Go ahead, Biden, it makes me laugh
If you can, collect a good part of the opening titles of the big, but also small, Italian newspapers of the day following Trump's farewell. You cut them out, make a nice collage out of them and hang them on a notice board in plain sight to look at in the morning, before going to work. It's called good mood therapy. Laughing is good for health, relaxes the nerves, releases endorphins. And I assure you that many of those titles, not to mention the accompanying editorials, not only make you laugh, but release. To roll right on the floor.
It is the cathartic effect of involuntary comedy, the best, the most effective. When, that is, someone – all composed and understood in his pompous seriousness – instead makes himself ridiculous. Here, of all this, the post-Trump press review is a majestic overview: the announcement of the Dawn of Democracy of a New America of Rights after the Expulsion of the Great Dictator. Now, this isn't about being republican fanatics or crazy sovereigns. Just the common sense of any reader, not hypnotized by the mainstream, is enough.
It is enough to understand that Trump, with all his undeniable flaws, is not a monster. Yet he is treated as such, he has always been portrayed as such and now that he is leaving, more than ever, he gets the ridicule previously given only to a Ceausescu or a Saddam Hussein. With Trump, a fallacy of the modern era that goes by the name of " reductio ad Hitlerum " was dusted off. It consists in the a priori disqualification, and regardless, of a character as compared, for perfidy and misdeeds, to Hitler. Is there anything worse than Hilter? No. And is there a worse fallacy than this? No. It's a cheap rhetorical trick that, among other things, used in cases like Trump's causes the aforementioned short-circuit of involuntary laughter.
The lyrical tones of our newspapers and flagship tigì, due to Biden's arrival, risk making us twist our jaws precisely because they are enormously disproportionate to the reality of things. And so they look so much like the salamelecchi, or ass-licking if you prefer, that the fascist press reserved for the Duce, the Chinese press for Mao and that of every dictatorship for its reference dictator. And the laughter is squared, indeed cubed, because Trump was perhaps the antidote to the only dictatorship, in disguise, of the current era: that of large stateless and anti-national financial capitals, that of the corporations of media manipulation, those of the Silicon Valley capataz of social censorship (from which the Monster was, not surprisingly, censored).
The inextricable and sprawling interweaving of these matrices of globalism literally shapes the reality that people "must" see, pollutes and coordinates their ideas, elicits and conditions their "sentiment". And someone like Trump, focused at home on the interests of his country and abroad on promoting peace agreements (rather than the "pacifist" and "democratic" bombs of his predecessors) is a lot of annoyance. Everything else comes down “for them branches”, as the Supreme Poet said: including the gooey and disgusting flattery of our intelligentsia and our (tele) magazines. These are only the offshoots of a formidable propaganda and dissent suppression machine. They have the intentional task of selling us a phony version of the story. And luckily even that, involuntary, to make us laugh out loud.
Francesco Carraro
www.francescocarraro.com
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