Zachraňte Itálii - Politicky nekorektní bloumání rodištěm evropské civilizace – Kuras Benjamin (2018)

With his usual tragicomic perspective, Benjamin Kuras presents his thoroughly rummaged, scrutinized, and savored Italy as the birthplace of our civilization and its archive, museum, pinacotheca, phonotheca, and gastroteca. He guides us from region to region through magnificent cities and surprising towns, fascinating buildings, prominent figures from its history, the bizarre aspects of its traditions and customs, the gems of its gastronomy, the treasures of its artistic, musical, and literary creations, and its design. He anxiously contrasts this with its current crises: economic (4 million below the poverty line, a third of youth unemployed), demographic (a population decline due to births and emigration of a quarter of a million annually, depopulation of the countryside and smaller towns), migration (continuing hundreds of thousands of Afro-Islamic illegal immigrants), a waning respect for its civilizational achievements, a weakening of the qualities and skills that formed it, and a loss of continuity, meaning, and the will to continue. With fears of the impending end of this civilizational wealth, he invites us to urgently begin to absorb it for our own cultural and civilizational salvation.