Кокаинисты
Умберто Эко: " Фантазии о Кокани переводят на уровень живота мечты о справедливости, которые другие вынашивали на уровне духа".
While we certainly are living in an entirely different universe than the medieval peasants dreaming of Cockaigne, it appears that striving to achieve our own dream of utopia-in which everything is accessible through an app on our smart phones-has come with a heavy burden. Rates of depression in highly developed countries are higher than their less technologically advanced neighbors and it seems that the easier it becomes to access our wants the more alienated and sad we are becoming in the 21st century. To support this claim we can cite the rise in “agro-tourism” and the increasing popularity in off-the-grid Air BnB vacationing.It seems as though man-kind will altogether never be satisfied and these medieval images of a magical land of pleasure remind us of that. Maybe it’s a good thing to struggle moderately. I trust Brueghel.
