The Bitch Knows More For Being Old Than For Being A Devil

Dear Insane Minds:

I have seen again, for the umpteenth time and something, the documentary Amy about the life of the Winehouse.

This time I have been hooked on a phrase that Tony Bennett says, reflecting on what he would have wanted to say to Amy who, as you know, died at 27 years of age from a lethal mixture of beast capitalism, violent patriarchy, toxic Disney love (oxymoron ) and associated chemical substances, such as alcohol, cocaine, crack …

Tony Bennett’s phrase was: life teaches you to live it, if you live long enough to learn.

And yes, life has to be survived. I would say that every time it gets easier but that is not true at all, bad that we weigh.

What it does get is more understandable, more intelligible, as each time the film sounds more like the same film, more like a déjà vu that Shakira sings referring to something else.

And you have more and more tools to relativize the relativizable and to give space to things that are transcendent, because you understand their transcendence. And that teaches you to better choose your battles, to know what trouble to get into and which ones to let go of because totally …

Okay, that’s my experience after 45 years in the shed. But, like everything else, our experiences have parts shared with the big shed, with what we call The System, tachán.

They make it very difficult for women from the global north to take advantage of that experience, because they do not stop sending us messages so that we hate our age, our experience, our journey.

Let’s see, you don’t have to be very smart to understand that the less experience it is easier to sell motorcycles. Fortunately, the goddesses give youth another tool, which is anger. But when anger (which is not anger) calms down, because you cannot survive eternally in a state of anger, or because life is very tiring in a perpetual state of anger (not anger, which is something else and I hope we always keep it ) the other comes: the fox.

What more does the devil know as an old woman than as a devil. Age gives you cleverness, which is not intelligence, it is something else.

Old women are a danger to the system. I don’t say it, the system says it. How do you say it? Well, putting constant obstacles for old age. He wants us to constantly act as if we were young but without the fury, which also penalizes us infinitely.

He wants us to be constantly in the dark, as if we had not seen the movie a thousand times, as if we had to buy the same motorcycle over and over and over again, as if life had not taught us to live it.

In worlds where old women still preserve their social space, there is the possibility of transmitting knowledge between one and the other. A knowledge that goes in all directions: the cleverness of the many years and the fury of the few put to work together are unstoppable. That is why they separate us into a closed category since we are born. Each one with their age.

The older ones infinitely criticizing the young women because in “our” times I don’t know what didn’t happen or how many, the young people criticizing the older ones because they are over the top.

And so it goes.

That is another of the great bikes that we have bought. But, once again, the process is reversible from today. Shall we get down to it?

Happy week, Minds!