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grated thinking, but it may also stimulate new conflicts, especially if
each nationality strictly maintains its particular values and prejudices.
Therefore, a common culture is not needed — due to the risk of a new
monistic, hegemonic and "dominant" imposition, that is, the culture of
the strongest; instead, the need exists for a plural, open, shared, and
subordinate way of thinking.
What characteristics should this kind of thinking have? I think the icon
of this form of reasoning could be Odysseus/ulysses, as his life was engaged
in travelling, discovering, and overcoming obstacles. Cognitive, affective,
and existential thinking is needed to participate in common enterprise.
"you were not made to live like brute animals, but to live in pursuit of
virtue and knowledge," said Dante Alighieri in his Comedy about ulysses,
the typically "clever" Mediterranean hero. Such knowledge must be open
to multiplicity, differences, and conflicts, challenging nature and history
in a "clever" way, with a "well-made rather than a well-filled head," as per
Morin’s words.
how are the responses to these challenges implemented? how is the
complexity of thinking reaffirmed and developed while "reconnecting what
was artificially separated"? Global thinking is at the same time complex
thinking. hegemonic power (North) is able to reach a globalized thinking
at the dominant economic level, but appears to be unable to reach complex
thinking (that is exactly the opposite of "dominant", one-dimensional
thinking). The South may become the leader of complex thinking, i.e., more
capable of non-dominant, non-rigid, but open and flexible thinking. how
can this thinking be trained?
INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENTS TO FOSTER A SPECIFIC SOUTHERN
IDENTITY
Some innovative pilot experiments have been implemented to create
a different mentality, in contrast to the dominant one (based on openmindedness),
from which new and original social-economic processes can
present themselves. These experiments involved educational fields, like
vocational counselling in educational settings established in a Southern
identity, i.e., a less developed economy, high emigration rates, and low
education. Differently from media-based, useless stereotypes that foster
passivity and collectivization of the mind (e.g., regarding works suitable
for genders and social classes), an open-mindedness based on self-transcending
and cooperative values oriented by universalism and benevolence,
driving towards solidarity, will modify attitudes toward the personal and
collective future.
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