Polaroid 600 Fuji 100c Film

"My son, leave this country"

My son, you're going to finish your university, you have been good. I have no reproaches from you. Finish on time and well, much more than your mother and I had expected. That's why I speak bitterly, thinking of what is now waiting for you. This country, your country is no longer a place where we can stand with pride.

You can only imagine the pain with which I say these things, and concern about a future that will end up breaking the gentle habits of our life together, as was the case for all these long years. But I can not honestly hide what I have long meditated. Do you know enough to know how strong your sense of justice, the desire to get the results, the feeling of friends to hold together, good and bad alike. And, again, the idea that studying hard is the only way to make credible and reliable in the work that you meet. Here, look around. What you see is that all this has less value in a society divided, quarrelsome, highly individualistic, ready to sell off the minimum values \u200b\u200bof solidarity and fairness, in exchange for a recognition of the personal interests of prebends questionable; fierce Careers made on merit exist. Unless it is a merit affiliation, political, clan, familistic: just make the difference.

This is a country where, if you're lucky, you'll start earning a tenth of all racks, a hundredth of a tissue or a tronista, maybe a little more than a thousandth of a great manager who has the assets and misadventures failures that will ever pay. It 's also a country in which to travel, you have to pray that Alitalia does not try to tell us to take seriously the company asking its employees respect the organization, because then you may come to see you cancel any flight for days whole, spend your time waiting for an information (or excuse) that will not come. On the other hand, how could it be otherwise, if this is the only country where an airline Been technically bankrupt for failing to stay on the market, giving it the monopoly was privatized, and so forcing its leaders to paralysis in the face of employees who do not believe more than ever be at risk.

Believe me, if you look around and if you turn a bit ', you will not find many reasons to cheer him up. Run into the glorious destiny of those who, having made even the taxi driver, you see rewarded - for reasons guessed - with a Board of Directors, or not knowing anything about electricity, gas and various energies, undeterred access to the top of a multi-utility. Not worth anything have spotless record, if there are sufficient grounds to work on other land, able to push a delicate task, perhaps critical for the fate of industrial country. This is a country where no one seems destined to pay for the mistakes made, imagine if you will pull back and thought he did not touch a place more than once officiated by registered post to any office. I could go on and on, bored and depressing.

For this, his heart is suffering more than ever, my advice is that you, your studies are finished, take the road from abroad. Choose where to go have a value loyalty, respect, recognition of merit and performance. You probably will not all gold, not that. Also happen that often, you take the nostalgia of your country and, I hope, of your old. And you will try to come to terms, to do that for which you have prepared for years.

Listen to me, this is a country you do not deserve. We wanted it to be different and we have failed. Us too. You have the right to live differently, without asking, for example, if what you say or write can disrupt some of these mediocre that count, the risk of being placed in the viewfinder, even subtly, and find yourself marginalized without understanding why. Now that I have said what I wanted to avoid with all my strength, I know, I expect, what would you answer me. I know you and love you for that too. I say it's all true, that things are just like that, that you suck, but you, for this, do not give it to him won. That's it. And I do not know, believe me, if you worry more for this obstinacy, or rejoice at having found a way to not let me down, favoring my bitterness. However prepared to suffer.

Love, your father


The author was Director General of RAI. He is currently director general of the Free International University of Social Studies, Luiss Guido Carli.

Franchise Depreciation

The crucifix and the pumpkin

Don Raffaele Garofalo

Diary of the pioneer missionary in Africa tell us that whenever the men showed the crucifix to the natives, they fled in terror. In all probability the "primitive" by Claude Levi-Strauss ever wondered who were those "savages" delighted in showing them a man subjected to such torture! E 'likely in front of a "Halloween pumpkin" would have laughed good-naturedly. The eye and the mind accustomed to prevent us to understand the scandal highlighted by strangers, what would happen if we showed in our churches a man hanging from a rope or beheaded or charred on an electric chair. A secular state should not impose the presence of crucifixes in classrooms, or promote the teaching of one religion in public schools. A discipline that respects of secularism and pluralism would only be possible with the study of history of religions or of religion itself. The teachers, of whatever faith or none, gain access to specific securities bearing obtained from the University of the State and appointed by the Minister for competitions and rankings. Father Ernesto Balducci, soul, masterfully Christian and secular, said that the educational activity must be non-denominational, "of course becomes the Gospel" when it is capable of empowering people before subordinate. Don Milani, teacher and educator, a man of faith, do not expose the crucifix on the walls of the school Barbiana.La Strasbourg ruling provides an opportunity for reflection that goes beyond the event and put the same attention to the value of the identifying symbol of Christians. Paul of Tarsus, for one, emphasizes the significance of the cross, giving rise to the "sacrificial theology" that an offended God would have demanded an "adequate remedy" by sacrifice his own son. It is a concept of divinity, not far from the pagan gods that subside with sacrifices, even to the shedding of human blood. Paul himself, however, states that the strength of Christianity, what distinguishes a religion making "real" than the other "false", is the Resurrection of Christ, the victory over death, conclusive evidence of his divinity. "If Christ has not been raised our preaching is vain, vain and your faith" (I Cor. 15, 14). The crucifixion and death of the Messiah characterize a situation of transition in the economy of Christian salvation. A theology "masochistic" favored, however, the sacrificial transitional moment of the cross rather than the final message of the Resurrection. For believers, the excitement should be paid not to the Christ crucified but risen Christ: instead of that symbol of death, should be in the camp said the figure of the Master alive and welcoming, a theology of life, not the non morte.Per the crucifix symbolizes believers, the laity, the suffering, the heroism of which he knows could become the 'man "to rescue his fellow man. Think of the crosses scattered along the Appian Way, after the Spartacus revolt that led to restore dignity to his men, consider the martyrs of the liberation struggle that history lists. The cross is an emblem of man's redemption of the oppressed. Knowing that a man-god was executed on charges of "stirring up" against the power makes it more acceptable, even non-belief, "made man" of Christ, the generous gesture of love. Striking features, however, a crucifix that will express the "repair" does not claim to be a God willing to forgive free (within its limits, the man they ... is capable of!), a jealous God willed that the creature in His image and likeness Lui.Il aspire to become like God's face to be found within man, why Judaism prohibits all human vision and representation. A crucifix covered with dust layered, hung mo 'of furnishings into disuse, it makes no Christian, but can make us dangerously Pharisees: the cross of Christ is also on display in the secret of the mafia! The Catholic proselytism makes extensive use of images and gestures bordering on superstition while neglecting the Christian message that passes when the Word becomes life vissuta.I our devoted leaders may profess their faith by solving the problems of who is nailed to the lack of jobs, insecurity. The Church, for its part, to preserve the freedom of a credible proclamation of the Gospel, is called to the witness. If Christians are truly "baking", mentioned in the Gospel, will be effective only "in the middle of the crowd," the school of the State, giving up the continual demands of public money for their elite institutions. The government will respect the Christian roots of our country when the racial laws will abolish the "rejection" of the crime of illegal immigration, a civil and dignified reception of immigrants, the current crucified on tramp despair, a world enslaved by pagan symbols firmly tied to his soul. Under the gaze of a crucified and sacred images, we are able to perform the most horrific actions: from violence in the home, the injustices committed in the courtrooms, offices, schools, even in churches. In the name of a sacred symbol has become "furniture" is being launched racist laws, are blessed weapons, perpetrate massacres, you agree guerre.In France, Germany, England and many other nations, respectful of the Vatican but free from "servitude" you have the consciousness that in administrative offices, educational establishments, it is a public non-sectarian, is a culture not a profession of faith. Christians should be the first to recognize the importance of a thorough study of religion that would support more informed choices, thwarting any fundamentalist threat. Gradually introduce the teaching in schools of other religions, as is being proposed, is now worn cobble together a fabric, a desire to provide funds to pool knowledge that enhances the negative aspect of the differences instead of highlighting the wealth. The "Catechism" administered in schools difficult to create deep-rooted beliefs, is to support often, if not rejection, indifference to religion for a lifetime. The comparison with different cultures, with other ways of conceiving a good faith would support the formation of a future society based on peaceful coexistence, will make it easier to search, compare and share common values, scongiurerà the risk of new wars of religion, "clashes of civilizations." A state that is short-sighted, and feels responsible for a harmonious growth of future generations, should engage in that direction. The Church should not feel threatened by a plurality of voices united by shared values, rather than a religious diffiderà flaunted, destined to be systematically denied by public and private behavior. In Italy the crucifix "should be" hung on the walls, desire for unanimous intrometterà not in the affairs of private and public citizens and leaders! Remains in place, nailed, that's where you want it! Non-invasive, harmless. For these reasons, it was hushed up by the Sanhedrin and a Roman tribunal.