I was not yet in the new shopping center in Palermo. Something new in a city that has remained slightly behind this phenomenon, but that is about to fall into line quickly to the standard.
impression I've had is to be projected in an artificial and fake. A sort of cathedral dedicated to the new god of our times "consumerism". Yet even if I months later I made my pilgrimage to this temple. I chose carefully the time to go to avoid being stuck in traffic. I decided to have lunch at the center, a restaurant specializing in cuisine style "west". I've been around the shops, I had coffee, I made a trip to the electronics store, but after 3 hours I had a great desire to leave. E 'useless I do not like the mall. I prefer to shop from home, the kindness of one who knows you by name, of knowing your habits, for those who can advise you and understand your needs. Today, seeing all those families nervously participate in the ritual consumption has strengthened my belief now that ours is a civilization based on the irresponsible consumption. You buy cellurari, tv, computers that do not really need. You pay with money you do not have. We are living beyond our means. Employees almost all young, you probably have a contract, a job, and this is the only positive side I have found. But I also think of how many stores were closed in the city, how many corners of the city become more anonymous and that piece of land on the outskirts of Palermo, which is now a square articiale. The problem is that we are replacing the city squares to these new squares of organized consumption. The Sunday was a day of rest, is becoming the day of consumption. The families left their homes to go to the "Toyland", there are other centers of social, squares and parks are empty seats not recommended, so go entire families to participate in this ritual, which now has no age. Children and youngsters are targets of this new way of leisure.
I hope that many small traders to maintain the desire and ability to continue with their small business, to give people a more human consumption.
Our society is losing its centrality in the work and the person to give an exaggerated importance to the consumer. The Italian factories to produce goods close to go to faraway places, who then sell it in our shopping malls on offer at a price still lower than workers without jobs and loads of debts will be able to afford. It 'a dog chasing its tail, a game that is making it downward a small group of people richer and a huge mass of people poorer. We are exporting around the world, this pattern of drinking that our planet will not forgive us. Stop? maybe it's too late now. We are overwhelmed by the immense amount of waste we produce. That huge amount of packs at allowing the most part this system of consumption. The ultimate cost of which is then downloaded by the system on the community, found the streets full of waste of all kinds and there are more places to dispose of. It 's all absurd, but you're all in, we fail to realize what we do every day. Our cars pollute much and do more kilometers and less are able to do without it. We use dozens of devices powered by batteries that one day will be replaced and that will be disposed of. Our increasingly irresponsible individual behavior are fueled by a society that has lost the sense of economic responsibility and environmentally friendly. The nature on the other hand begins to rebel and landslides this winter is evidence that the territory abandoned the logic of reckless is beginning to yield. I am an individual guilty as everyone else, and with this reflection does not intend to absolve from my responsibilities. We should all pause for a moment and think the world will be.
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