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"the newspaper" in Brindisi, 21 March 2006

Examples morally harmful, and the absence of parents and school

The last disturbing incident, which involved, victim and aggressor, two minors in Fasano, requires more than a reflection on the destinies of the younger generations in this city, but not all.

goes without saying that what happened was due to a number of sociological factors, ranging from general to more specific, which obviously affect the growth of adolescents in ways not always less predictable. Among these factors, the risk of appearing tautological rhetoric and I'm not afraid to give priority to the nefarious power of commercial television, "TV bad teacher", in the felicitous expression of Popper, for many hours every day and is preparing for and administering shows questionable taste, from "Friends" to "Men and Women" and so on, through this kind of horror tunnel cathode, to arrive at reality or fiction . Messages that convey these transmissions, as they say, are morally harmful (but then, what is education if not the proposal of a cultural and social model sufficiently sound and adequate?) and refer, amplified by tam tam the SMS on mobile phones, a disconcerting distortion of reality because they are fake. E 'data, therefore, watch the performances of coarse and vulgar girls fighting over the handsome round of hugs delivered by post or rending of the heart or Carràmba of various kinds. Where is the culture will be relegated? The television public service has abdicated the logic of the market, according to which all can and should be commercialized, the feelings and emotions. From here, the transition from fiction (where even the reality, of course, are a blatant fiction) to the realities of daily life is short: what happens on television seems possible and plausible, the struggles to "stay in the house" or "win" the privilege of the attentions of a modern cicisbeo seem so real that it should be emulated.

But the weak link in all this is, in my opinion, lowering the guard against these guys, yesterday and today, just on account of their age and how living inside, crying out, reference to adults, to be included and heard. On the contrary, very often the case that adolescents are left to their own, just watching television or a video game, or to attend friends who often do not know enough and that parents have no time, and perhaps even desire, to know. While it is true the thrust and physiological independence from adults of any teenager, it is equally true that the need for each of them has to be guided and driven along the roads that form to life. On this the major institution which should assist the educational role of parents, school, years steadily losing prestige and authority, as butchered by the great deal of reform and counter- which follow the rate of one every three or four years.

final consideration concerns the difficulties in which social Puglia still being debated. A territory, regional, rugged and full of highlights, in the sense of full evidence of the problems (think of the provincial capitals, above all, or some large cities), but also full of gray areas, where apparently things are better. E 'often come from there that the more unpleasant surprises. That 's where, often, minors are more at risk because that is where it is lowered guard.

What is most disturbing, because submerged and understated, is the increased use of drugs, synthetic or not, by little more than thirteen teenagers and alcohol on the premises and is given in bars without worrying about the age of those who ask. It 's a growing phenomenon that goes hand in hand with major changes in lifestyle of the boys and girls, an alleged accomplice in the sense of "business that runs the economy," it is a proliferation of nightclubs throughout the whose customers are mostly young and very young consumers.

It 'hard to make sense of all this, but I think for the moment is sufficient to reaffirm that we adults should sleep a little' quiet and less care (not just worry about) even more of our children, trying to tune in and listen to their needs which are not different from those of all the boys and girls of every generation and latitude.