Sunday, October 25, 2009

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Political commitment: loss of time or Sincere battle of ideas?

Alessio Mazzucco

discussing with a friend on the matter "be actively engaged in politics." He pointed out the futility and dispendiosità time that the task requires not give certainty to reach some goal and implement the ideas of departure, all this despite the disgust in the face of obvious decay of ideals and institutions of our country.

Personally I feel committed. And not just with the newspaper (which lies in the commitment to establish the capability to communicate and discuss their opinions), but in what I call an active policy in a non-partisan group in Milan. This activity will not affect the certain The Coffee , but still a very important weight in my life.

What does engage in politics? Wanting to bring new problems and find solutions where more than they require. Nothing else. The rest is appearance, party, symbol, slogan ol'ala politics of belonging no more which is an artificial construct to simplify the work, to provide a support base or, more often, to give to the poor of ideas can mimic the political world "highly placed".

Politics is beautiful. And I did not need to say for sure Tornatore. And 'nice because it allows the realization of ideas, causes and ideals in the world in which we are immersed. It is not an exercise in style, or rhetoric, it is not ambition or self-satisfaction of a job notorious in Italy for the excesses and vices of gold. E 'irrational push to make a mark, a footprint in the world who entrust to us will happen.

The challenges of our time are many. The choices that we must take will lead us on different roads that once take, can not be changed. One of these choices is to stay active or passive before the passage of time and events, is to criticize sitting inert in a lounge or bold in the midst of the people, and making melody in silence to his belief or be exposed to the ideas and stones those who are good to get them without thinking about the reasons for doing so. Sometimes you just think, develop, reflect and communicate with others because the walls of our society remains a signature, albeit small, of course indelibly in our ideas. I have friends who are around every day to give flyers to publicize their efforts, others who write on their blog, others who, in the evenings most unlikely to give up fun and relaxing to be exits to imagine and develop a better future.

It 's a waste of time? I do not know. Of course, when our time will be spent and our names will be wilted in the collective memory, it will probably often wonder what would have been the youth in our lives if we had made a contribution, however minimal, the gears of history. There are many difficulties, the dangers of too much pain and frustration, but before the unknown and the risk of engaging me to mind the verses of The Song of Roland which state: "Damn the heart that Fell! / At our place we will remain in the field / we are the shock and the battle. "

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