
At this time the culture is subjected to an unprecedented stress. This is because we are witnessing, on the one hand, the aggression of fundamentalism towards freer cultural expressions and, secondly, to asphyxia in the democratic countries of cutting off funds, in more or less veiled form of censorship and, above all , removal of culture on expectations of a society.
In Italy, the fact that in recent years there has been an unexpected Advanced illiteracy says a lot. Literacy in society the first step to access the western culture. With a mass of illiterate as there is today, culture is completely isolated.
It 's true that there are forms of culture are not written, but these are beyond the structural capacity of organizing and clarifying text.
If we go back in history or whether we look at the keen interest in writing in the third world, we can easily realize how driven learning has always been motivated by a desire for social improvement and individual .
In Italy, we can not forget that the struggle against illiteracy was led by John Cena and Sibilla in a socialist perspective. The apathy towards writing is due to the loss of hope, both individual and social.
Illiteracy is the charge of the post-modern in the sense given by Lyotard to this expression, the end of the great stories. If there are more great stories, what remains for us to read?
The Reagan and its imitation Berlusconi have encouraged this apathy by offering other forms of compensation immediately. In Italy especially television trivial. The death of irony, normalization.
culture So, again, the issues of always being on the side of intellectual provocation and dissent. A government of culture should be able to accept this dialectic.
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