Here I tell very personal things, and I do so not only to make the reader understand my goals and the reasons that led me to undertake a risky journey to the point that most people consider it crazy, reckless.
I feel I must do it precisely because the themes I care most about communicating, the general ones that concern most people and the human communities in which we live, risk being overshadowed by a personal story worthy of a novel.
I want it to be clear from the start that I am fine with “putting on a show” by telling my story with all the emotion that characterized it, but only as long as this brings the public’s attention to the “real” problems, which are anything but individual; personally I consider them widespread to the point of defining them as pervasive in our current society, and I refer not only to Italy but to the entire Western world, to much of South America, to numerous North African states, and to other nations that I do not list here only because I do not believe I know their situation in sufficient detail.
So I prefer to pay my dues to the personal right away in order to attract the public’s attention through a “strange” but real and verifiable story, and then demonstrate things, list facts, give information, communicate ideas and raise alarms that concern entire communities in general.
It is a bit what I do when I teach a course and at the beginning I tell personal things, always real but unusual and often comic, which have a weak correlation with the subject matter of the lesson, only to let the students release with a laugh all the tension of the first contact with the subject and the teacher, using theatricality and humor to bring attention to the points I consider most important in the learning path.