I am posting these writings on the Mafia and the Italian mind also because I believe that any fight against organized crime, wherever it exists around the world, must first of all be engaged at a cultural level.
The Sicilian judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, killed by the Mafia in 1992
As regards Italy I am convinced that the Mafia, the Camorra and the Ndrangheta come from our most ancient roots, as I will try to demonstrate in my next writing.
This being a blog on our heritage we must nonetheless reject those elements of it that are against improvement in our lives in the present situation.
I had recently shown a picture of a mural painted by Sicilian students. It bore the words:
“La lotta alla mafia deve essere innanzitutto un movimento culturale.”
["The fight against the Mafia must first of all be a cultural movement."]
Art School of Giarre, Catania (Sicily). May 1908
These Sicilian students have well understood that the fight is not only a question of law and order but also one of changing the mentality of the people.
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