ABSTRACT
The schism of postmodernism was not enough to declare the end of modernity; perhaps the effects of the crisis that is shaking the world economic system will continue for so long that it will cast doubts on the persistence of a modern spirit, which has now concluded its life cycle. Observed from the right distance that history allows, from this point of view, all forms of inclusion are formal palliatives, modalities of social control, whose concession has the purpose of binding individuals to the system with no possibility of escape. Among the various hypotheses about this, Sergio Cecchi believes that modernity is structurally directed towards exclusion, even if it describes itself as naturally inclusive. Equality, proclaimed loudly in constitutional charters and denied in fact, proves to be a cultural concept. Marginalisation is thus presented as something accidental, which society denies in principle, while, in reality, it is the common condition for the majority.
