How many times we go through different situations that because they are new or just because of their characteristics, we want to remember them, to keep them alive in our memory and to tell others about them… how many time do we feel that urge to capture all those feelings in a picture, a movie, a drawing… and how many times this fascination has taken us to write – without the appropriate tools or in an inappropriate moment – these circumstances that have called our attention…
So, here it is my starting point… that pleasant urge for writing that I felt when traveling through different countries and that has led me to take notes of those trips where not only I describe situations, facts, people and things, but also several human feelings that appear involuntarily when facing new circumstances.
It was that thought, written in my trip diaries, the one that has driven my attention and made me get daily information on what is happening I other countries, to cooperate with “barcellonapg.it”, where I am in charge of the World News link, and to try “La Specula” experience: steps taken side by side with other people that have built something unique and indivisible that involves the pleasure of living and going through the most different circumstances and that comes together in the observation of the political, social and cultural phenomenon of different countries.
This activity represents several situations like the relationship between the people and a territory, and tries to give value to the concept of population and nation. Different ideas that come from the same concept of “people”: on one hand it refers to all of those that in certain historical moment lived in a State territory and were ruled by its laws; and on the other hand, an ethnical and social entity with a characteristic mixture of races, languages, traditions and religions.
This is how “La Specula” was born, as a human phenomenon observation and analysis point that were growing in the many political communities of the world. A characteristic that comes from the name, “specula”, latin word that means observation point or observatory and that modified into “specola”, it means the current astronomical towers that can be seen all along Italy or the modern white domes placed in the mountains where no artificial light is available.
And although incapable yet to make us understand the famous mystery of the great and improbable “Specula Melitensis” (1), the Internet and technology gives us the possibility to set up an “exploration experiment” that does not limit us to the political news of the different States but that makes of the international culture its own symbol, cause there is nothing better than to live in a map.