The courageous intervention of the senator for life Elena Cattaneo regarding pole of science’s Expo, called “a great spot based on improvisation”, will probably have the effect of Manzoni’s cries. Even if all that says is self-evident, quite evident to researchers and enthusiasts dedicated to do their jobs; and not to hinder the others.
Elena Cattaneo is a true scientist, verifiable in international rankings, unlike the crowd that for almost twenty years the Italian system of controls’ high training and search . It will check it for a set of factors that can not be attributed only to the political responsibility, but also indifference and sloppiness of the same researchers enthusiasts but disaccorti, who have neglected the issue of democratic management of the research and training.
Italian politics is the research and training as an unnecessary nuisance. He has facilitated before and then absorbed the choice of the “market” which does not provide a significant Italian presence in this sector, in the framework of a geographical division of labor and economic and cultural vocations that excludes us in fact. It is no coincidence that scientific intelligence, also Italian, are addressed elsewhere for years; and ignorance by us .
It is known as the political appreciate only those who stand in line, resist assiduous humiliation and introject an academic figure servant of power, whatever it is . An academic figure not at all unpopular within the “caste” itself, if only 18 Italian professors refused the oath of allegiance to fascism. In short, the ‘ Italian Academy does not notable for independence and courage; and scientists and technologists are not distinguished themselves for nonconformity, though only three were teachers scientific area riotous (a chemist, a mathematician and a surgeon). None of the technological area. An anthropological explanation for the choir of authoritative consents to “petaloso” Human Techcnopole? The thoughtful consensus with which many academics have hailed the project, perhaps backroom bargaining some benefit, no one has asked Italians scientists using lists of Google Scholar on the web.
Dell ‘post-Expo operation senator also captures a less obvious, at least for an experienced scientist stem cells but probably fast urbanism. Cattaneo says that “to plan the year investment of one billion and a half of public resources was enough urgency to put a ‘glamorous patch’ after the Expo”. Indeed, The keyhole is just a small plaster that covers a tiny portion of the plague. But it gives a good idea and suggests that, instead of talking about “petaloso”, we may associate the concepts of urgent and glamor talking about “Bertolaso” Human Techcnopole. Not be ashamed to introduce another new word in our language, a bit ‘dented by the invasion of the globish .
It is not new that the brick titillate academic aspirations ruler universities . Italy is full of examples of the combination between the poor land interest of private and para-public, backed by strong political appetites and creative financing, on the one hand; and ambitions mason academic leaders on the other. At the expense of researchers passionate but disaccorti that the waves of global competition, we insist on keeping afloat an Italian system of education and research being bombed from the outside and undermined from within itself.
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