Conversations with DANTE
about the art to send ‘pobres-diablos’ to the Hell with poetical elegance!
Today, when even the prominent people of the
world use to send others to the hell in the most unintelligent and easy way, Who can deny that you, Dante Alighieri,
have been the great master in the art to do so within grandeur and sacred style?
I remember my first encounters with your ‘Divine Comedy’ and a kind of jealous you
provoked me when I realized this should be a nicer and most therapeutic way to
exorcize our demons sending our enemies to the place each of them deserve -not
literal but literate… Keeping up the idea that if they are smart enough perhaps
they could be able to upward their souls a little bit or, why no, rise them to
the perfection, give my soul a kind of relief. I’d learned that following your
steps it is possible go onwards from the lowest of the steps (Inferno) to the second
one (Purgatorio) where we can be freed and able to arise from outward
ceremonials and observances to a spiritual worship and then, going on and on,
we could get the third step: the Knowledge (Paradiso), endowed by which with supernatural insight,
we become like the angels around the throne, and have but one farther step to
take before we reach the goal and become one with God. It leads me to an image
of the divine made human, to teach me how the human might also make itself
divine.
Use our intelligence and talent as a wise
alchemist, transforming our frustration and anger in something really poetical
and productive -as your immortal poem- has to be the real essence, the deepest
meaning of art and perfection. It is true Dante, that your originality consists in your not allowing any divorce between
the intellect and the soul in his highest sense, in your making reason and
intuition work together to the same end of spiritual perfection.(James Russell
Lowell, Among my Books-Dante)
But, in my real-life many times the things work
different, even when I think that I am ready to reach… a flash of lightning wherein came its wish… the real-life comes again
to challenge me with his awful reality-show-business… Yesterday’s morning I really wished to have
your talent when again and again, not for days neither weeks neither months,
but for more than three years, I have being confronted with the same idiot who
is calling in the name of Microsoft trying
to catch me in order to ‘ransomware’ the information of my computer and kidnap
my database asking for money via the Western-Union
in ex-change. ‘Go to the hell, hijo de puta!’ It was my hysterical reaction
when a little tired to listen the telephone ringing ones again I decided to
answer it and, of course, who else?... The same ridiculous Indian voice calling
me Madam and bla-bla-bla. And yes, of course, one second later, I’d understood my own stupidity, Why I was sending
this man to the Hell when the most obvious thing is that someone who does this
kind of dirty jobs has to be already living in the Inferno? Otherwise how can I
explain myself the fact that someone has accepted to do something so insane for
a living?
And it was when your lessons came to be more alive, master! I thought and again wonder how sad could be the real story of these kind of people? So, Dante, tell me how can I send people to the Hell when they are already slumdogs in the hands of any kind of ‘pobres Diablos’? More I think more questions are coming to me… How , why, what for? And again the big one question mark… How -in a Big Brother’s cage all of us are living at the moment- could these kind of ‘pobres diablos’ be able to go and come free without any control? Where is the police, the intelligence agencies, the hackers at the State’s service? What is the role of companies as Microsoft or Western-Union in this sort of cybercrime? And more than that, What is the role of the governments against cybercrime? How is possible that these kind of stories are vox-populi but the institutions and agencies who really must and can do something do nothing? Where are the laws against cybercrime? And yes, at this step, I remembered exactly what kind of rich-demons were the ones you used to send to the deepest rings of your Inferno and I have to laugh again and again… Meanwhile… my I-phone is ringing and I can see in the display that the one who is calling is, again and again, an unknown! Master, tell me please, How can I help these ‘pobres diablos’ to get out of the infernal rings of the richest-demons or biggest fishes they are serving as slaves? I want the big fish, they are the ones who really deserve to pay the bill or to be send to… right there! But, who knows, It is also true that the most of them, more-or-less billionaires, are also living within their own misery even if their Infernos are looking as beautiful as a Taj-Mahal! So, please, leave in peace! I have angels to protect me against your motherfucker Indian-Demons!
Carmen Socorro Ariza-Olarte
