A Message To Readers, Writers And Commenters Of Countercurrents.org
By Francis Allenby
26 September, 2013
Countercurrents.org
Dear contributors and writers of COUNTERCURRENTS.ORG.
My name is Francis and I have been interested in politics since I was 16 and I was a member of the Student Movement. However, it has been only for 6 years that I have started to write and comment, as a simple man in the street, the facts of politics. Although I am 53 I believe, however, and rightly, that I am just an amateur in everything I do, from painting to writing: I do things with the spirit of the laborer, the worker who only uses different working tools, totally aware of my limits and my mistakes. For this reason, with deep modesty and humility, I have a question to ask to anyone who is truly a professional in this field, because has been doing this for a longer time.
I noticed that people are little or nothing involved in things written about the social and political sphere: I noticed it by the lack of comments and by the quality of the few comments that I read. Once there was censorship, supported by the strong powers, the frontal attack by the ones who were the men in charge. Now they can succeed with a different technique: by hiding uncomfortable messages, by making sure that these messages do not appear on the major newspapers, in the mainstream media, those that the powers that be want people to read in order to make sure that their opinion is consistent to the system. So it's as if one did not say anything, as if one did not speak at all. Is it a wrong impression? And I also wonder: how much people understand of what is written?
Thank you in advance for the attention you will pay to my message and for your courtesy; let me add that my state of mind, in these circumstances, is that of a person who knows deeply the suffering of discrimination, the problems of the working class, and who feels a deep sadness for not being able to communicate them.
Greetings to all
Francis
Francis Allenby was born in Taranto, in 1960. He got the certificate of schoolteacher, but never practised teaching and preferred earning his living with all sorts of jobs. He started painting as a boy and refined his technique at an Art studio. He writes articles, as a free commentator, and novels. Francis Allenby has published a collection of short gothic stories, THE TALES OF THE STORM, and a novel in Italian: LO STOLTO DI CARDIZZINI (The fool of Cardizzini).
email me at : [email protected]
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