“Thank you, please, thank you, please, sorry…”. This is what Celentano sang, many years ago. The Pope he said it many times. If we learned to say thank you, please, sorry, it’s allowedfamily days would change. Not only that: at work, in politics, in communication.
For this reason they sound exceptional and very different, two examples of the deserted option “apologize”. Our own: a great singer-songwriter like Antonello Venditti he brazenly yells at a girl who shouts verses at his concert. It’s understandable, the stage is tiring and at a certain age you can’t handle it, then the rudeness of too many millennials provokes it, the outburst. Except that it was a particular girl, with a mental disability that could not and should not be contained. Well, without a sudden U-turn he would have been impaled on the altar of political correctness, but what is surprising is that Sold he was sincere. His words of apology were not a pro forma, a series of justifications, but a touching, very true “I was wrong”. So easy and liberating, so rare. And it immediately convinced the girl’s family, who continue to be her fans.
Another world, another fault and other consequences. But not enough attention has been paid to the importance of the declarations of Mark ZuckerbergCEO of Facebook. One of the most powerful men in the world. Disruptive, even politically relevant, in the midst of the American election campaign. Gentlemen, we bowed our headshe admitted, we have chosen to submit to requests, pressure from the US government on Covid content and censoring the truth regarding the investigation into the son of Joe Biden, Hunter. Sorry if it’s not enough. To affirm coram populo: “we made a mistake” and undermine the credibility of the most powerful social network, is not only courageous and right, it is beneficial, because it reminds us that social networks are not completely free platforms, they do not spread the truth by mission. We won’t do it again, we were wrongit is in any case an awareness, a tension to change.
Keyboard haters immediately thought of a political shift, a wink to the race Trump. But it is not credible, just when Trump falls in the polls and another Democrat, Biden’s vice president, rises to the stars, Harris. Maybe simply Zuckerberg he was ashamed to boast of crystalline transparency and independence from unreal strong powers, even though he has always been democratic. “I was wrong”.
If you think about it, this is what Catholic education proposes as a method to everyone, when we participate in the Holy Mass, when we repeat to God and to our brothers “I confess that I have sinned greatly”that is, wrong. Or when we enter a confessional and are asked to recite «I propose not to offend, to flee the proximate occasions of sin». No guarantee, we will continue to make mistakes, indeed, to sin. Which first of all is “what a pity!”what a waste of my intelligence and my time. But we can continue to ask for forgiveness. And knowing that God It is merciful to learn to apologize while forgiven.
