A new kind of reality is approaching. The era of selfish consumerism and solipsism is going to come to an end. It was unavoidable since a long time, but human being goes on and on by inertia, following the same old patterns. As long as some event disruptively brakes everything. It's what happened last April 6th at L'Aquila. People just came together again, forced by the events, and liked it. Crammed in the tents, they suddently discovered another way of living, simpler and more natural. All actions were performed in a shared environment and with shared resources. The very idea of living alone with the exclusive property of all the used things and services became weird. But be careful, this didn't mean that a culture, a life-long education and experience had been swept away by the earthquake. People merely had a glimpse of what could be a different approach to social life, that basically a different world is possible. Then they naturally tended to walk the same walked paths and come back to old habits. Just a week after the earthquake many of the steps taken towards this new exalted way of living faded away, as for instance the apparently fallen down barrier between Italians and Romanians. During the first days, people felt the universality of the Human Being as the main value, with the terrible experience of taking other human beings out of the ruins vivid in their eyes and hands. So at the beginning of the life under the tents anyone considered Romanians as nothing but 'human beings', in a perfect equality atmosphere. This lasted exactly a week, after that people started again to think accordingly to the old patterns. Pushed also by the authority, that circulating malicious news and preventing persons from meeting managed to divide people rather than make them join.
But this didn't work for everyone. Someone tried to keep this first good atmosphere living on. And on. Recreating out of the tents the same conditions that helped this true human social nature to come out of the previous day-by-day ordinary lonely living. Deciding to stay all together under a same roof, in a wooden house they built as a big tent. All their activities are focused on handling the earthquake consequences, under all points of view, from human to logistic and political. All this looks highly virtuos and beautiful, and actually is. The only risk for these people could be to live FOR the earthquake, and not DESPITE it. They must realize that what they are doing now can become normal in this new envisioned kind of society, and not an extraordinary and temporary post-disaster effort. It's a step forward that would require a big consciousness and responsability, but necessary, if every good concert, assembly and tai chi course organized by these guys wants to carry the new ideals and be more that a pure palliative to the desert generated by the earthquake.
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