instead of brewing up hatred could HIStory -or at least HERstory - have ever been the study of love of each others peoples and the extraordinary regional diversity of mother earth. there seemed to be a chance out of italy during the first half of millennium 2 if you celebrate the trading visions of marco polo and how at that time the med sea was the happiest trading bay the west would ever see, the missionary views of st francis, and their love of artistic which italy's wealthiest community builders celebrated; if ultimately sustianability is the quest for designing global in which whaever locality the next child is born she has a chance to shine - then we need education ro over-rule big organisation economics and return to the small enterprise transparency of value cains and how unlike the zero sum games of the thing consumption age, life critical knowhow netwrking multiplies valuein us
livesmatter rome starts at
vatican university premiosciacca
club of romes green and nobel peace summit attempts to learn ways foward
the newly excavared collisseum turned into the museum of borderless youth cultures
part 1 of uk and italy - changing the world
he old/known world up to just before 1500 consisted of the tri-continent land-bridged in part of Asia famous for being where pilgrims of golden religions
during the first 500 years of millennoum 2 italy still mastered over the old world- it had gone from an aggressive empire to a win-win trader across the med sea and at the western end of the only overland world trade route - the silk road; at the oriental end we know from the world's first travel tourist marco polo that if you reached theriver city of hangzouyou came across the greatest collection od market stalls f any city; inland hangzou was at the end of the longest canal ever built up to beijoing; if you sialed out of theriver you would go north by modernday shangk=hai and enjoy extraordinary win-win trades with northern china korea and japan;
strangely when rumors circulted that the world was round. italy most afressive sailors hored themselves out to portugal spain and then the united kingdom; spain and portugal thus didided up latin america as part of their empires; the brits wre the first to civilise the new england coat chased by the netherlands new york; france parts of what became canada and loiusiana; whilst the british were repelled in 1776, their big ships now backed up by glasgow's pioneering of the age of humans and machines doubled up in colonising most of europe
whilt iyaly declied as britain grew, there was little direct competition between british and italian navies; it was much much later the suez canal was built so italy was furthest away from the action
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lets leap to the role uk-italy most need to win-win if 10 yrears to sustain our species is the purpose italy and uk want to contribute by with and from the UN and what were once the lingusitic mother tingues of western old world meets asia's east and africa's south
in 1976 the economist published what this entreprenurial revolution would take and romano prodi was the first european to gospelise this in his mother tongue; he played a role before being drawn into the big bureaucratics of the eu that possibly f=jf kennedy if he had lived would have played in being not just a beliner but a tokyoite
whatever italy's world might have harmonised quickly disappeared as the big mercantile era took over; and as european empires drew narion borders ove most of the old world, it was the english that led the antithesis of goodwill across nations to 1760 when the start of the age of humans and machines added another variable
all of this seemed to have passed italy by for the odd reasons that the med sea became the dead end to world shipping unit the suez canal was built and by that time italy was out of shipbuilding and determing world trade routes; with the exception of the dreaded mafia it could be argued that italians got on with making the most of enjoying being a manly coatal nation until the awful mussolini took over politcs; which probably explains why italians have not trusted national politicians ever since; yet if the european union was to bring south north balance italy needed to play a strongly consistent role in triangularising the big 3 of the 6 that founded the european union; unfortunately it doesnt seem to have played the southern eastern role the way that was most needed as the eu took shape between 1955-1963; read romano prodi for chapter and verse- he gave extrordinary open briefings to student beijing diplomats in 2016/7 until a cultural blindness of terrifyng proprtions took over the usa in the face of donald trump just when youth had been ptomised a 15 year race to sdgs; so what has this got to do with uk-italy- well quite probably all this dreadful lack of commn sense in media- the extreme opposite of what adam smith would have meant by social/moral sentiments became the final brexit straw; whatever else sustainability needs 7.5 billion human beinggs desiging systems that are bottom up and open not nationalist separate; have we really forgotten the lessons of everything that went wrong in europe's 1930s;
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however italy's rule over religion - catholicism- was replaced by the royal church of england; while france span portugal retained cathic faiths - however these always networked 2 different idoelogies -the community sustainable ffanciscans and the bossy jesuits
net net even in world war 2 its unclear that england and italy caused a lot of mutual hatreds; my knowledge of mussolini is ot big but he seems to have blindly followedhitler while not necessaily wanting to join in the project of ruling the whole of europe
to the extent that the uk is now the oursider of the eu one could argue that 2 empires that have declined back to not much more than their opulation weights have peoples who jusrt want to get back to building their potentially beuatiful countries rather than join inthe games of whose idelogy rules the world
of ciurse peculairly italy retains a huge relationship across the world through catholicism and brits relationship is now mainly due to how muck knowledge has been published in englush- still just about the worlds main business language
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