Message for the new year
The professor Michele Capasso - Secretary General of the "United States of the World" and president of the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" - addressed, as usual, a message for the new year 2023.
The hope is that in this year we can reach a truce and then peace in Ukraine and in other parts of the world through the enhancement of diversity.
“Only by tackling, solving and harmonizing diversity, conditions of misery, ignorance and injustice in the world - says prof. Capasso - it is possible to extinguish hotbeds of discord, riot, hatred; it must be understood that diversities, if harmonized, constitute a strength and a source of enrichment for all humanity, complementing each other instead of opposing each other. It is not a question of pursuing a system of universal harmony, as Fourier or Leibnitz wished, because we started from a pre-established universal harmony: the great inequalities existing between our brothers and sisters scattered throughout the world require our commitment to harmonize them. On this theme it is worth proposing an example: if in an orchestra everyone played on their own, a 'cacophony' would arise; if all the instruments were identical, it would be 'monotony'; the inequality of instruments and the harmonization of sounds is much better to arrive at a great ‘universal symphony’”.
Since 1990, the United States of the World has had a representative seat for institutional and cultural activities in Rome. Located near Piazza del Popolo, it is a landmark of high culture and has seen the presence of Heads of State, Nobel Prize winners and academics from all over the world.
Since 1990, the United States of the World has had a representative office in Naples with an annexed library - in addition to the one in Via Depretis - for institutional and cultural activities. Located in Mergellina (Naples), it is a landmark of high culture and has been attended by Heads of State, Nobel Prize winners and academics from all over the world.
