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#goofy13: the program (part one)

(… your suggestions in the previous post, both those of those who understood and those of those who didn't, were very useful to me. I brought them into a constructive meeting with the partners of the new site, who surely think I'm crazy , but they probably find it stimulating to work with a madman. I'm sure a good job will come out… )

(… in the corridors of a/symmetrie you can breathe the murky and unhealthy air of a Byzantine court. The despot has bet: if the public does not reach a certain threshold, next year the courtiers will be deported to the most remote recesses of the fiefdom. The fact is that if that threshold is reached – and alas I fear we are – the despot will move it upwards, to deport the courtiers and all of you to the most inaccessible and hidden recesses of his fiefdom. Of course, the Pizzi Mountains are an austere environment. Almost everyone who manages to get there will appreciate them…

(… the branch of Val Pescara that goes up between Morrone and Majella presents surprising landscapes: what from the motorway is perceived as a gentle climb towards the San Leonardo Pass is a system of harsh, deeply incised canyons, which host the hermitages of Celestino, and they enter the western side of the Majella, towards the Orfento valley. They are here somewhere, with little field.

The short answer is: no!

But it is a somewhat pleonastic answer. It is of no use to you, because if you are here it is because you have already given it to yourself; it is of no use to others, in particular those who are very worried about what they risk having in the deltoid and little or nothing worried about what they already have in the rectum. You get used to everything, especially when you think it will happen to others.

The interest therefore lies in the question: can Europe do it?

This is the question we ask ourselves ten years after we asked ourselves if Italy could do it. The answer to this last question was in some ways affirmative: the wrong path in our opinion (wage deflation) led us to the right place according to others (an asset in foreign accounts), and since what matters is other people's metrics, yes, we can say that Italy has done it, even if not many Italians have done it. But we had clarified this before, and we have a clear conscience.

We had also made it clear that Italy's problems, as much as we cared about them, were perhaps the least relevant. Much more disturbing was the unsustainability of the German development model, which in revealing itself ("Germany will saw off the branch on which it is sitting") would have made the prospects of a conflict à l'ancienne current and concrete.

Paraphrasing Flaiano: “I talked about war in 2012, now the goalkeepers are talking about it too!”

However, we will not open the proceedings with a sloppy exegete of the later period, but with a refined analyst of the earlier period, Carlo Galli, who will talk to us about "Europe between peace and war: new dynamics and new perspectives". I'm starting to think that we rely a little too much on the fact that today a warlike conflict cannot be fought on our soil because on the one hand "Europe gives us Peace", and on the other if we engaged in a real conflict there would be an escalation nuclear power and therefore “we would all die”. The season of stings should have made us understand at least one thing: that the only death that our so-called fellow humans care about is their own, and that to avoid it a bet that involves the death of everyone else can ultimately also have its own rationality. So I have never believed that the atomic bomb, more than the crossbow or the chipped flint, could forever exert a significant deterrent, and moreover those who are not convinced can buzz Kiev. But we'll hear what Carlo thinks.

I defend my position, which is that of humility. I failed, and there are very few of you here who have understood. However, there are always more of you than the elites understand, particularly the German ones, because essentially no one there has understood what is happening. Lucio Baccaro, a new entry, will explain it to us, talking to us about "The German elites and the crisis of the export-led growth model". The Germans have not yet understood that if you export goods you cause problems: this emerges from an in-depth analysis of their conceptual maps, of their Weltanschauung, and this is confirmed more and more by the news every day. The decoupling from those pathological obtuses and their suicidal political directions (all the green is, and does not want to die without killing us first) will appear even more necessary to you after listening to Lucio.

But why does Lue make certain blunders? Why does he take, acclaiming them as epochal turning points, those which clearly appear to us able-bodied people as obvious dead ends? What has caused this failure (if it really is such) of strategic thinking in Europe? Vladimiro Giacché will try to answer by talking to us about "The end of strategy". My thesis, you know, is Lamarckian: European elites do not need to develop an organ that the environmental context, that of "autopilot", prevents them from using. I don't know what Vladimiro thinks, but I think not very differently.

Nonetheless, as Capezzone often reminds us, the center-right has "oi strategoi", the theorists of the right that the left likes, and which is simply the one that loses! We, not aspiring to that much, will be satisfied with someone who made war, or rather, as they say today, peace, as a profession, General Boni. Gianandrea Gaiani will ask him and a member of Copasir to reflect on "The challenge of European defense". You will then find the Copasir member in the group, but be careful: he has come to file you…

“How we got here: anatomy of a crisis of civilization” will be explained to us by Nello Preterossi at the end of the first evening. Nello is in some ways nostalgic for the yellow-green experience, he considers the defeat of that experience as our defeat, and he has already come to tell us this in 2021. I don't dispute that a defeat is a defeat: however, I would like to reflect on what that defeat has to teach us. In my opinion quite a bit: for example, that a gatekeeper is a gatekeeper; that power is nothing without control (the power deriving from strong electoral legitimacy is nothing without the technical ability to exercise it); but also that when the only, or at least the most quantitatively relevant, revolutionary political energy is the fascism of the most vulgar anti-politics, we are already (i.e. we were already) in a crisis of civilization, and it would be (i.e. it was) naive to think that similar revolutions lead elsewhere than to the most leaden restoration. But it will be useful and regenerating to discuss this. You know what I think, and I don't want to ruin your evening.

The small groups will follow, this year à l'ancienne. Sorry for those who, not assisted by physical prowess, will remain excluded from the circle of sharing.

(… we'll talk about what happens on Sunday tomorrow. Now I'll try to sleep: if I wake up early I'll do the two hours of walking that I need so much, otherwise I'll add two hours of sleep that I need no less. How will it end? I want to see it and I will see it, because I deserve it as much as you do… )

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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/2024/09/goofy13-il-programma-parte-prima.html on Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:54:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.