“NOMEN OMEN”, THE POWER THAT REVEALS HIS MESCHINI INTENT. AN ITALIAN SPECIALTY (by Marco Minossi)

The oppressive power to be imposed on the Italians has historically always been a great attraction, especially for the Northern European rulers, and. . . for the Italian ones themselves!

This is the reason why, despite our great history from Rome onwards, including Humanism and the Renaissance, we speak of Italy united only since 1861, with all the sufferings and contradictions of substance that we still know well today.

Northern European hegemony can be endorsed by a plurality of examples, but in our opinion three are the emblematic ones.

The first, the proclamation of Charlemagne as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, which in fact reproduced the capital-symbol Rome in Aachen (Germany, today's Aachen, with the Palatine Chapel) after 800 AD The second, the "disappearance ”By Raffaello Sanzio and his patron Agostino Chigi (the banker who held the Vatican finances) a week apart from each other in April 1520, followed by that of the client Leone X a few months later. These died, probably of Northern European Lutheran origin, not so much as a result of the aversion towards the Church of Rome, but because of the fact that in 1515 the Pontiff had entrusted to Raffaello Sanzio the office of Superintendent for the reclassification and protection of ruins of ancient Rome, a much larger project than the simple archaeological element, financed by the Sienese banker Chigi, such as the frescoes in the Vatican Rooms.

As if to say: attention, quantities in progress in Italy, danger!

Whenever Italy decides to reorganize itself in the name of its own classicism, Northern Europe intervenes. Under Fascism, the third explanatory case, this took place first in the form of an alliance, and then of destruction by Germany again. And then, nowadays, there is the formula of the European Union, which prevents at the root any attempt to recover the Italian splendor, even in the absence for decades of any semblance of (threatening) creator of such a rebirth.

Taking power in Italy is, as we know, relatively simple, as Indro Montanelli explained well, with the effective metaphor according to which servitude, for Italians, is much more a temptation to give in than an oppression to rebel against. .

Almost always mediocre individuals have succeeded, and marginalized from the world of work.

Power often has great limits in its communication strategies, which reveal its mocking intentions towards the people. He is not content with dominating, he also wants to mock.

In the contents, we can for example recall the economic situation of Italy which was entrusted (with an Italian-European coup) to Mario Monti. For months we were made to understand that four billion of a perverse tax called the IMU would solve the financial problems; perverse yes, because this tax has the double characteristic of being heavy for the average family, and practically irrelevant for the state coffers (in that year 2012 it was completely burned for the rescue of Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which is knocking new money even now.We don't even talk about Alitalia).

Or, we are reminded of the “problem” of the small bags of the supermarket's vegetable counter, charged on the receipt at two cents each. Open heaven yes in popular hearing, but great distraction towards concomitant harassments much more consistent and decisive.

In these hours we have instead the case of INPS bonuses received by parliamentarians, public administrators, politicians and politicians, only because a government law – whose prime minister is also a lawyer – allows it in full order. Mass distraction, propaganda to vote "yes" to the reduction of the number of parliamentarians in the next referendum, and reinforced motivation to make it bureaucratically impossible for the popular use of future aid, those that should theoretically arrive next year with the Recovery.

What do the three apparent naivety mentioned above mean, to cite just three examples that can be easily remembered by anyone? They clearly indicate that behind the apparent stupidity of certain issues, under the artificial stupidity of certain decisions, there is instead a careful strategy to further penalize citizens.

And then, after the contents, there is the form, there are the names, and here the power really enjoys taking the people for a ride.

Below, a very partial list of definitions that citizens' addiction to abuses of power have made current and serious: Salva-Italia, Dignità Decree, Cura-Italia, Reception. The only plausible name could be Growth Decree (unless you then take an Istat table in your hand, at which point it becomes the one that makes the most laugh of all).

And then again, where for the Constitution the central role in our Democracy should be that of Parliament, we have learned to appreciate the nice and saving term "Government of the President".

Continuing, here are some denominations of electoral laws in the country in which, when it would be necessary democratically, you never vote, and if you vote, the results are distorted in forming governments, or in dismissing them: Mattarellum, Porcellum, Italicum, Rosatellum.

In our opinion, one of the methods to wake the people is simply to urge them to open their ears and eyes to what they hear and what they read: sometimes that is enough, reasoning about the contents is superfluous.

PS: The venerated Raffaello Sanzio, whom we are celebrating in the half millennium since his death, will forgive the brutality of my single participation in the tribute. I also trust that you appreciate it.

Marco Minossi

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