Naturism

human landscapes

A long and boring speech, which will certainly dissuade many from reading it, but this is part of the game, precisely to discourage those who are not truly and deeply motivated but are animated only by stupid curiosity.

Let us not reason about them, but look and pass...    - Dante Alighieri -

You have to make your life like you make a work of art.    - Gabriele D'Annunzio -

Naturism means realizing that in contemporary civilization there is a balance error between the forces operating

Today's man is a servant of his own tools, a shciavo of the civilization he himself created: he is the being without health and without peace, the only animal that no longer knows how to live.

- Lamberto Paoletti -

"Naturism was born long before all the current associations that have sprung up in defense of nature. Naturism, with its unsuspected goals, is the most peaceful and revolutionary challenge to the system. ... We fully agree to the defense of the wolf, the bear, and all animal species, of greenery and natural and historical beauty, of artistic and cultural heritage, but we believe we are the most qualified in the defense of man against himself, a defense of which, moreover, no one seems willing or interested in replacing us in its global aspect."

- Ada Coppi Ranieri -

"Nature ... gave man his first garment: the skin; the only one he had to care for most, and he neglected this very thing, to prove right to someone who is not his, and does not make him a man."

- Eugenio Paulin -

"Whoever Naturism tries to counter does so artfully, knowing they are wrong. If a doctor opposes Naturism, he certainly will not do so out of altruism, because if Naturism is disclosed, his profit will cease."

-Giovanni Lopez -

Today, we modern men consider ourselves the best specimens of the human race, the fruit of thousands of years of physical, spiritual and cultural evolution.

But aren't we just a little presumptuous? They instilled in us the idea that progress is a dart shot at mad speed that runs inexorably from the past through the present day, into a radiant future. But if I look around, in everything from cultural to social, moral, political, and spiritual, I see little reason to be so enthusiastic. I see almost zombies around me, I noticed them the other day, many people I meet on the street don't even know how to walk anymore, they look like crawling monkeys, and what's worse is that they're even young! Let's not even talk about freedom. Every day that passes is a step backwards in the rights our grandparents won with hard and bloody struggles, and a step forward towards Orwellian society, where human beings are reduced to empty shells that are worth what they do, economically speaking. Today, indifference and resignation reign, everyone fights just enough for the exclusive interest of their own little garden and in most cases not even for that, and we all let consolidated conquests be plundered from us in total general apathy. Our society has many, but many problems, so it doesn't seem to me that this bolt of progress has taken the right direction. I challenge anyone to claim otherwise.

What does this have to do with naturism? It has to do with it, indeed, because if the world has taken a direction that some of us don't like, it's right to dissociate ourselves from this mass direction, at least ideally it's right to say "no, I'm not in it," and try to take a different direction, at least in our personal lives. Not as a protest, because it would serve no purpose, but as a personal ethic. Now the protest is outdated, often manipulated and exploited, now we simply have to ignore it, take our own path and push forward. To use the words of the great poet: "let us not reason about them, look and pass"... in fact, I would say to simply pass, even without looking. Because there's no point in looking at the ugliness of the world, they only fill us with anger and frustration! If you notice, even modern art, including music, especially music, is ugly, incomprehensible, and distressing, because it's probably part of a plan: to mortify the human soul, to kill it inside first, outside accordingly. In order not to succumb to ugliness and brutality, we turn our gaze elsewhere, even simply towards a flower, a beautiful sunset or a poetic word. A peaceful revolution, beautiful and discreet, but powerful! We should in a certain sense rediscover the value of those things that are dismissed as trivialities, the value of the obvious, of simple, unspectacular, unsensational things. It's not about fighting windmills, but about changing sides, about fighting with ourselves, to maintain our own integrity and consistency with our personal vision of the world and of life, without being swept away by the shapeless current of homologation. A personal choice, which must remain personal and private, but which will necessarily also be reflected in an "absenteeism" from that life and sociality that involves wearing masks and reciting personalities we don't feel belong to.

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