Italy is a republic founded on the past. In a perpetual retrospective of itself, it remains trapped in the trauma of its lost glory. Consider the promotional video for Italy's failed bid for Expo 2030. Time flows at the slow pace of seemingly new speeches and narratives nostalgically linked to the past, but the present struggles to unfold without condemning itself to the repetition of "to be reborn again." In a country whose cultural landscape remains saturated with echoes that violently stifle the emergence of any other voice, what is the path towards realizing a true future?