Pensando Navigando

aria by Claudio Parrini

Translation from the Italian text by Professor McCraw:

Thinking, navigating (making my way)

That my identity can be made multiple (multiplied) I already know;

I have tried (sought) this in oneiric space and at the same stime in reality.

Now I ask myself (wonder) what is happening in cyberspace:

is it really like an immense, beautiful court

where our personalitity (personhood, self) doesn't then fill so much space,

rather I would say that I am not, compared to others, in this way very strong;

at least for now this comparison

having opened in the Network almost all the doors.

And this is why I wish for myself a happy meeting

between philosophers, political leaders, artists, social thinkers and all the others

in such a way that no one will beleive it a great clash:

already in the real world there is too much mourning;

making greater every day the pain and anxiety of the human journey.

Therefore I give notice to all the Great Powers

that for every war always they furnish the fodder (cannon fodder):

"Be less absorbed in yourselves, let us live well,"

otherwise we virtual communities will launch sabotage against you.

 

(To Libretto)