Why the South Doesn't Rebel? "La Rana Bollita" by Pietro Massimo Busetta Tomorrow at Circolo Posillipo

How come a Community, mistreated for years by a hostile country, due to the collusion between the ruling class of the North and the dominant extractive class of the South, for which the only development project would seem to concern the emigration of over 100,000 young people and adults every year, does not rebel? How come the lack of infrastructure does not trigger any reaction? How come we endure a health system that forces the luckiest, in the most delicate cases, to take a plane to be able to have a good service and the others, often, to inadequate treatment? And tolerates an educational process lacking nursery schools, the fight against school dropout, full-time? Why does not understand that it is now an internal colony? These are the questions that Busetta asks himself in “Rana Bollita”. Which will be presented in Naples on May 15th in a meeting organized by Lion Napoli Host , at the Circolo nautico Posillipo from 17:30 in which Ottavio Lucarelli, president of the Order of Journalists of Campania, will interview the Author Pietro Massimo Busetta. We will talk about the slaps suffered and those announced, highlighting the shortcomings that have occurred in the material and immaterial infrastructure, the absence of rights, the failed insurrections of recent years and finally the possible evolutions, retracing what seems to be the chronicle of a death foretold.

The aim of the essay is to awaken consciences to prevent the injustices suffered and the differences in development from leading to widespread anger, which results in a request for separation already deeply felt by a non-marginal part of the population or in violent forms of rebellion. Pietro Massimo Busetta, full professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Palermo, founder of AIM (Alleanza Istituti Meridionalisti), member of the Board of Directors of Svimez since 2015, president of IS.ES.ST (Istituto Esperti Studi Territoriali) and of the Centro Studi La Loggia, has been a columnist for Il Sole 24 Ore, Affari & Finanza, La Repubblica, La Sicilia and the Giornale di Sicilia and for Il Quotidiano del Sud. A freelance journalist for 35 years. Awarded with the Sele d'oro 2019 for The Crocodile drowned himself, with the Rhegium Juli 2022 for The Wolf and the Lamb, with the journalism and literary award 2023 Marzani for The Frog and the Scorpion, all published by Rubbettino. He received the "Eccellenze Meridionali" award for The Boiled Frog.