Steve Piccolo remix of The Reach of Children by Painé and Sergio Messina
If you’re listening to this, you probably have a lot of books in your house
Go ahead, try to pick just one, one book to save from the bonfires.
You can’t do it. Then you realize… what you love and care about, to the point of tears, is the way all these people, these men and women who write books and sing songs and make paintings and dance dances and take pictures, are trying to build something, a tower, a pile of stuff, a huge sheltering dome of words sounds colors
and they know it’s useless, they know we’re doomed as doomed can be but they do it anyway, out of collective self-love, some planetary masturbating narcissism that becomes hateful only when it claims to have a saving value, an earthly purpose… all that stuff will never save the world, all that stuff may even hasten the end of the world, it won’t make us better or nicer or more sustainable or peaceful, it won’t stop wars and genocide, we’re all gonna die anyway and it could never save anything except our souls… if we had souls.