We are keen to rediscover Magna Graecia not just as curious and passive contemplators of a distant past, but to seek its stimuli and inspirations to better ourselves and the world which we live in. Our ever more technological civilization is increasingly drying up our humanity, making our relationships with others more and more impersonal. Human beings, who once represented the end of all means, are rapidly becoming a means to the attainment of other ends. Certain dimensions of our spirit are disappearing because the technology applied to all fields wants us to be more consumers of goods than poets, more molecules of an immense social structure than individual entities, more technological ingredients than creators. 

For us, knowing Magna Graecia means bringing some fading humanistic values back to life. We are not against technology, which is the practical application of science that finds its roots in culture. Nevertheless, we are convinced that, by looking at technological development from a humanistic standpoint, we will be able to better understand where the line, beyond which humans become slaves to machines created to be their slave, lies.

And now I would also like to add something about the search for one's roots. In the last twenty years, in all ethnic groups in countries with many emigrants, such as the United States, for various reasons that we cannot examine here, there has been strong interest in the search for one's own cultural and spiritual roots. Ethnic groups feel that the immigrant still lacks something to feel complete. He has a sense of belonging to the homeland in which he lives, works and prospers; But he also needs to feel part of the other homeland, the one that gives him his cultural identity.