ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP: THE GROWING PHENOMENON ARE HUNDRED MILLION VOLUNTEERS IN EUROPE of Ugo Locatelli, artist and educator
In the ranking for public spending education and training in the twenty-seven European countries has fallen to our nineteenth place ("Il Sole 24 Ore", 06.20.2010).
devastating haemorrhage of knowledge that gets worse if you look at the articulation and the quality of spending, and if we consider a more serious because we are the twenty-fourth place (next only to Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania) for the disbursement in culture of families.
How could this disaster happen while knowing - and right "missing" - that knowledge nourishes the mind and makes us human beings? Maybe because you know a more unqualified and uncritical thinking is crucial to exploit the power to manipulate consciences, to manage and develop the interests of power?
Unfortunately a large number of citizens do not realize that, as in the Censis recent annual report, "Our high and noble references were flattened," and continues to share narrow mindsets, arrogant, dangerous assumptions, "legitimate grounds" trivial behavior, cultural provincialism, mixing of public affairs and vaudeville, and sees reality only through the distorting prism of human nature less: a prism activated day after day, year after year, with a dark condition, invasive and sophisticated, often subliminal, whose faces are stupidity, habit, ignorance, fear, the servility.
Stupidity, understood as a "limitation on the ability to judge and thought processes" (U. Galimberti, Psychology) , and the thought of L. Longanesi "A fool is a fool. Two are two stupid stupid. Ten thousand fools are a historical force; the habit, as a passive and stereotyped to inhabit the world, and ignorance, as reassuring desire, conscious or removed, they do not know what can give rise to doubt, fear, such as refusal to leave the comforting enclosure of prejudices, dominant views of conformism, cringing as the tendency to submit to the most powerful people fear or opportunism, renouncing their beliefs and choked his personality.
We continue to take pre-judgments, massive doses of misinformation, to be content -slogan promises not kept and simplistic explanations, accept stagings daily, or try to dissolve a po'alla time to get out of traps and snares that we do not recognize our patterns, in the belief that a more free thinking can contribute not only to shake up the country, but also to be better people.
With continued attention, because the background c 'is a problem - a complex and difficult - as written by G. Livraghi ("The Power of Stupidity"): "In reality, light and shadow are mixed continuously in a tortuous, turbulent and ever-changing maze of contradictions and contamination (often ad hoc, ed), where it is not easy to distinguish the paths of clarity the labyrinths of confusion. "
Like a beacon in the night and contrast with the widespread abstention of conscience in the New Year comes to help us by reporting the opposite, the extent of individual and social consciousness: seven million Italians (one hundred million in Europe) preparanoa celebrate the European Year of Volunteering - a the fundamental dimensions of active citizenship and democracy - with hundreds of events, awareness and training, educational campaigns, meetings with politicians and citizens, creating documentaries, projects and synergies at national and Community level.
Data show an increase of the phenomenon and, recently, the propensity to volunteer than in individual formalized organizations.
Volunteer is a person who fulfilled the duties of every citizen, make available their time and talents for others, for the community or of belonging to mankind, with disinterested altruism . Search specifically to "practice kindness" (second essential human activity Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Nobel Peace Prize in 1989). Opera in
free and free, promoting constructive responses to the needs of the recipients or contributing to the achievement and improvement of common goods: health, education and lifelong learning, culture and heritage arts, environment, security and social protection, urban liveability, quality of public services. Heritage continually threatened by poor management, inadequate resources, neglect, corruption, strategic myopia.
The hope is that this extraordinary human being carries light in the "dark forest" in which we live, which seeks to rekindle a sense of ethical responsibility, that promotes the awakening of consciences distracted and indifferent.
Before the stupidity, habit, ignorance, fear, the servility become destiny.
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