After several months spent reading novels more or less well written and exciting, I find myself in his hands, on direct advice from above, Tampering with the words, Gianrico Carofiglio a sort of essay on the decline language of modern society that, in addition to waste day after day, the very essence of which is, does the same with the most exclusive and highest ever managed to produce the man's words.
After the adventures of falsifiers Parisian booksellers, Commissioners for a walk in the Ticino and children that are closed for days in the cellar of the house, I devour these pages that talk about us, me and, basically, whatever surrounds us. And 'this appeal of current that I could not resist.
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| protesters celebrate and shout slogans Following Their takeover of Benghazi. Even amid the euphoria, Rumors Abound That Moammar Khadafy will strike back, Either through massive aerial or naval bombardments or through a string of attacks from stealth His plainclothes agents. (Suhaib Salem / Reuters) |
"Almost all the revolutions that have changed the physiognomy of the people were made to consecrate or to destroy the inequality. Discard the secondary causes that have produced great excitement, and almost always arrive at the inequality," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville.
The word evokes rebellion immediately, physical violence, the brutal reversal of the order of things. On the surface, it seems to return the opposite of the law, as suggested by the dictionaries. But, perhaps, in this case more than in the other it is useful to check what is its opposite. Its against, indeed, the most significant: repression, obedience, resignation. And I would add, tyranny.
claiming the right to conscientious objection Don Lorenzo Milani, wrote to the military chaplains Tuscan
"Tell us exactly what you have taught the soldiers? Obedience at all costs? And if the order was the bombing of civilians, retaliatory action on a helpless village, the summary execution of the partisans, the use of nuclear weapons, biological, chemical, torture, killing of hostages, the summary trials for mere suspicions, the decimation (choose at random some soldiers in the country and shoot him to strike terror in the other soldiers of the Fatherland), a war of aggression evident, the order of a rebel officer to the sovereign people, the repression of demonstrations popular? "
Our thoughts, of course, Libya, in this hour of theater that probably define something inhuman, is an understatement. genocides, our matte atom of evil, has seen several. Every time watching with detachment, so helpless. What makes us so shocking of these tragic events that are consuming the doors of the house?
1) First, as I just wrote, all happening at our doorstep, for use an expression dear to the usual, ill-concealed, xenophobic Northern League. That is the last resistance that, like it or not, is (was?) from the wall, bulwark, illegal immigration embarking among many refugees, political prisoners, poor people, even a professional criminals. In other words, given that, previously, had a form a little 'ethereal, distant, undefined, as well as everything that goes into our homes through radio and television, it ceases to be "living room chats" and you suddenly close present.
2) Let's talk of the league. The day before yesterday, that Daniel Stival, the regional minister of migration (you really pay for that?), Comes out with this sentence , about the possibility of countering Libyan immigration of refugees: "We can also Greece, Spain and Croatia, we should get ourselves using machine gun. "triumph of reaction, the top of the league a bit 'embarrassed and touched this nerve, which are quick to dissociate themselves from what escaped from Nazi with this cute green scarf, believed to improve things before you apologizes and says that after "an image that was used, referring to a phrase spoken by Borghezio, the need to be rigid." Almost like quote Aristotle. And if he was referring to known sexual prowess of the party's most embarrassing story ' Italy ("We've got it tough League), remains to be seen.
3) One thing, however, the green shirts are probably right: the need for Europe united, together, build a unified plan and reasonable in terms of immigration policy. This was confirmed a few nights ago in the living room Maroni Che tempo che fa. One can only agree, but as reasoned a couple of nights ago in front of a beer with a couple of friends, until we send into exile in Brussels, the aforementioned Borghezio (notorious for bringing pigs on the land of a mosque under construction and had "sanitized" train seats where they sat immigrants), Mortal Coil, and whoever has had oral sex with the top of the PDL, well, in this case, probably, there is little to complain or demand.
4) Can you imagine what must be for a people, see what is basically his boss, President, prophet, dictator, tyrant, if you will, that sort of a mercenary hired to fly ah hoc on cities of his country and shoot, shoot, shoot when they see a group of people walking to the road? Days ago there was talk of 10,000 dead, then the estimates are a bit 'disappeared from the headlines. When will it end?
5) The main concerns are the reactions from across the pond. The Mercegaglia, the day of the massacre, think of the billions invested in Tripoli Italian polluters and many Italians seem more worried by rising gasoline prices. Berlusconi first does not want to disturb the Libyan dictator who, Judging by some photos dating back only a few months ago, has been shown to have a certain kind of feeling then, because the relevance of the question the media, and portrayed him as "crazy", saying that might be able to launch from one moment to 'Another of the rockets on Italy. Not have given a big enough tent on the occasion of his visit in Rome?
6) Finally, I invite you to reread the interview dusted by the carrier in these days of Oriana Fallaci to Gaddafi, dated 1979. On the one hand the madness of a dictator, that ego a bit suffocating 'everything (even himself), the other a true journalist, can lead to uncomfortable questions and the powerful. Can you imagine Fazio national in its place? She would come out with the classic "I'm really happy to present this Green Paper of Colonel Gaddafi."
