ACR Onlus invites a greater diffusion of Rural Culture throughout Italy with initiatives and projects to teach man the now lost more coherent and sincere relationship with nature.
In recent years, the battle against us conducted by the most intransigent part coming from urban culture, guilty of having produced a distorted conception of environmentalism and a man-nature relationship that is harmful to our children, has imposed on us all the necessary and serious reflections .
At the first signs that this battle did not concern only "leisure" activities such as hunting and fishing as in the "green" years but inexorably affected our entire culture, we immediately understood that we could not alone do anything against that "monster social ”- as Henry David Thoreau, the inspiring philosopher of Wilderness, called it - which had now invaded schools, media and institutions.
The rural category that insists on thinking that it can do it alone will be destined to succumb, given to that monster that is devouring what once represented true well-being: that man-nature relationship based on simplicity, on being rather than on appearing and on a concept of life and death very different from that of today. Years ago we would never have believed that the thought of man, through the most varied arguments that have invested all fields of human knowledge, would go so far as to openly condemn those who, for example, eat meat.
The movements that have arisen in this regard, those that hope for a vegetarian world and that have begun to impose their diet on their dogs and cats that have been castrated in the living room, seem to have gone beyond the limits of reason, involving even the delicate labyrinths of religiosity; they dared, in the name of the ethics that revolves around the balance between man and nature, where no one else had dared before. In this situation, with this social climate, asking for dignity and respect - both from a moral and legislative point of view - for those who still procure food such as hunters or fishermen, or for those who raise animals for our families, is perfectly useless.
Our weapons must then be culture and education in order to re-establish a balanced contact with public opinion, now prey to television images or news reports that are completely distorted and increasingly distant from reality and nature. We must instill the confidence in our children that another man can be, that he should not be ashamed of how he was born because he eats meat, that recreation in nature is the best lifeline in this sea of hypocrisy and ignorance of the laws. of the same.
The Association for the Defense and Promotion of Rural Culture - Onlus has started this path. It has set itself the goal of countering that "monster", putting knowledge before not knowing.
Each of us, in this sense, can do something; a recent example comes from our friend Igor Radere who, following in the footsteps of Maestro Antonio Pinotti, brought our culture into schools.
ACR is currently also present at an exhibition on the origins of man in collaboration with the Jesolo Natural History Museum which is having a large following, with thousands of visiting children. Also recent was the success of an event organized by Slow Food that asked us for collaboration in order to bring people our reasons, our way of being which is certainly also made up of healthy and genuine food. It is our Culture that is slowly invading a world that did not know us and that goes beyond the presence of the usual trade fairs dedicated to the sector where those who frequent them already know what we want to say.
We must go out and talk to those who do not know and to do this we cannot present ourselves only as the defenders of this or that category but, on the whole, as the bearers of a culture whose values and principles could truly constitute the best "medicine" for the children of our time. The opening of educational centers and the management of protected areas are also planned in which, finally, it is possible to teach not how the urban person sees or would like nature but what it is in its simplest essence, in which man does not be detached, respecting what it is.
To continue with the projects and to create new ones throughout Italy, funds are needed, and more than anything else we need people who, like us, believe it is worth teaching what we have learned, what our life has been and is.
We are organizing a meeting with all the forces that revolve around Rural Culture and on that occasion, preferring the things that unite us over those that divide, we will develop strategies so that the man of our time, often unaware of how much he might need a a more coherent and sincere relationship with nature, may another man learn from his own history. It is also essential not to waste any more time and begin to establish the Association for the Defense and Promotion of Rural Culture - Onlus throughout the national territory. We will do this through regional, provincial and municipal representatives.
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