Treccani Emporium’s word of the week: ‘vision’. The great absentee of contemporary politics

Squeezed into the present, in a perennial electoral campaign, it lacks a long horizon on which to project ideals and converge actions

The word of the week from Treccani Emporium is vision. It is the great absence of contemporary politics. Pressed on the present, in a perennial electoral campaign, it lacks a long horizon on which to project ideals and converge actions.

THE ITALIAN G7 IN BORGO EGNAZIA

In the Italian G7 in Borgo Egnazia, the agenda of the world’s leaders is linked to major international crises. Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa, wars are in charge. To get out of it, you need a vision, in fact. A new landmark of peace that takes into account global balances that have been subverted compared to the past and knows how to weigh them on the scales of history. The new world will not belong to those with more muscles, but to those who will be the first to imagine a new international, de-globalised scenario, where states once again mark their own borders but are still able to hold themselves together. There are many challenges, from the ecological to the technological one. And here Pope Francis, the first pontiff to cross the threshold of a summitof the planet’s powerful people, he brought his vision of the world to come, dominated by intelligence artificial. The human person, the Pope warns, must remain at the center even with the spread of new technologies. That they will never have to widen the distance with the South of the world.