At the airport. Difficult to find a seat not facing one. At Stazione Termini, aligned by the dozen along the rails and blurring the information on departures. In the underground, vomiting hideous advertising. In any trattoria, restaurant, fast food, sandwich bar. At the hairdresser’s. At a public hospital, a giant version, while the rest of the infrastructure is crumbling down. In the ikea-cosy lobby of a doctor, a discrete version but even more dangerous, percolating Maria de Filippi. And immediately after, in a patisserie, a bigger version trickling down quiz and afternoon games on innocent maritozzi, brioches and montblancs.
Flat TV screens are everywhere in Italy. They have invaded all public, semi-public, private, commercial places as well the usual non-places. It’s good there are not yet flat TV screens in the offices!! Safe haven!
That’s why we eliminated TV from home. It’s true, it would be nice sometimes to have a look to a nice movie, a reportage by France 2 or the news from ZDF to check what was the weather like in Berlin.
But in Italy there are too many screens. Even if you don’t look for them, they will find you. We are surrounded. We need detox.
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