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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
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Loading ...«Waste […] will always follow the economic path of least resistance». Jim Puckett, committed environmentalist
The methodology designed to cut down on processes that do not create added value for a product is based on marginalising waste. This concept is summed up by the Japanese word muda, which means rubbish. for Italian-speakers among us, the term muda taken out of context might evoke Count Ugolino and the Gualandi tower, known as the tower of Hunger, and, even before that, as the tower of Muda. Muda because the tower used to hold birds when they were shedding their feathers. Even birds remove feathers that do not help them look more attractive or help them when flying.
Superfluous feathers. Because in nature, targets coincide with profits. For an Italophile, there is a great deal of unease between kaizen and the thirty-third canto of the Inferno, between continuous improvement and la bocca sollevò dal fiero pasto (the mouth uplifted from his grim repast). We can also add another name – the tower of Waste. Because Ugolino ate another human being, and pines away with grief and the entire world tends to close itself inside along with the damned Count. And we need to write about it.
The topic assigned to the contestants in the “Scritture Giovani” 2007 competition is “Unease”, because it is right that we demand that literature builds us a swaying rope bridge between one language and another, and between a new way of doing business and a poetic legend. Unease is the main road, never to be abandoned even when the echoes of tranquillity, success, and production at any cost transform themselves into sirens with wavy hair and fish tails. Even if you don’t fall in love with it, at least you won’t go hungry.
For the topic “Unease”, I thought of Seven fourteen Twenty-eight and wrote about a woman who thinks she is pregnant and doesn’t know whether or not she wants the baby. It all hinged on the article. first, I want a baby and a second later I don’t want the baby. Because thought alone is enough to change an article from indefinite to definite, transforming a potential concept into a material one. Even if it’s going to arrive nine months later. If it arrives. I wanted to write about the unease of language, of planning, the impossibility of reviewing, the waste of energy in conjecturing a series of approximations. Except human thought proceeds by a sequence of approximations because we cannot be exact, except by chance, but we can be better, yes. Trying all the time. That’s the story of my kaizen.
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