#iorestoacasa, it's time for happy laziness, let's take advantage of it - Lifestyle

Emergency, fear, contagion, restrictions. These are the words that bounce daily in our mind in these times of struggle against the coronavirus, an invisible but deadly enemy. "The media are sending us back to a much more complex scenario, where all the anxieties, contradictions, principles, values ​​of contemporary society have become radicalized" Gianfranco Marrone, an essayist and writer, professor of Semiotics at the University, tells ANSA of Palermo who analyzed the language and behavior at the time of the fight against Covid-19.
"We have heard of conspiracies, alarms, fake news, but in a hysterical way, with opinions of experts who fight with each other, not to mention politicians without control". A sort of collective psychosis in a part of the population? "My impression is that the pandemic has created an upside-down world where everything is turned upside down - observes the scholar - in a kind of very sad carnival: rich countries are more unlucky than poor ones, Nordic coldness is better than Mediterranean heat, the distance between people is more suitable than the contact of bodies, isolation is better than socializing, staying at home is better than going out, the network replaces the square, the online takes the place of the paper. of the anxieties about the contagion itself, it seems to me that we have lost every point of reference: it is all the other way round ".
A situation that causes distrust and distancing between people? "One of the things that is weighing more on people - the semiologist replies - is this imposition to keep the distance, even between family members or within the couple, is a sign of an interpersonal relationship. Keeping at a distance means also moving away emotionally , and vice versa. Every distance has a meaning. What is happening today, therefore, is that by changing the distances the meanings also change.
Today we love people who are three meters away from us: but what kind of affection is it really? Are we all becoming anaffective? ". And of course this affects daily life which is faced in a different way from the past, with greater emotional stress?" It seems to me that the most serious problem is not to be locked in the house, but to change the rhythm of our existence. There are those who can not, and for example remain in pajamas all day, men who do not shave, or women who do not wear makeup, there are those who watch the news in a maniacal way, keep the television on day and night. And there are those who instead try to keep the rhythms of before, improvising gyms in the living room, wearing jackets and ties to show themselves on the computer video, insisting on making meetings on Skype meetings. The most difficult thing is to invent new rhythms, to find new forms of affection with those who are at home with us or with whom we can only hear by phone, changing the percentages between work and free time, finding a new sense in doing nothing. It's time for happy laziness, let's take advantage of it. "