Wednesday, July 20, 2016

We should be concerned

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and this post, we should be concerned
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We should be concerned
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Today, even in a place where people go to have good time, it is not safe to go. See what has happened in Nice France, another terrorist attack has killed 84 people plus. Today in this world we should really be concerned.
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We should be concerned
Dear readers, I would have liked to have started by continuing to write about my concerns, as I said in the last post an old man view of the world. But, because violent events have happened in the world that are in line with my concerns, I would like to mention them first and then we will continue to write about our concerns, just the way I wanted to write them. You see, what has happened in France then in Belgium and now in Nice and now is happening in Turkey, it all has something to do with movement of people that emigrate from one place to another, because they are not happy, and also the native people of that region that are not happy. These violent happenings today make me concerned, and everybody should be concerned about them. Now let us go back to what I was going to say.
 Today we should be concerned, because there is this movement of people that could be considered like a Biblical Exodus. You know what I mean, the Jews left Egypt to go to their Promised Land, in their way they had many problems, one of their biggest problems was that they had to fight the people that were occupying their Promised Land, so, in the process many people were killed. Now that is just one example of what happens when a large number of people move from one place to another; of course there are many more examples if we read our human history, but, I believe that I have explained my point of view.
We believe that there is a link here for us to be concerned. Not only in some regions of Southern Italy, but perhaps the entire continent of Europe, as there are too many called refugees that arrive from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, so, as an old man I am concerned. Now, even though this looks like a worldwide problem, I would like to tell my own country people what I see coming. You see, today I am viewing all these happenings from the land down under here in Australia. Now, because I am so far away, my point of view might be different from what the people of Southern Italy are seeing, but at the same time it is always good to have a different opinion.     
What has given me the idea of writing this article the first time, it was that I have been writing about the history of Monteserico castle, which is the past history of this regions of southern Italy, because I come from this region, and therefore there are lots of times that I go back to talk about it, for one reason or another, since I am a native of this region. 
Since we have written about the history of the castle of Monteserico, and whatever has happened around this castle of Monteserico and also about Genzano town, since Monteserico is in Genzano territory. Now having seen what has happened in the past, our minds looks at the present times and tries to forecast the future, we know that our human history keeps going on and at times seems to repeat itself, we wonder now what the future holds for us; here I have to say that there are a few negative signs for the future of this region, which already seem to be happening, as we have said at the beginning of this post, where the entire world seems to have problems already.
But let us go back to talk about Southern Italy, in order to understand what I am worried about, it is necessary to know a bit more about this region of Southern Italy and the inhabitant that have lived and are living there. You see this region is not rich, the only thing that it is going on there is wheat farming, and also some mixed farming for their own use; there are a lot of small farms that would be able to sustain the native inhabitant only. We have also to say that there are times when these small farms do not produce enough and people have to leave the farms and go to work somewhere else, if and when they are able to find another job, even if they have to go to another country. You see this is the main reason why I left our small family farm and migrated to Australia. But today the opposite is happening, people go to Italy instead of leaving it.  
Anyhow, we know that a few things might have changed since I left Italy, but if they have changed it is not a great deal, as there are no industries of any sort beside farming, so the way of life over there is very much the same as it was in the fifties when I was there. As you can see from what I have said, this region of southern Italy could not support any outside people that would like to come there and stay there, and that is one of my concerns.
But as we have said already this would also apply to several other regions of Italy and indeed the entire world. We really have to think about what we need to do next, so whatever concerns I have for my native town and Italy, they are also concerns for the rest of the word and above all the western world, since that is the place where people are moving to.
We are going to continue to say a few more thing next time we write next post, that we are going to call, the Italian problem of today, but I can tell you now that this is not only an Italian problem, because it involves most of the western world, plus other countries here and there.  So, see you soon, when we write our next post.