That of the Bridge, on a purely ideological and representative level, is one of the most seductive metaphors in the history of humanity for being suitable for arousing in the collective imagination the idea of "bringing into relationship" otherwise distant entities in order to overcome the condition of isolation between self and neighbor.
Nothing quaestio on the emotional experiential level, it is a question of giving an understandable outlet and satisfaction to the wholly human need to create points of contact by exploiting the conditioning power of an archetype. On a practical level, however, the question would seem to appear in all its complexity: ideological-representative even before factual-constructive. All the more so when the subject of discussion in the last few days was the decree law containing "urgent provisions for the construction of the stable connection between Sicily and the continent". To be clear, that of the bridge over the Strait of Messina (the project for which, according to forecasts, will have to be approved by 31 July 2024), since, in the opinion of the Ministry led by the secretary of the League Matteo Salvini, a priority work to ensure the development of the Noon.
Now, whether the Bridge over the Strait alone (admitted and probably not granted that the work itself is convenient on an economic, ecological, geological and landscape level) is useful for guaranteeing the functional and systematic development of the entire South remains to be seen , and, on balance, it would be legitimate to doubt it, since, with good likelihood, and to the profane and imperative "eye" of the citizen who finds himself conducting even a pure and simple reasoning of the occasion, it would seem to leap to mind be any more appropriate consideration on the lack and/or age of the already existing infrastructures, both on the internal roads and on the railways on a large part of the national territory, including Sardinia.
And yet, the bridge over the Strait, and above all that one, seems to have become the programmatic manifesto of the Ministry of Transport under the aegis of the Meloni government, the ideological image of a titanic design, as probably (the doubtful form is a must), who knows, not exactly indispensable, always assuming and perhaps not granted that it can be achieved given that for about forty years it has been the usual unfinished project that has never been started, which would like to have a concrete experience of unity and diversity.
