Where to flee, if even Paraguay seems to have become Brazil?
Changing places, when we can, may not be enough. Unless the escape route is inwards, to inner exile.
TL;DR
- Emigration to Paraguay for better conditions is questioned due to its own political and financial instability.
- European countries are preparing for crises, not offering refuge.
- Physical escape may not be sufficient; an 'inner exile' is proposed as a more viable solution.
- The concept of inner exile involves finding solace and life within solitude.
- The music of desert blues artists Tinariwen and Songhoy Blues serves as an example of transforming hardship and exile into habitable art.
- The article concludes by emphasizing the need to examine one's inner state and cultivate patience to make any environment, internal or external, habitable.