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Argomentative text about three quotations from Tweet
di un discorso amoroso
by Roberto Cotroneo:



·         
Le
regole dell'attrazione le cercano tutti ma sono le regole della distrazione le
pi
ù
interessanti, ma non le cerca nessuno.



·         
Il
senso della misura
è incommensurabile in questa modernità.
Il pudore
è un'intermittenza dello stile.



·         
I
ricordi indietreggiano sempre: come fa il tempo quando lo vai a cercare. Poi
quando li metti con le spalle al muro sanno
raccontarti tutto.





In the italian
language the verb ‘'distrarre'' means to take someone's attention off and also
to entertain.



It is interesting
to notice that the adjective ‘'distratto'' is usually translated with
‘'absent-minded'' but in fact it means ‘'self-absorbed''. On the other side the
verb ‘'attrarre, attirare -  to attract
''  means to attract someone's attention
and to negate someone's self-absorption. Cotroneo says that everybody searches
for the rules of attraction and it is a statement that can be applied to
different contexts: human relationships, politics, advertising, mass media,
market...



What is important
to say is that to attract someone is easier and gives much more results in
short time (generally speaking) than to distract someone. Mass media or
advertising for example want to attract people, to impose them something they
don't necessarily need. They don't want people to be self-absorbed and
thoughtful, they want people to be immediately attracted without going in
depth. Because if a person goes in depth and becomes reflective, he would take
his attention on his self and not on what an advertising is trying to sell.
Self-absorbed people are dangerous because they cannot be easily attracted and
they are more focused on ‘'beeing'' than ‘'having''. To distract someone
implies that you have to take someone's attention off (not to catch it!) so
that he can take his attention on his self. The rules of distraction could also
be used by advertising but it would take too much time and it wouldn't be so
effective. The rules of attraction can be applied to masses, the rules of
distraction don't, they change for every single individual.  The second quotation wants to say on one hand
that the values of our liquid society are changed and on the other that values
lost their consistency because appearance ( not just physical) and style became
very important. The verb ‘'to search for'' is used in the fist as in the last
quotation and in my opinion they are connected. The Search for time, memory,
attraction, distraction. To distract requires time, either to catch your
memories. Everybody knows what psychology (Freud in particular) says about
memory, repression/removal...but Mr Cotroneo may want to underline that we have
to take our time, to distract us before approaching our memories in order to
discover something. Memories seems to draw back if you search them ...so you have
to face them.