D.J. TRUMP - CIRCUMSTANCES

The wind is behind, the sun is shining and a high-pressure front holds over us. Circumstances are favourable.

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The old satyr Silenus, Dyonisus’ master and stepfather, got lost in the forest, drunk and dazed. King Midas helped and hosted Sileno for eleven days. As a token of gratitude Dionysus offered Midas his choice of whatever reward he wished for.

The 5th September 1666 the biggest fire ever in the history of London destroyed 13.200 houses, 87 churches and the St. Paul’s Cathedral. Two thirds of the city were burned to the ground.

At the end of the XVI century, William of Orange lead the Dutch revolt against the Spanish crown. The Eighty Years’War ended with the recognition of the Dutch Republic as an indipendent country.

At the beginning of the 70’s Sixto Diaz Rodriguez recorded two albums with Sussex Records. It was a failure that forced him to work in construction sites around Detroit. His songs accidentaly spread across South Africa.

During the summer of 1934, Edgar Jr. Kaufmann, the son of a businessman from Pittsburgh, read the autobiography of Frank Lloyd Wright. He was fascinated by him. Soon after the Kaufmann’s commissioned to Wright a humble project: a small cabin close to a waterfall.

Timely, spacial, favorable, opposite, bad, present, sad, given, mitigating. Could it be just about circumstances?

Midas asked that whatever he might have touched should have been changed into gold. Dionysus’ gift soon turned out to be a curse for the greedy king. It was only the mercy of Dionysus that saved him.

London slowly recovered from the fire. Not anymore wooden houses, but stone and masonry ones. Not anymore a gothic cathedral but a new St. Paul’s. Insurance companies and fire fighters were born in this period. London‘s race to modernity had begun.

Dutch farmers honoured the House of Orange selecting some carrot seeds, typically purple, in order to obtain an orange carrot. The farmers’ political choice became since that moment a very successful one.

In 1997, Sixto’s daughter came across a website on which a South African fan was asking for news about the singer. Sixto Rodriguez is now very well known and a symbol against the apartheid.

Wright designed the house twisting the initial restrictions of any kind: structural, natural, economic. The construction ended in 1937. Fallingwater House became an icon of modern organic architecture.

The 16th June 2015 Donald J. Trump announced his official candidacy for President of the United States at Trump Tower in Manhattan. A little more than a year after, against all odds, he has been elected. United States and Europe are entering a new political era.

But again, it is just a matter of circumstances…

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