With the publication of issue 169 of Prometeo – available from today in subscribers’ homes, at newsstands and in the two online versions – we begin our 43rd year of activity. During this long period of time we have seen entire worlds collapse and new realities emerge: not only from a geopolitical point of view but also in many other contexts of our life. Among the first in terms of impact and importance I would place the digital developments and those of artificial intelligence – which have redefined the perception of ourselves and of reality
As this editorial is being written, which you can only read here on the website, our world too appears unrecognizable. The mainstream newspapers have been busy declaring Europe “isolated” after the possible convergence between the American and Russian presidencies, with the aggravating factor of onerous customs duties that seem to be building, for the first time in about two centuries, a very high barrier between the shores of the Atlantic.
But is it really like that?
Or is this just a very coded surface, below which, with a very irregular but very intense motion, new balances and old subordination are being redefined?
Not us, but to tell the truth, no one else either – no offense to those who consider themselves experts – has a truthful and unquestionable answer at this moment.
It is equally true that the questions raised by Europe’s new choice of rearmament have caused rifts in political groups, inflamed passions, mobilized the streets, and in the saddest cases, broken long-standing friendships.
They are the abysmal peaks of our times.
There is a radical need to draw on free intelligences, on dry words, on data collected honestly and cross-checked, and then critically process them.
Will we do it? Absolutely not.
Prometeo will continue to avoid the subject – despite the (much appreciated) letters from some of our loyal readers. The fact is very simple: we are and want to be a quality cultural magazine. Current affairs, although today oversized by a strong and alarming feeling of epochal change, is not and cannot be the terrain of our editorial activity.
However, we too will make a small contribution in the direction of welcoming some important intellectual stimuli on international current affairs. In the next few days we will upload to the Omnibus section of the site the contributions of some scholars who have the merit of offering thoughtful and original points of view in this sea of whispers and shouts. We will also post all the relevant information on Facebook and Instagram (ask us to be your friend, so you’ll receive notifications).
In the meantime, however, read and have others read this Prometeo 169 from the fateful month of March 2025: one of the best in our long history
Gabriella Piroli