Our job is—in keeping with the exhortation of the great Italian poet Savinio—“to tell our own story.” Our task as intellectuals, as persons who mount the pulpit or the stage, and who, most importantly, address to young people, our task is not just to teach them method, like how to use the arms, how to control breathing, how to use the stomach, the voice, the falsetto, the contracampo. It’s not enough to teach a technique or a style: we have to show them what is happening around us. They have to be able to tell their own story. A theater, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.