30 minutes with a philosopher, conspiratorial, kind taxi driver
The theories you don't expect from those you don't expect. Taxi drivers, a window on the world that is not yours. Diana Zuncheddu's post
When he goes out to help me with the suitcase, I still don't have the mask on. He doesn't have it either, so I think I can think about it later. He will be a sports taxi driver, on the virus.
He has suede shoes, a light rain jacket, dry and with short white hair, beautifully shaved. I expect him to be a father of a family who wants to talk about his children. At least he is nice, I'm sleepy.
"Where is it?"
"Linate, thank you".
“Ah, I wanted to inform you that tomorrow, even if the newspapers do not say it, there will almost certainly be a national strike for taxi drivers. If he goes to Rome and has to look for a taxi tomorrow, he won't find one ”.
"I'm not going to Rome".
“Ah here, well since the newspapers love us, they don't give our news”.
"Why are you protesting?"
“Eh you know because of all this illegality. Now there are taxi cars arriving from the East, they don't pay taxes in Italy, and I don't tell you the prices they charge ”.
“I never take an unofficial taxi, rather the car2go”.
“Eh but the others know .. it's all a system. A system to impoverish us all and control ourselves better ”.
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The voice is calm, cordial, with the window a little open despite the rain, I don't hear all the words, but I never ask him to repeat. Under the mask, which he has now raised over his nose, he has kind eyes that often laugh. He laughs often too. That slightly silent chuckle, it sounds British. Never broken down. I would not see him in the square protesting. Often taxi drivers are a window into a world that is not mine.
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“Why so all those who control the world debt, central banks, etc., sooner or later will launch the virtual currency, and will tell you: ah, you have 1000 euros? From tomorrow it is worth a coin, a coin. And what are you doing. Nothing. Because you know, it's all connected. I inform myself. I follow these economists, who do not speak, but explain the whole system. Interesting. Haha. The green pass , you know, is also part of the game. The green pass is the first step and then tells you: do you have a green pass? Then you can spend, and earn. Don't have a green pass? Then you are out of society. It is the first attempt to better control ourselves. In Italy we are ahead, of course, because we are the guinea pig. We are guinea pigs. They decide everything, they pass the decisions on our heads, haha, you know these mercenary politicians, all sold out. They are mercenaries ”.
“The green pass, however, is allowing us to reopen, to return to a normal life”.
“Eh but you know, so then they control us. It seems strange, but better to know the mechanisms behind it. He knows how when one says: the guardian angel. It makes you laugh. Maybe you don't believe it. Instead Plato had talked about it before, the soul is born with a nearby daemon who directs you, guides you, and what is it if not the guardian angel? If you follow him, maybe he leads you to fulfill your destiny, which maybe is to die soon, if instead you try to oppose it, you get sick, maybe you die even earlier. Then there is the history of the cave, do you know the history of the cave? "
"No".
“Oh well but then you don't know hot water. The cave, Plato tells that all men are tied up and inside a cave they see only the shadows on the wall, thanks to the light they have behind them, then one manages to untie and goes out, and is blinded by the light, and then he sees the wonderful world that he exists, and when he comes back to tell others about it they kill him, haha, they kill him. Like Dante, all to say what a genius, Dante, but Plato had arrived first. To tell the second most important myth, of the god who descends into the world of the dead and then returns to tell it. Interesting, haha. She reads?".
"Unfortunately little, when I have time".
"What do you read?"
"Novels".
“Ah no, I too wise, now I'm reading the 'code of the soul', in fact, you see, haha, what I'm telling you. Of course, sometimes novels are needed, something light, do you have favorite authors? ".
"The Jews, even the American Jews, and the Russians."
“Ah the Russians, well Anna Karenina a tragic story, mamma mia. But also Crime and Punishment. There is always a spiritual streak in these Russians anyway, don't you think? Maybe there is also in the Chinese but we do not know, there is the dictatorship, we know little, even in Russia then the dictatorship arrived, it crushed everything. I haven't read 'War and Peace', they gave it to me, but you know it's long, I didn't have the courage to start, but I know the plot, eh, I've seen the film. Have you read it? "
"Yup".
"Beautiful?"
"Very. You start it, then you take it and it will reach the end, you will see ”.
“Eh in fact I have to find the courage, sure that talking about these things at 7 in the morning, here is this entrance okay? Alitalia? ".
I wanted to tell him that Alitalia is gone. I wanted to tell him that with those kind eyes he could read more novels than essays by economists who do not speak, but he came down to help me with the suitcase, it was raining, the entrance in front of which he let me out is still closed, and I started walking towards the right entrance.
At 7 this morning.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/30-minuti-con-un-tassista-filosofo-complottista-gentile/ on Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:30:25 +0000.