THE TERROR WORKS IN THE SHORT PERIOD. THEN THE PEOPLE GET TIRED AND REJECT NORMALITY (by Giuseppe Palma)
10 months. This is how long the dictatorship of the Jacobins in France lasted during the French Revolution. From September 1793, when they installed their men in the Committee of Public Health, at the end of July 1794, with the rebellion of the National Convention (the Parliament) against the government of Terror .
Yet, only three and a half months earlier (April 1794), that same Convention sent to die – at the threat of the government of Robespierre and Saint-Just – the Man symbol of the Revolution, the Man "of August 10", Georges Jacques Danton .
A popular consensus, that of the Terror , which after Danton's death seemed never to fade. If the people had remained indifferent to the death of their greatest tribune, the thunder of the Revolution, it meant that Robespierre could sleep soundly. The people were with him and with the Terror.
In appearance . In fact, the desire for a return to normality was harboring in the collective soul.
The people of Paris, the French in general, and especially the men of the National Convention, began to no longer bear to live with the daily fear that, sooner or later, any of them could end up before the revolutionary tribunal, accused of the worst invectives, then under the cleaver of the guillotine.
The state of permanent terror , justified by the fact that the government had to save the Revolution and the Republic at all costs from enemies now built at a table, led to the fall of the Jacobins and the death of Robespierre, Saint-Just and many others, guillotined in Paris July 28, 1794.
The state of agitation of the soul, especially if daily, leads to the need for normality . The human being cannot live under constant blackmail, sooner or later he rebels and goes in search of normality.
Pulling history by the jacket is always wrong, but I see some traits of that permanent state of terror even now. The perennial state of emergency , the fear of sixty million people who – at any moment – could be locked up at home with a simple administrative act, without any more work or income, is a situation at times similar to the Jacobin terror established by the public health committee.
All this, sooner or later, will lead to exasperation and the desire for normality . Yesterday like today.
There is not a day that passes that the government, the TV, the technical-scientific committee or the famous journalists do not engage in psychological terrorism . Infections are increasing! A new lockdown is coming! Schools will never reopen! Your children will be placed in the Covid closet !! Elections will be postponed! We will close everything again!
It is a pity, however, that they forget to mention that there are almost no more deaths (about ten) and that there are just about seventy hospitalized patients in intensive care – all over Italy. In short, the emergency no longer exists despite the increase in infections. But they increase because the tampons increase, nobody says that.
The message that passes every day is the fear of tomorrow, the absence of hope for the future . In times of war, the civilian population lives on hope: the war will end and we will return to normal. And when the war is over, normalcy is in fact restored.
Not today, that hope is suffocated by constant terror, by the permanent fear that overnight “house arrest” will be imposed again and millions of commercial, professional and productive activities closed.
Many entrepreneurs, from the smallest to the largest, have no longer reopened not only due to the insane rules imposed by the protocols of the technical-scientific committee, but above all because they do not see hope in the future: if in October they lock us up again, for what reason should i invest my money in the face of no certainty in tomorrow? This is the reasoning – more than understandable – of millions of VAT numbers.
Where terror and fear reign, hope dies . Moreover, with the renewal of smart-working until the end of the year, the government has declared war on millions of bars, restaurants, shops and other commercial activities. We live for the day , nothing is known if schools will reopen or if we will be able to continue working without the threat of a new lockdown . Living on the razor's edge with no hope for tomorrow, this is the only certainty.
Every day is terror, fear for the future . In the space of one afternoon, the government accused the boys of being irresponsible and closed the discos. Tomorrow maybe the bars, hotels or professional studios in a month, then who knows. Fear is around the corner, lurking.
But the Terror has short legs . The people get tired of fear and seek a return to normalcy . Soon sixty million people will throw themselves into the arms of anyone who promises them hope , of anyone who envisions a concrete return to normality . And the "terrorists" will be confined to the opposition for decades.
It is not true that saying that says: “ whoever lives in hope dies in despair ”. In reality, those who do not see hope die, those who live with constant terror in their eyes and minds.
Conte is not Robespierre, he has neither the culture nor the skills. But he is making the same mistakes as the green devil. From the Jacobin Terror to the permanent therapeutic state, fear reigns supreme , yesterday as today. In the end the people will get tired of the Giallorossi and will ask – strongly – for a return to normalcy . History always remains the greatest teacher of life.
Giuseppe PALMA
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