Symbols are important. Through symbols (be they photographs, films, written pages) generations understand the ages and healthy to judge the historical periods, people, the facts. Just think of the famous photo of the student in front of the Chinese tank in Beijing. This search for symbols that could stir the conscience, to appear suddenly lighting up a dark corner always thought this was flung open the collective consciousness we might wish Pier Pasolini Polo in his famous article entitled The process, wrote for the Corriere della evening more than 35 years ago. Here is a brief excerpt:
Now: unworthiness, contempt for the public, handling public money, wheeling and dealing with the oil companies, with industry, with bankers, complicity with the Mafia, high treason in favor of a foreign nation, collaboration with the CIA, illegal use by bodies such as the SID, responsibility in the massacre in Milan, Brescia and Bologna (at least as culpable failure to punish the perpetrators), destruction of landscape and urban planning in Italy, responsible for the degradation of Italian anthropological (responsabilità. this, compounded by his total unconsciousness), liability of the state, as they say, fearful of schools, hospitals and any public work primary responsibility of abandonment "savage" campaign, responsibility for the blast "wild" of mass culture and mass media, responsibility for criminal stupidity of television, responsibility decay of the Church, and finally, in addition to everything else, maybe even Bourbon distribution of public office to flatterers. [...]
or Fanfani Andreotti's image, or to Gava Restivo, handcuffed in the police, both metaphorical image. Their trial is a metaphor. In order to make my speech as well as sublime comic (like every monologue!), And above all very didactically clearer.
What would be revealed to the consciousness of Italian citizens in that process (as well as means, to the merits of the offenses set forth above according to an ethical if not legal terms)? It would
revealed something essential to Italian citizens for their existence, that is this: the powerful Democrats who have governed in the last ten years have not understood that it was historically exhausted the form of power that they had slavishly served in the past two decades (also drawing from all the possible profits) and that the new form of power he did not know more (and do not know) what to do with them.
Article prophetic at the time. In fact the process was really there to Andreotti (here's prophecy), although it has turned into a kind of absolution (in fact, have taken the requirements, but that's another story). What matters is, however, that with Andreotti trial has hailed the first republic. So strongly that image evocative really did understand the Italians the end of an era, was a symbolic image as Pasolini wished.
Unfortunately, the new era, those who succeeded the so-called First Republic, was no better. Indeed, in some ways is worse. But if you wanted to search for images of the symbol for the contemporary time, you should think about something that happened yesterday. And it is a fact that, for the simple reason that it had never happened before, it could become really a symbol of a new phase. Senator Di Girolamo yesterday morning was a senator of the Republic and last night a prisoner. It 's a really sena done before. Think of the parable of this man leaving the Senate, yesterday, had in mind only the bag to be prepared to bring cell. No one defended it, no one has done rallying around him as it almost always happens. So the path has become straightforward: the power to jail. What is the beginning of a new era?
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