Man does not live on megalopolis

Publish date 26-02-2022

by Giorgio Ceragioli

Small towns are a hope. It is in them that humanity pulsates; it is in them that we find the use of the most modern means united with the ability of an authentic, continuous, valid personal relationship.

We must not take away from these centers of hope - where crime is 5 to 10 times lower, in relation to the number of crimes per inhabitant, compared to that of large cities - young people who want to continue studying, in an effort to integrate rightly their culture with other experiences, with the progress of thought or research.

Think how nice it would be if two or three days a week they could stay in their city and at the same time get in touch with their university faculty, consult the library, talk and see each other remotely with the assistant or professor, send the last work done so that it is correct, while they can follow any correction while sitting 100 km away, ready to immerse themselves in their society: in the society in which they were born and lived for so many years, in that society in which they can be animators, do catechism classes, participate in sports competitions, cultural philosophical debates or discussions on whether or not to preserve an old deconsecrated chapel.

It is necessary to give people of good will - and in small cities there is still a lot of it - the opportunity to root their activities more deeply, preventing the useless and harmful growth of metropolises. Not that the big city, or rather what it represents, doesn't make sense, is useless.
I do not propose to return to a closed and stagnant peasant society, without prospects.

For some it may even go well, and it is right that they have the opportunity to live it; but for many it is necessary to combine peasant civilization and advanced technology, spiritual values ​​and scientific research. And today the possibilities are there; you just need to have the inventiveness to use them and the courage to try.

from “Progetto” (now “NP”), 1989, n. 6


Giorgio Ceragioli
NP November 2022

 

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