Among the Seven tracks proposed this year at the State Examsthe one on “respect”word that last year theEncyclopedia Treccani has drawn our attentionseems particularly spot on. Candidates will be able to indulge themselves by observing what is happening under our eyes.
In the new digital scenario there is in fact too often the impression of being able to write what you wantas if we could pass unscathed through the fire we have turned on. Free insult, hasty judgments, extemporaneous descriptions, gossip, rumors: in the era of social media every assertion seems to have become lawful. It’s all very fast, there is no time to learn more. The statement without a response triumphs, the joke collection without verification of the sources, the superficiality, the ignorance, the misunderstanding, the misunderstanding. Everyone says everything and if someone is wrong causing damage to others, he believes they don’t have to pay the price of compensation.
This mental scheme risks passing continuously from screens to reality.
The lack of respect, now rampant for example in the politician of politics, but not only, also derives from disappear of accredited critical consciences: in information crushing We have all become potentially philosophers, artists, professors, tribunes, psychologists and essays. We do not realize that it is an optical illusion.
Unfortunately, many young people fall into this network (in the double sense, ancient and cybernetic). There is nothing more non -educational than disregarding the responsible of the word. To recover lost respect, we should teach our kids that the words we are written and pronounced they are like a boomerang: They always come back and they can hit you in the face. We must be ready to face what we have said and done: for better or for worse. Only in this way can we become adults, not in a registry sense, but spiritual.
