This article is published in number 11 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 14, 2023
I’ve always wondered what the point of pain is. What is it for. Scientifically, pain serves to protect us, it’s like the warning of a danger. Feel a pain and withdraw your hand. In a more positive, perhaps progressive sense, pain can be a necessary step to grow, to go beyond a border, to create a world different from the one we all know. Sometimes, however, pain is useless: this is certainly the worst of horizons, the darkest, the most inhuman, the most painful indeed. In the face of the shipwreck of Crotone and the more than 70 victims, one feels a gloomy pain. A useless pain. And the problem is not so much the issue of smugglers, or the unresolved question of immigration that pushes from the South of the world to Europe or the policies that serve or do not serve to address these dilemmas, nor the responsibilities that will be shed light on. The problem concerns the inability to process such tremendous pain to make it something to work on, something that improves us, something that makes us at least take a step forward from indifference. Last week, in a video, a rescuer from Crotone damned himself for not being able to save a child from the fury of the sea. His pain was excruciating but forced us to understand, to empathize, to remind us what it means to be human. In another video, the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi demonstrated a lack of empathy and understanding of the tragedy of migrants such as to highlight what a useless pain is, a pain that serves no purpose. And here being of the right or of the left has nothing to do with it: the image of our President of the Republic in front of the coffin of Crotone explains to us what one must do in the face of pain, how it can perhaps be transformed into something useful for the future, how important it is to bow your head at least as a sign of respect. The rest is arrogance, ignorance, lack of empathy. A useless pain, in fact.
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