Young people: Italy meritocracy, ‘the culture of violence against the culture of beauty’

“The recent news pages tell of a worrying increase in so-called occasional violence, not linked to phenomena of organized crime. There is no day in which episodes of fights and assaults are not reported, other than killing for futile reasons. It seems. that, in the end, the pandemic has not made us better people at all. It almost seems that we have reached the point of no return of a path of education in violence and aggression that began a few years ago. give in to value drift. All is not lost and the possibility of reversing the course and creating a better world still exists. The cult of violence occupies the spaces left empty by culture. The strength of the muscles tries to supplant that of reason and spread to the intermediary of dangerous cultural models, especially for young people. Speaking with adolescents, it will be very difficult for them to know about Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino, Rosario Livatino, Gandhi, M adre Teresa of Calcutta or Martin Luther King, but we can be reasonably certain that they know very well the Savastano family or Samurai or Pablo Escobar. Is this really the society we want for our children? “Meritocrazia Italia underlines it.” The pressing culture of violence – affirms the movement – cannot be fought with physical force or even with stricter laws, which are of no use to eradicate the phenomenon. The only really useful weapon is in the promotion of another kind of culture, made up of respect, education, politeness and fairness, of positive heroes who teach and embody these values ​​in practice, and who can show young people all the unstoppable strength of kindness. . It is necessary to understand that respect for others, for their ideas and needs is above all respect for oneself, for one’s traditions, for one’s environment and for one’s history. Only in this way can we hope to put aside the memory of the ‘bad guys’, of those who have caused dishonor and shame to the country, to replace it with the memory of the thousands of heroes who have done their duty every day “. therefore, according to Meritocrazia Italia “it would be useful, among other things: to promote awareness and information campaigns also aimed at parents, so that they can have full awareness of the real picture of the problem and are stimulated to a conscious vigilance, and to the recovery of the value of listening and a modality of dialogue and comparison aimed at the shared search for solutions; organize and promote awareness-raising initiatives in schools of all types and levels aimed at highlighting the value of the culture of respect, identifying and proposing models of positive heroes to young people to identify with in order to foster the demolition of the culture of violence and oppression; pay greater attention to the messages conveyed through the television schedule, especially in relation to what is transmitted in the protected band during television broadcasts and programs or during advertising breaks; leverage on the social function of sport, an instrument of integration and a moment of high education in fairness and cooperation “.