The Ancient Rome I think was a beautiful place, but now it’s a bit of mess. And I’m saying that as an italian, there are lots of troubles with the Italian capital: garbage and fires, lots of wild boars, public transport doesn’t work, etc… I prefer to visit some similar ancient monuments in the south Italy like the Taormina ancient theater, the Valle dei Templi, the Alberobello Trulli, etc…
You should very certainly reinstate representative democracy: where you vote for a candidate and are systemically entitled to reasonable direct relation with them. (You know, what was in place before. Let us not dwell into uncomfortable details.)
This was what the Movimento 5 Stelle said before they ruled the city for years, and now Rome is the same situation with a mayor from another political party…
Non so neanche io cosa si può fare per cambiare Roma, forse devono cambiare i romani…
Italians in general. Looking like people who are sold broken stuff and spoiled food and going "acceptance of what life gives you" about it: normally, one complains.
It is as if the concept of duly respect of limits was gone societally.
You know, there is this English word, 'frown', which comes from French and Gaulish: it means to make a monstrous expression through "making big nostrils" - 'frogne', the nostrils of an animal. If only the rich Italian language had a word for _unduly passivity_, maybe something like "marked by having one's nostrils made monstrously enlarged, animal-like"...
Addendum: I only now read properly the expression:
> This was what X said before they ruled the city for years, and now
This directly translates to: "X stated that individual citizens should take action to bring change. /Incidentally/, X was /also/ appointed, and nothing changed". No information is there about the actions taken by individual citizens.
Berlin proper has one of the highest density boar populatipns in Germany, including woodlands. As have other urban areas. Fun fact, hunters in those regions have the legal obligation to use silencers. Those are practically illegal in Germany otherwise.
Yes, indeed they’re coming in the city because of the uncollected garbage. They’re searching food inside. One problem that points to another… Rome is beautiful but very complicated!
We have this problem in Haifa, Israel too. The city borders on natural woodland, and the boars go into the neighborhoods looking for food in the trash.
