What Color is The Night? – Giorgio Agamben

The criterion set by the government to determine the color of our life is 50 “cases” out of 100,000 per week.

From a statistical point of view this is an extremely low risk percentage, equal to 0.5 per thousand.

How is it possible for that men, for a risk that remains low even if is projected for the whole year, can agree to renounce not only to their freedom, but also to everything that makes life worth living: contact with other beings human, to the gaze placed on their faces, to the memory and the holidays joyfully celebrated together?

Watchman, what color is the night?

January 25, 2021

Source: Giorgio Agamben – QUODLIBET

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