Mario Monicelli

Revolution

What can I say?

He's right. Certainly right.

Protest in the street now is useless. 

With the media that we have now we could really invent something new.

What would happen?

We are all Calderoli

There is a good book by Golding: The Lord of the Flies.

The story seems to be rather simple. It’s about a group of shipwrecked kids who find themselves on a desert island. With no adults in sight, what drives these kids is their instinct.

Golding’s tale is an eye-opener that displays a truth that is not so obvious these days: kids aren’t born good, in spite of what we seem to give for granted. It’s quite the opposite, actually. Men are born with the worst primordial instincts. The selfishness of the spirit of survival, but also violence and fear of those who are different from us (it looks like the Lega’s manifesto!)

Only with a solid education we learn those ideals that allow us to hide, deep in our soul, the primitive animals we once were.

In short, man’s evolutionary path starts low in order to reach the most noble ideals: fraternity, solidarity, and the love for our neighbors.

To simplify even further: we all start as Calderoli, but one day we’ll be Jesus Christ.

Io non mi sento italiano

Congratulations to Berlusconi

I’d like to express my congratulations to Berlusconi.

Yesterday “our” PM managed to surpass himself. Once again he managed to turn the tables against his accusers while talking about the last issues he has been involved in.

The facts are, sadly enough, well-known: Berlusconi called the police headquarters in Milan to release a friend of his, the underage girl “of the week”. Her stage-name is Ruby – and her stage is, well, you know…Berlusconi lied to the policemen (he claimed that the girl was Mubarak’s niece) and asked them to turn a blind eye on the case.

The fuss that ensued was fairly predictable once these things came out. What to do though?

It’s here that Berlusconi – or his ghostwriters – came up with his biggest surprise, declaring that it’s “better to be fond of good-looking girls than being gay”

It’s hard to believe that Berlusconi wasn’t aware that his new “joke” wouldn’t go down well with everyone. Listening to the tape, however, it is possible to gauge that his wasn’t a gaffe, but rather a well-thought line.

By stating that it’s better to chase skirts than being homosexuals, Berlusconi is simply “speaking the truth”. Sadly a truth that is widely believed by many of his electors. Creating this corollary “mediatic mess”, however, Berlusconi managed to divert public  attention from two problematic issues:

Firstly, the Prime Minister has personally called the police headquarters in Milan (lying) in order to release a Moroccan escort that had been arrested for theft (must be hard to explain it to his friends from Lega Nord!)

Secondly, even the last hooker in Milan has Berlusconi on her speed-dial!

Absolutely brilliant!

A pretty weird country

Italy is a pretty weird country.

A normal citizen has to work for 40 years in order to – hopefully – get a pension at some point in his life.

A MP gets this after 5 years of service. There are even those who have been MPs for a day and get a pension of more than 3.000 Euros a month.

This is just one of the many things that differentiate us from what is now widely considered as a “caste” of politicians.

Politicians have evolved from representatives of the people into some kind of modern nobility.  

They live ignoring laws, protected by an immunity that applies to virtually every crime, from corruption to mafia crimes. And this is often not enough, as they change laws in order not to be persecuted.

 Their “reign” is based upon the indifference of the Italians – ready to worry about a football match, but too ignorant and superficial to analyze the decisions of our government. Those who try to protest – as in the case of the MP Antonio Borghesi – are ignored or denigrated by many of those TV channels and newspapers owned by our Prime Minister.

We haven’t been a democratic country for years, so much so that we can’t decide our own candidates – parties do this for us. And we don’t even understand what this means.

We are going through a new fascism. Less violent, for the time being. But with the same roots and the same ends: deny the rights of the majority in order to defend the interests of the lucky few.   

Fuck you

This song by Lily Allen is, first of all, a moral declaration.

This “fuck you” is for all those who discriminate against homosexuals (so much so that it’s almost become an anthem against sexual discrimination)

 But it also applies to all the bigots and racists around us.

We are tired of listening to your narrow-minded views. We’ve had enough of the hatred and fear that you spread like a mental plague.

Fuck you!

In the world we’ll build there is no space for you!