The words of Paolo Borsellino, published after his death in October 1992, speak of optimism and trust in young people: an optimism of the will that came to a difficult moment for the country, with the Corleonesi to violently raise the mail in the challenge to the statean optimism placed in young people opposed to the pessimism addressed by the magistrate, killed in the massacre of via D’Amelio on July 19, 1992, to his generation and the previous ones.
There are ideas that lend themselves to reasoning, not least the theme of social consent that has always been the humus in which organized crime puts its strength. The trace, however, has the defect of decontextualization: not knowing at what point of the path have been said these words does not help to place them, in a context, which for children who today have the age of the children of Borsellino thencan only be historic: At that moment Paolo Borsellino spoke to the generation of the parents of today’s graduates, in them he put confidence in them.
He had seen dozens and dozens of processes against the mafia shipwreck against the insufficiency of evidence, had seen the so -called Palermo anti -mafia pool of Nino Caponnetto dismantle, it is not said to the boys whether these words came before or after the sentence of the Cassation that made definitive the convictions of the maxiprocess. by Salvo Lima and arrived at the maximum of his violence between 23 May 1992 and 1993 with the bombs to hit the art of Rome, Milan, Florence.
For those who are now 19 years old that time is placed in a somewhat blind window, the one that precedes them slightly along the line of time, not yet history and no longer chronicle, the most difficult in which it is registry to orientate.
Certainly it helps the fact that the generation that was violently woken up by those bombs is now in the chair in schools, if it has taken on the connection between history and news, has helped today’s maturanises for life not only for the test. The mafia kills only in summer by Pif and the theatrical show Self -portrait Davide Enia tell very well the jolt that the generation of those who were twenty years old in 1992 from those bombs received.
The possibility that this theme of maturity cannot be foreign to those who are young today, the possible possible that those who today try this test still feel in question in the words of Borsellino, certainly depends a lot on how much the previous generation has done concretely, depends on the gesture of Pif, father, with the small son of the last scenes of the film: how much who was there was charged to transmit not only to commemorate (the more the time passes, the more the commemoration passes. uniform), but to learn, especially to inquire: the first thing. Knowing is the first step to defend yourself.
From 1992 to today a lot has been learned in terms of mafias. The liberation of Brusca reported that topical time in recent days, having read newspapers, listened to Podcast, could be useful in today’s track. But to get good to the development it would be necessary to have taken a step further, not to have stopped in the history of that time, but having tried to understand how and why today the mafias behave in any other way, return to sinking and acting silent. There are but they see less, they choose less striking paths: they do dirty business, they present themselves with a clean face. Not by chance in the public debate, much less than then is talked about.
It happens that these are also the topics of the school, every time the school has, in many teachers of good will, the ability to appear on the world outside. Perhaps this theme, if it will not be just a reflection on the role of disanacked and good young people for all seasons, if it is not translated into an empty content rhetoric, it will be a starting point to learn what has come to today’s boys from those who preceded them and who have no alibis because they were there.
To understand whether or not it was taught to today’s graduates, beyond the commemorations that serve to move, the critical sense necessary to recognize, to unmask the contradictions, also of power: because from there the change in which Paolo Borsellino said he wanted to believe. He knew he wouldn’t be shortly. Today, over thirty years later, a budget can be done: Borsellino and Falcone together had started the steps forward, did it continue to walk in these thirty years? Civil society and its representatives – today the generation that could not fail to see has come to power – have made (concretely) steps forward or did they give in to the shrimp pass?
Trying to answer this question would be a good test of maturity, having the arguments to do so would mean demonstrating that it is critical, present, aware adults.
