A national consciousness for a digital Italy

The Covid-19 emergency has demonstrated the fragility of human beings and the techno-globalizing structure focused on individual personal freedom. A process in which responsibility and foresight are wasted in the face of thousands of deaths worldwide and in which the economic impact risks destabilizing the pillars of modern society. A cultural turning point that has changed the paradigm of political and institutional partisanship within a cultural mainstream that has recognized itself as defenseless and lacking in content to be able to face similar crises.

Digital is indeed spoken of as a panacea for every evil without having a national consciousness that the use of digital instrumentation does not mean creating a culture linked to it capable of being a promoter of that added value that is desperately sought to emerge from the economic crisis of 2008.

Communicating means knowing, creating means predicting, but using does not mean deepening: we are in fact facing the complete collapse of the society of finite material (petroleum docet) to instead open the doors to the society of services intended not as extensions of a material need or need, but as a shared, traceable, inclusive and secure tool for our being citizens.

On this topic, I would like to deepen and address the issue of blockchain, which is often seen as something distant and perhaps unknown, but which today more than ever can be developed to meet the needs of a complex system: a continuous search for certainties and responsibilities in which territorial cohesion and the provision of services remain decisive for maintaining the identity of a place, a population, a common and recognized way of life.

The blockchain logically represents an alternative that certainly does not replace but increases, does not create, but widens the possibility of creating connections: today the flow of money represents a constant of our being alive and the need to be together in decisions, in facts, testifies to the importance we give to the immutability of the data over time. Our belief as living beings does not testify to the relevance of the fact, if not in terms of justice and morals.

The stage, therefore, of forced digitalization and the risk of increasing institutional and economic responsibility towards society in an allusive manner risks not being exhaustive in crucial moments such as the one we are experiencing today with the Covid-19 emergency in which we decide and operate in a sort of great cloudy sky.

Voting, deciding, understanding are cultural passages that arise from awareness of the interests of others in the perspective of the well-being of the community that must have a path capable of being rational, productive and certain. The political diatribe recognizes the great value of content, the blockchain testifies to it.

On this reflection, therefore, the indications could be significant: certified voting, the protection of rights, digital recognizability (ID), but the discourse from a cultural point of view on the subject would not be exhaustive. The point remains that of immutability: a difficult theme if we do not live in an emergency situation like an earthquake or a flood where the decision means recognizing oneself as a super partes role where consciousness and decision-making power must have the possibility of not having shades of vagueness and flows of historical memory too heavy to risk being canceled.

Someone could say “law is law”, but interpretation as such must guarantee transparency and recognition and the risk of legislative hypertrophy risks breaking this balance, making the protection of those who do not have a voice less effective. Digital could blind.

Here is a shared reflection on a crucial choice in the next political season. If, in fact, digital technology will exponentially increase the rights and responsibilities of individuals, modify the industrial sector, social relations, and the relationship between institutions and citizens, who will verify the facts and actions of our multifaceted role as consumers and producers of rights and responsibilities if we are not able to have technology that keeps pace with our development? Let’s think about it.