Paolo Bolzoni

PLANETARY COUNCIL. A SATIRICAL FARCE IN THE ASTEROID BELT. © Paolo Bolzoni, July 2023 A surreal conversation among the Presidents of the Planetary Federation "At the Edge of the Galaxy". Dedicated to all people who suffer and die due to the injustices and the horrors inflicted by mankind. Plot Planet Gaia/Juno had been plagued for centuries by overpopulation, pollution, misery, bestial violence, and 20 billion fools who lived only for Fakebook. After the first space travel, mankind began to establish colonies on all the other planets in the solar system Sol, an insignificant yellow star at the edge of the galaxy, to escape from the hell of Gaia. The colonies prospered and gave birth to a new mankind. The Planetary Council, chaired by Zeus, holds an extraordinary meeting to decide what to do with the inhabitants of Gaia. 
 All the Presidents of the member planets are present. Invited as observers, are the President of the planetoid Hades/Pl...

De Genus Discrimen - On Gender Discrimination What Did Philosophers Say? Gender discrimination plagued mankind since the dawn of civilisation. Fuelled by ignorance and prejudice, religion played, and continues to play the starring role. In the three monotheistic religions, God is male, the Father, He has a son. 'Bacchus, Tobacco and Venus reduce man to ashes.' This old say is not funny, it is an insulting stereotype to women. At its best, it implies that women are maintained by men, for they are too stupid to contribute to the family. At its worst, it implies that women are toys to buy for pleasure. In this essay, I’ll take you through Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Ancient India, Ancient Israel, Ancient Islam, the Low Middle Age, the Rinascimento, the 17th, 18th (the Enlightenment), 19th, 20th and 21st century, to discover how philosophers dealt with racial discrimination. Starring Socrates, The Greek Atomists, Democritus, Pl...

  De Discrimen Gentis - On Racial Discrimination What Did Philosophers Say?   Racial discrimination plagued mankind since the dawn of civilisation. Fuelled by ignorance and fear, religion played, and continues to play the starring role.   In a German-language letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, dated 3 January 1954, the physicist Albert Einstein wrote: “The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.... For me, the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions . And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.... I cannot see anything “chosen” about them.” It is a great comfort to see that, with ...

You Tube House of Commons, House of Lords     House of Commons, House of Lords Soundtrack “Porta Romana” Underworld Milanese song, XIX century © Paolo Bolzoni, 24 June 2023 House of Commons, House of Lords Where scoundrels lie across the board Promises first and then all the harm Where lies reign supreme told with charm In the Commons Cruella takes the occasion She pretends to save Britain from invasion But she's actually obsessed by hate Chases migrants away and locks the gate In the Lords a Russian oligarch His title comes from bribes, he is a shark And a Baroness, her name is Money A House filled with cheats is not so funny He was a thief and a tax evader before Now he's a Senior Minister with much galore The House Speaker holds a bell Whenever he rings it it’s to stop the hell The Bar of the House is a vicious nest The Home Secretary is the wildest pest Seven and seven and seven make twenty one The snipers are never caught not even one Parliament is built of ancient stones...