Yesterday the Corriere della Sera published an article by Salman Rushdie that I really liked. The shape is that of a harsh criticism of The Millionaire , but it seems clear that Rushdie has not only mistreating a mediocre film, and inconveniently scoundrel. This is the final piece: "What are the things that we consider essential in our lives? The answer may be: your children, your daily walk in the park, a drink, read, work, vacation, the team, a cigarette, love. But life is forcing us to many second thoughts. Children they go home, we move away from our beloved park, the doctor forbids us smoking and drinking, we lose sight, lose the job, there are no money or no time for a vacation, our team is a landslide and the heart is shattered. In those moments our world picture hanging askew on the wall. Then, if we make it, we adapt. And finally, we understand that the essence is something far deeper, is the force that keeps us going. The twelve distinct species of finches that Charles Darwin discovered in the Galapagos Islands were all adapted to local conditions, but when the ornithologist John Gould examined samples of Darwin in 1837, he realized that it was not of birds of different species, but of twelve varieties of the same bird. Although random mutations and natural selection, their 'finch', or their essence, remained intact. As individuals, communities and nations, we adapt and we are constantly forced to us the question: What is our "finches"? What are the things that we can not give up, or risk losing the identity? This we learn from the poets who translated the poems of others, from writers and directors that turn words on the page images on the screen, all those that ferry across something: the adaptation works best when it is a true transposition between the old and new, done by people who know both deeply. In other words, to succeed, the process of social adaptation, cultural and individual, just like the adaptation of art, must take place freely, without restrictions or constraints. Those who cling to the old text with excessive zeal, the thing to adapt the old ways, the past are condemned to produce something that will not work, unhappiness, alienation, split, failure, loss. Entire societies at risk of losing their way through a wrong process of adaptation. In an attempt to save themselves, are likely to oppress others. Hoping to defend themselves, are likely to affect its those who believed freedom threatened. Champions of freedom, are likely to erode the freedom of themselves and others. In times of rapid change like the present, the moving company will flourish - as with all successful adaptations - if they can identify exactly what is essential and not negotiable, that all their citizens have to accept as the price of their shares. For many years now, and I say this with pain, we live in an era of bad social adjustments, and compromises made on the one hand, the excesses of arrogance and coercion on the other. We can only hope that the worst is over and that the future will reserve the most beautiful films and musicals, and better days. "
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