Yokohama Geolander G91

Teenage wasteland

When asked about the definition of civil society, Internet replied that "civil society is an aggregation of citizens related to their coexistence in one state, in which case the adjective civil implies achieving a high degree of material civilization and spiritual . The term civil is derived from the Latin civis = citizen. "

A good reason someone might object that this definition is no longer in step with the times. Let us reflect on, say, the simplistic and outdated concezione liberale per cui "una società  non è altro che  la  mera somma degli individui che la compongono" , suggerirei di fermarci un passo prima della concusione collettivista , che considera i soggetti collettivi (società, Stato, nazione, classe, razza, partito) come entità autonome .

Perché la verità sta sempre nel mezzo, non per altro.

Accade però che, nel  discorso sulla costruzione di una nuova definizione di società civile, mi trovi molto più a mio agio con interlocutori virtuali, perché le persone purtroppo hanno una conoscenza dei fatti storici che li riguardano incompleta, di parte, o viziata dall'interpretazione che il proprio vissuto li induce ad avere.

Quindi consulto Wikipedia e, alla voce adolescenza, scopro che "le società occidentalizzate stanno provocando un ritardo sempre maggiore dello sviluppo psicologico degli individui, mentre in altre zone del mondo pare verificarsi the opposite. " What I note that I have in person, talking to friends, brothers and cousins: the threshold of the so-called second adolescence has been postponed until 30.

I made this leap from civil society to adolescence because a friend of mine recently voiced his despair and his total lack of confidence in future of this country, caused by the lack of esteem for the youth of today.

Questo post è per fargli capire che non è una questione di colpa. Non si può risalire più all'autore del peccato originale e sperare che bruciandolo vivo si depuri la specie da quella macchia.  Bisogna dare l'esempio. Mostrare orizzonti diversi. Insegnare ai ragazzi a guardare aldilà delle cose.

Questo è quello che ho visto ogni giorno per 17 anni dalla mia finestra.

a reclining woman crying and screaming at the sky, under the indifferent eyes of thousands of people. The architect who designed my building has meant that the courtyard where they play every day as a child and the balcony from which my parents looked out to watch me, looks like a macabre theater and unforgiving. To my family, as you can see, got the luck of the loggia real .

This, however, is what I see now from my window.

This what they see horizon adolescents Santa Maria CV (CE) .

is what is meant to "common good" in this city, home to numerous universities, including - of course - Preservation of Cultural Heritage .

There are people who come from afar to study at these universities, people who leave their families. All those who come here, get off the bus, they set foot on quella che un tempo fu la principale arteria di comunicazione per l'impero romano, la via Appia . Coperta di rifiuti e addobbata a festa con ogni sorta di cartellonistica sta ancora là. Perché un tempo le cose le sapevamo fare!

Ma torniamo ai giovani. Questi poveri ignari si trovano dinanzi a questo scempio, ma non dubitano  neanche un secondo della validità del titolo che si accingono ad acquistare. Perché lo comprano, pagandolo caro e amaro, spendendo i risparmi di tutta una vita. Non la loro ovviamente. Lo vogliono quel titolo, perché qualcuno ha messo in giro la voce without that you do not count for anything. And they believe, because they can not think of anything else. They do not know a different model of development, nor dare to imagine.
And so no one ever thinks of shared bus and back to where it came from.

I could go on hours, but today is December 31, so I will not dwell on what, for example, mean in these parts for promotion of cultural heritage, or should I show you a picture of squalid parking lot that Mc Donald alongside the old Prisons.

I leave you with a prayer and with two famous quotes that best than I can persuade you to take the lead.

Experience this New Year

like it's the last day
granted to all humanity.

I was warmly welcomed
your homes and

have given me your food,

I have covered with presents.

For this I am grateful.
Infinitely.

But everything was packed in polystyrene,

food and water served with plastic dishes,

washed with warm water current that paid dearly.

But we are paying what is already in our law,
selling what is not our personal property,
but good.

Think of a way to interrupt this mechanism.
Surely you know one already,
but are not aware of.
You'll know
and skidding enthusiastically
but with sobriety.

outputs from this system,

if you do not feel adequately represented.

Find your way and make it an example.

Someone with less less courage or imagination to you,
soon you will imitate.

Man learns by watching others.

"Just to young protesters off from the culture and there they opt for the action and utilitarianism, resigned to the situation in which the system strives to integrate them. This is the root of the problem: they use weapons against the neo-capitalism that actually bear his trademark, and are intended only to strengthen his rule. They think that they break the circle, and instead do nothing but reinforce. "

PierPaolo Pasolini essays on politics and society. 1975

" Education should aim at the freedom of the mind of young people, and not to its imprisonment in a rigid armor of dogma designed to protect it in life against the dangers of the evidence impartially. The world needs open hearts and minds, not rigid systems, old or new they are. "

Bertrand Russell, Why are not Christian, 1927