Why do we dream less and less?

An individual and collective sacrifice. A sign of greater loneliness and a lack of desire for the future. Without dreams, life is sad.

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IMPORTANCE OF DREAMS

Why do Italians dream less and less? What has gone dark inside us? Obviously I'm not referring to nocturnal activity, even if we even suffer from it. insomnia of mass, as for thelife energy which comes from a strong ambition, from the idea that life, with all its difficulties, is still a joy to be shared, a project in which to grow with sometimes very high goals. Stuff to dreamsin fact.

You might ask: what good reasons do we have to dream, given the country's economic, social, and political situation? I understand the objection, but I believe it's appropriate to explore the end of dreams with elements that go beyond, before and after, the materiality of life, and lifestyles in general. And touch, for example, on the universe of desires.

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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO HAVE DREAMS?

Desire has died out. How many times have we heard this sentence, which burns inside like a freshly stoked fire? Individual desire has died out not only as a factor of eroticism, but even as energy, fuel, essential gasoline, of a life inspired by change, to the desire to change something, from income to lifestyle, from physical health to spiritual well-beingAnd the collective desire has faded, let's think of the Italians in these terrible years, since the outbreak of the Great Crisis, still not fully over, in a time of feverish, and heavy if not dramatic, epochal change. That desire which instead, just like Italians, has made us great, giving us well-being, serenity, success, social lift. And not the fear of today, of the immigrant who arrives anyway and of the jobs that probably won't exist unless we invent something.

SAD LIFE WITHOUT DREAMS

Igor Sibaldi, a singular intellectual who mixes translations of Tolstoy's novels and the Gospel of John, with theology, philosophy and psychology, has written a truly interesting book, entitled The World of Desires: 101 Projects of Freedom (Tlon editions).

In this text, among other things, Sibaldi reminds us of an essential element for returning to desire, to dream, to believe in something truly strong, when we are surrounded by the sirocco wind of cynicism, indifference, and skepticism. And that is the fact that "wishing is an act of freedom, a creative gesture, a journey into the unknown."

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STOP DREAMING

Everyone can have a method to rediscover desire, and Sibaldi indicates his in this book, but the important thing, and if you want preliminary, is to mature the awareness of the fact that a life without desires, and dreamless, which then translates to an existence without passions, is sad, poor, condemned to fade away, long before biological death. It is a wasted life.

WHY DO WE DREAM LESS?

One of the reasons why we dream less, or feel like we dream less, is the isolation we live in. So much so that we even speak of the "end of dreams," both individual and collective. In both cases, the dream it dies out in its infancy, crashing against the wall of the narcissism and indifferenceWe don't see others, our heart is closed, hope (which sometimes coincides with dreams, with an even utopian idea of ​​the future) fades to the point of becoming sadness, fear, isolation. Feelings that are well suited to technological dependence. Thus, from a collective perspective: we have gone from the great dreams of entire generations, tainted with the poison of ideologies, to aphasia, to disinterest in any dimension that transcends individual relativism. Even morality, corresponding to the loss of meaning and value of any formative authority (the parent, the teacher, the priest), has been reduced to a do-it-yourself outfit that each person feels free to wear as they see fit. In these conditions, there is no room for dreams, also because we dream together, with others, and not against others, as Pope Francis reminds us in an appeal. And dreaming with others also means creating strong bonds between generations, never ceasing to weave the thread of memory, of a grandpa Having experienced the tragedy of war, we can always learn the value of peace, in a historical period in which we have too easily taken it for granted. Only to discover, as in the case of the invasion of Ukraine, that the risk of conflict is always high and is knocking on our door, not too far away.

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