Tiziano Terzani, the Italian journalist, once wrote: “I wonder how long this world will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman, and immoral criteria of the global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets, set aside for when, after the Middle Age of materialism, humanity will have to start putting other values into its existence.” How long can we resist in the condition we are living in today? How long can