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Of Marcello Veneziani

Source: Marcello Veneziani
Our Millennium has come of age. He accomplished it 18 years and can therefore vote, patent yourself, it is the zero year of adult life. He inherits the discomfort of previous years.
If we wanted to say at the halfway point of the year in short what is the key to the malaise of our present, how could we outline it? It is the squaring of a vicious circle composed of fiscal oppression, tyranny of the market, loss of the border, permissive intolerance.
Let's try to explain ourselves starting from the simplest.
The State as a principle of unity above the parties and as a public spirit has no longer existed for a while. And the welfare state, as support and guarantee for peoples and citizens, was attacked, dried up and debased over the years, first through his obese welfare-type caricatures – which gave rise to statism and public parasitism – then through the dismantling, the shift of the axis from public to private, the liberal wave, universal precariousness and marketism. Read More

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A question and answer between Of Matteo Fais e Davide Brullo
Six out of ten Italians don't read. Better. Reading is useless
Always there same old story. The newspapers, during the holidays, not knowing how to fill the pages, instead of taking the opportunity to talk about serious things, year after year they re-propose questions already heard and articles already written, changing just a few commas. In recent days, funeral singing is in vogue, on score provided by Istat, to complain about missed readings of the Italians. Data in hand – obviously, no one talks about how the survey was conducted –, it seems that six out of ten Italians don't read. The other theme that returns, more or less every quarter, along with this, that's what most of us think would not be able to understand a text of medium complexity. Il Courier also recently provided an example, to clarify what is meant by this abstruse formula of "a text of medium complexity". He brought back a passage from The Catholic school of Albinati. I tried reading it too, to see if I understood it but, sincerely, Maybe I didn't get to the end because I fell asleep first.
In short, Italians don't read and the reprimand begins. Instinctively I smile. And so? What unhealthy idea animates our intelligentsia to lead them to think that whoever reads is a better man, or smarter? Ma, Then, read what? Reading Balzac makes you better? Or read a construction engineering text?
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