Writing Was Not a Choice

I did not start writing because I wanted to become a writer.

I started writing because, at a certain point, observing was no longer enough.

I am a Carabiniere (Italian military police).

Over the years, I have worked in Italy and abroad, coming into contact with very different environments. Real situations, often complex, that forced me to observe human behavior without filters.

That is where everything becomes clearer.

People do not change slowly.
They change when they are pushed.

Technology does not create these dynamics.
It accelerates them.

It speeds up the need for visibility.
It amplifies the conflict between who we are and what we show.
It reduces the time we have to understand what is happening.

The result is an imbalance.

More and more people struggle to distinguish between real identity and constructed identity.
Between choice and conditioning.
Between control and loss of control.

Writing became necessary at that point.

Not to tell stories, but to bring order.

My books come from this.

They do not explain technology.
They show what happens to people when technology enters their lives without filters.

In Me and the AI, the dialogue with a machine becomes a confrontation with oneself.
In Challenge Accepted, the need for visibility goes beyond the limits of safety.
In Noah, digital identity becomes a space for manipulation.
In Out of Step, the discomfort of those who do not recognize themselves in the collective direction emerges.
In The Restless Farmer, the conflict between tradition and modernity becomes part of everyday life.

These are not separate stories.

They are variations of the same problem.

How do we remain clear-minded in a world that changes faster than we do?

Writing, for me, is not a final destination.

It is a way to observe more deeply.

—
Gaetano Buglisi

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