When I was a teenager in Italy
the USA
used to be the dream country to be in, all looked beautiful and the strong
consumerism made it the financial super-power of the entire world.
I even remember that as I was studying to earn my Ph.D. in
economics, several of my professors at the University in Bologna (the oldest in
the world for having been founded around the year 1.000 with medicine and
chemistry as main matters to graduate on) used to make examples in their
lessons with cases taken straight from the way how companies were running their
businesses worldwide in those times, practically the managements of American
companies was used to make teaching examples to explain what’s right to do.
However, I see now that the deep love for our consumerism
and its way to act on issues or problems of all kinds has seemingly crashed
against the wall of our current financial crisis that will be studied for
decades going forward in the (futile) attempt to find “the guilty one”.
It’s my deep and firm belief that the “guilty one” is our
love for consumerism and the forgetfulness for “higher concepts”, what I’m in
fact seeing is that Hollywood and the movie industry in general have embraced
this change of paradigm that can truly save our country with its economical
superiority and strength.
It’s truly not a case that right in this time movies like
God’s not dead and Noah, together with the “religious effort” of our president
Obama to bring religion and faith in God back on the front pages of our
newspapers that we cannot simply dismiss these contemporary events as meaningless
random episodes in our history.
As the man of faith I’ve always been I’m very confident in
the sure financial recovery of our country as well as I have very gloomy
feelings for half of South Europe, but I best stop now with my forecasting attitude
before I may regret what I write.
- http://www.newdream.org/programs/beyond-consumerism
- http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/06/obama-religious-freedom-under-threat/
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