1 2013: :)

• A reply on Conversation: What is your new year's purpose to get the world in a better shape?

  Jan 1 2013: This si a great plan, I would like to have more informations on your project and see your works. I do the same, I'm an indipendent film director and writer. If you want I can help from distance anyway! ;)

• A reply on Conversation: What is your new year's purpose to get the world in a better shape?

  Jan 1 2013: Answered :)

• A comment on Conversation: What is your new year's purpose to get the world in a better shape?

  Jan 1 2013: As Fritzie asked me I'm turning the question on myself.
  
  I think I'm going to continue following what I was starting this year, trying to define a line of work in what I do, so Cinema. I'm working on some projects and I'm trying to find ways to use ideas for the common-wealth and social change. I'll try to write, to get informed, to communicate and to discuss things with everybody really. It is big I know, but I'm sure of starting from little things that can give great achievements as they did for myself in the past.

• A reply on Talk: Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war

  Jan 1 2013: It is not a problem of what would change, it is something they have in their right, that's the importance of giving the Black Hills back to them. Start from that and maybe if you want to help more I think you can.
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  A comment on Talk: Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war

  Jan 1 2013: I think this speech is amazingly important, I already saw the article with Aaron's pictures on National Geographic. This topic is not known so much here in Italy. I've been getting informed in these past months and trying to talk about it around and nobody seems to know anything about this.
  
  I hope that at least in the USA people know something about it but I have serious doubts that it is known as it should be. This is something that does not surprise me or anybody I guess - for USA being the most corrupted thought and devastating country on the planet since lots of decades.
  
  Give the Black Hills back to Lakotas immediatly and try to do something respectful for human kind at least on your own national ground.
  
  (just to make it clear I'm talking about governamental policies and not about american people, that's the reason why I think that there is still a bit of hope)

• A reply on Conversation: Education kills Curiosity.

  Dec 31 2012: Yes this is true. Or better, it is half true. The potentials that teachers have to "tap into students' curiosity" it is not completely used from most of them. Well, some of them may do a good work, but the educational system I was talking about doesn't allow them to move in every kind of directions. Not allowing them to go into every direction is like giving some boundaries which make impossible for them to do anything really. A programme that is decided from a commission that usually works at national level will always uniform people between themselves, so personal curiosity gets very limited. You can do that if you are strong as a "student", or I would call it "person", but even if you are a strong teacher maybe the way you could do something is not working with the rest of the limits they give you.