windmills – small and large, without allowing to see an end

One of last week’s joy – one of the last weeks …

http://theaterspieleglyptothek.de

Is there a mission, a vision ….?

O Ja! Einfach wie Einstmals heiter aus dem Überflusse schöpfend!  O beglückende Zeit, O Zeitalter voll Glück, von unseren Altvorderen das goldene genannt, nicht, weil man damals Gold ohne Müh und Not gewann, nein, sondern weil all jene, die damals lebten, die Wörter Mein und Dein nicht kannten. In dieser segensreichen Zeit waren alle Dinge gemein. Alles damals war Friede, Liebe, Eintracht.

Oh yes! Simply like once cheerfully drawing from abundance!  O joyful time, O age of happiness, called the golden one by our ancestors – not because gold was at hand at easy, without hardship; no, it had been called thus because all those who lived at that time did not know the words Mine and Thine. In this blessed time, everything was common. Everything then was peace, love, harmony.

Ach, Nichtchen, weisst Du denn nicht, wie verhängnisvoll mein Zuhausebleiben fuer die Welt wäre, wenn man an all das Unrecht denkt, das ich zu richten habe, an all die Bosheit, die ich Gutmachen muss und an all die Sünden, die ich zu sühnen auserwählt bin.

Oh, little niece, don’t you know how disastrous it would be for the world if I stay at home – think of all the injustice I have to judge, think of all the evil for which I have to make good for and of all the sins, I have been chosen to atone for.

(From the leaflet Koenigsplatz – Theaterspiele Glyptothek im Innenhof: Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quijote – 17. July to 15th of September – own translation -P.H.)

Well, yes, soon moving on, indeed ….

2 pensieri riguardo “windmills – small and large, without allowing to see an end

  1. Read today’s post as suggested. I get an apocalyptic impression rather than a trustworthy messianic message promising a better world?. Could you kindly, add a paragraph to endow hope into teachers like me who feel that education is a lost battle as it is the last concern for the hegemonic class?

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  2. Today news sound positive about whether a mission, a vision exist. The ministry of education of this government might be an impalpable shade, the students and teachers certainly are not. They reckon the value of education > Grazie ai prof che ci hanno insegnato l’antirazzismo – grateful to our teachers who have taught us values such as antiracism.( see LA REPUBBLICA)

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