Yesterday, all of a sudden, I realised that I have lost a habit, a bad habit. The TV was turned off. How long has it been turned off? Weeks, months. It has become an ornament, an antique like the radios with valves that are found in the summer markets. I remember that once upon a time, while I was distracted, I turned it on. I did a bit of zapping. The TV stayed there, implacable, with no one watching it, or listening to it, like a crazy old person that doesn’t have the courage to stay quiet. It seemed innocuous with its mikebongiorni and pippibaudi. But it wasn’t. It had got into our homes. Slowly it became the master of our consumption, of our dreams, of our children, of Parliament. A washing machine that has made the Italian washing grey, black, then just dirty. A bleaching of our consciences in reverse. At the start there was some filter to stop the mind getting intoxicated. But for years there has no longer been any protection, just the freedom of lies. We know all this, just as the one who smokes knows that it does no good.
To go from the awareness of a problem to the change is more difficult. I have changed. Has it also happened to you? “If I don’t look at you, you don’t exist.” And I no longer watch it and it no longer exists.
I get the information, I have fun and get angry on the Internet. The evening is much better with the videos that you send me as comments on the post. Not all of them are on the right topic, but nearly all of them are worth the entrance fee. Nunvereggaecchiu, wpapillo, byoblu, trarcomavaglio, quimilanolibera, danielemartinelli and so many others provide Internet information. There are people who are paid to lie on TV and young people who are providing information on the Internet at the own expense. Today I want to share with you an achievement. The videos produced by this blog, published with the name "StaffGrillo" and loaded onto YouTube have had more than 50 million viewings. 400 films, interviews, presentations or “montage” created for the Internet in less than 3 years. The YouTube channel was opened on 3 October 2006. The one who decides on the information on the Internet is the navigator, not the TV News programme makers.
”TV News”. Do you realise the effect that this term now has? It reminds you of the News at the cinema done by Istituto Luce”. The TV News directors are like the little dogs in the back of the 1960s cars that bobbed their heads up and down.
I want to say “thank you” to all the bloggers, to all the navigators. Even to those who are a pain in the neck and to the trolls that have activated the immune defences of the blog and made it even stronger. Thank you for the comments that often make the post worthwhile. Thank you for your videos that are informative, and are even putting at risk (even physical) those that create them. Information is going to power. They don’t know that yet. They believe that propaganda will always remain in power. They don’t enter the Internet. When they have a look, like Riotta or Mastella, they are marked for life. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.