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A reflection

(… very fast, less than a tweet, but with two words to contextualize it. Only two, so much is useless: those who want to understand have already understood, and those who do not want to understand … we understand each other !

A few days ago Claudio, using Manzoni, clarified an important point live:

Sorry it must be reiterated, but I thank Claudio for doing it: the change must start from ourselves, there will be no cathartic and palingenetic event, there will be no Seventh cavalry that comes to free us – so much so that the result of the Liberation par excellence it is what we are in, which obviously does not mean that at the time Liberation was no better than its alternative, but it does not mean that over time its result is proving to be at least perfectible!

I also thank Claudio for quoting a tweet of mine which illustrates with a concrete example what it means to "start from ourselves":


There is a further facet of this reasoning that deserves to be highlighted: I believe the friend who wants to free the media belongs to that boundless and in some cases qualified group of characters who see in the dismissal and contextual replacement of "enemies of the people "the only possible tactic to achieve our strategic objectives. "As long as that is there we will not get anything done …", etc. As you know, I have a whole arsenal of dialectical magic wands, which allow me, in the various parterres on which I am called to express myself, to make useless or annoying interlocutors disappear. To make those who disappear "That you have to remove" the magic wand is "Sure, dear, you're right: and who would you put in his place?"

Inevitably, inexorably, infallibly, the interlocutor dissolves in a cloud of CH4.

The ban lists have never worked very well, the spoil system is not a magic bullet (which does not mean that it should not be applied), against the can of tuna the can opener is not enough, because although the results are not the same, the The Italian state machine is as complicated as a Swiss watch, one of the mechanical ones. If a wheel is on your balls, so that the hands continue to turn, it is advisable that before removing it you have the spare one at hand. No one – I repeat, no one – of us (for once I'll put myself in it too) has an idea of ​​the number of wheels of which the state machine consists.

But to observe the mechanism and get an idea, it is essential to open the case, that is, to enter the majority.

Think about this.

I tried to make it clear yesterday in my speech which I suggest you listen carefully:

Strangely, the nice bricks and all the nostalgic trollame of the Twenties, indeed, of the two Twenties, did not come to comment: they preferred not to bring traffic, for the simple reason that these words, in their sincerity and concreteness, dismantle their narration of the "betrayal" and clarify the meaning of having joined the majority (for the benefit of some pompous grillofascist turkey who wanders about the minor debate, I repeat that if the government and the majority are two different words, there will be a reason …). And now, having provided this element of context, I proceed to illustrate the reflection that you will not understand – because even those who think they have understood it will not understand it, or at least not immediately … )

Brexit was preached by Farage, and practiced by Johnson.

I'll tell you another way: Brexit was preached by UKIP, but practiced by the Conservative Party.

(… now you decide what you want … )

(… I add a postliminal reflection: sorry shit! If you do not understand or do not want to understand something so simple I fear that the fault is yours, not mine (and in some cases it is an unforgivable fault). The freedom to bray is guaranteed and you know – indeed, you don't know! – how much I spend to defend her in the Love Commission and elsewhere. After, perhaps, a simple "sorry, we didn't understand …" will not be enough. I'm not rancorous: it's just that I need useful people, not useless people. I thank those who mark themselves as such – that is, as useless: it is really true that social networks are the most efficient HR tool that any recruiter has, so much so that those who are looking for work and are not stupid at first what closes his accounts! – but obviously it's not like he can waste a lot of time keeping up with him … )


This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2022/03/una-riflessione.html on Sun, 27 Mar 2022 10:54:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.