Misfits

They came first for...

They came first for the Communists,and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up

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!