In today’s turbo-politics we grow quickly but fall more quickly

25 September 20204 years ago babelfish

The current turbo-policy seems to be oriented towards immediate results, and we see it in many fields, where the rapidity of the response prevails over its reliability … How long will the building built in a hurry to last to be higher at any cost? Aren't many people making that mistake? Tactics prevails today, and by far, strategy and parties do not seem to have enough time to build solid and durable buildings. It is easy to say victory, what the electoral result was, because different meters are chosen to measure the height of the tower built by the voters, without asking whether it is resistant …

The results of the very recent constitutional referendum, combined, as now almost always, with the administrative elections in important Italian regions, offers us the starting point for a somewhat different analysis, one that goes beyond the strictly party connotations and legitimate sympathies for this or that coalition. I am referring to the curious similarities with the world of Science (forgive me the capital) or, better still, to the scientific teachings that are too often forgotten or neglected by politics. Let's start from here: let's assume that the electoral results are the total of the water contained in a bucket that is more or less quickly and completely filled by the pouring into it by simultaneous water contributions by means of glasses, buckets and containers of various sizes. Whatever the contribution of individual voters who add water to the bucket, the final result will be given by the total weight of the bucket (including tare). That said, we can immediately say that a small bucket will fill up quickly, even if only by adding water to glasses and this is the result of some small political formations that in no time have filled their container and that today are celebrating victory. for this.

At this point the question will be to decide whether to pour the small bucket into a larger one, helping to increase its level and weight, or to be content with keeping the one that is full and challenging the larger ones, which may have remained half empty. Moreover, the obstacle arises in deciding whether there should be many small buckets, whose added content makes up the total that counts (proportional system), or whether to introduce, in varying degrees, water into a few large buckets, then giving prevalence to what weighs more (majority system). There are countless conflicting theories and even many intermediate solutions. This is the art of politics, with the attached famous bipartition between those who see the bucket half full or half empty.

If anything, we could ask ourselves about the previous phase, that of the electoral campaign and the expectations of the respective owners of the buckets. Those who boasted and longed to fill their own in a short time, did not always take into account that this result would have been achieved only if the voters had poured water in large quantities, and many have neglected to consider that filling huge buckets sometimes take a long time because the tools available to contributors are small and some even lose, with the result that the time allowed before they are full will run out. If, on the contrary, it is proposed to fill the famous bucket with considerably greater and hasty supplies, it could happen that it overflows, dispersing a lot of water on the ground, and perhaps the maximum capacity will not be reached. In other times, many would have preferred to fill the bucket drop by drop or with a spoon, obtaining the result of making the heap without letting it overflow. Today the time is dramatically short, so it is preferred to pour buckets into other buckets, sometimes even overturning the receiving one due to the impact of too much dynamic mass. In science, short times (but above all haste) rarely generate positive reactions, actually generating chaotic ones, while we know that gutta cavat lapidem. The current turbo-policy seems in fact to be oriented to immediate results, and we see it in many fields, where the speed of the response prevails over its reliability.

Apart from the hydraulic considerations, we could make hundreds of similar examples by resorting to other disciplines of physics, such as those governed by the laws of statics. If the result to be achieved (quickly) were to build the tallest tower, and the competitors could have diversified materials, the team that stacked empty mineral water baskets, very light to carry up and relatively reliable as a structure, would probably win. constructive, at least if examined individually and for the main use for which they were designed, compared to the slow overlapping of bricks cemented together and perhaps with a wider base than its top. The ancients were not fools and did things calmly, with the result that many of their works have resisted wind, corrosion, even earthquakes. How long will the quickly built building last to be taller at any cost? Aren't many people making that mistake? Tactics prevails today, and by far, strategy and parties do not seem to have enough time to build solid and durable buildings. It is easy to sing victory, what the election result was, because different meters are chosen to measure the height of the tower built by the voters, without asking whether it is resistant. That standard, unique and uniquely accepted, simply does not exist, because no party was really interested or convenient to establish it, also preferring each to adopt their own, perhaps even extendable or retractable at will and, in any case, totally non-standard in terms of unit of measurement.

This is exactly the current situation and this is the only way to explain the incredibly rapid filling and emptying of the buckets or the excessively growing and collapsing to the ground of certain towers built in haste, to impose the primacy of the altitudes reached rather than that of their robustness . Probably missing a method, a real strategy, a long-term project that can ensure our country some very welcome period of economic and social stability that could be represented on the screen of an oscilloscope as a sinusoidal curve made, yes, of ups and downs, but generally devoid of sudden peaks and anomalies that are never good for society or health. If we ideally connect our political situation to that instrument, a “ sawtooth ” curve would emerge , so inhomogeneous and disharmonious as to be dangerously unpredictable. Also in this case, as for the common meter to be used to measure the height of the towers, in order to have the correct graphic representation of the political situation through an oscillogram one should start from a common "time base ", that is the conventionally established length of the abscissa axis, because adopting unequal ones (and it is convenient for some) it would happen as can be verified experimentally by taking an intricate tangle of electric wires and pulling the ends a little, so that the curves appear more gentle and regular and some of the knots melt. We know that, at least in general, lengthening the times softens the curves of any track, but who decides how long they should be stretched and within what limits they should remain? Were the five-year plans of Soviet memory an answer? It does not seem to have been a good social policy.

Perhaps there was enough time to evaluate ex post the results of any government's political action. The useful time seems to be less and less and emergencies are becoming the norm, so we are forced to run. But it will not happen that certain thin plastic containers are filling up by the buckets which will then overflow (votes lost) or even overturn (parties that rise and collapse in a few years), with the further need to try to spoonful of water ended up on the ground to transfer it to other more stable containers? And do the good and robust barrels of the past still exist? Are we perhaps constructing buildings with improvised techniques and materials that are completely inconsistent with each other (as in certain parties that pride themselves on being "transversal")? To you the answer.

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