Demographics: the number is Impotence
Of Roberto Pecchioli

Source: Heretically
In the middle years 70 of the past century, a boy fresh from his high school exams was spending a couple of weeks' holiday in the remote Valbrevenna, Genoese hinterland. The many villages in the valley, beautiful in their stone constructions, the remains of the common oven, the now boarded up church, each with the monument to the fallen of the two wars – so many, long excruciating lists of recurring surnames – they were already semi-abandoned. Some hamlets no longer had any inhabitants. Bled by the war, from the industrialization of the nearby city, to our teenage eyes they resembled the spooky images of Old West ghost towns seen in American films. Some local Alpine troops, war veteran, he cited by analogy Nuto Revelli's books on the vanquished, the valley dwellers of the Cuneo Alps decimated in Russia, whose towns had never recovered from the death of young people and the exodus to Turin of women of working and marriageable age.
Electoral friend, beyond 40 years later, it has only partially stopped the demographic collapse, but the entire municipality has fewer than eight hundred residents, quite a few of which are virtual, since in reality they are domiciled in the city. Thousands and thousands of other countries can tell the same story, which reminded the boy at the time of a Sanremo song from 1971, What will it be, with the unmistakable voice of José Feliciano and the Ricchi e Poveri version:
'my country that is on the hill, lying like a sleeping old man, boredom, abandonment, nothingness is your illness'. Read More

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