The void
David Wojnarowicz, Buffalo Falling
Nature is averse to the void. Italy is attracted to it. Politics, the economy, society are voids that we insist on filling with nothingness. Our solution for the void that is besieging us, that devours the everyday spaces, is always another void. Following one sham, an equal sham always follows. For each problem, no remedy. We are navigating by sight. But we can no longer see the horizon nor the Pole Star. We are in default, with a crippled Tremorti, the umpteenth Minister unaware of favours received. A government of shady characters and film extras led by an old corruptor and in command of the nation. Mayors and cabinet members are endlessly ending up in prison. Arrests have become routine. The Opposition is a half way house between a larva and a parasite. An “empty” to be thrown away.
Two concomitant events are waiting for us. The first is Italy’s self-evident financial collapse. The second is the collapse of the current parties. By the end of the year we should sell 200 billion in State bonds at interest rates that are getting ever higher. If we don’t manage to do that, we’ll have broken the bank. It won’t be a Greek tragedy, but an Italian-style comedy. The sudden search for guilty ones by the very people who are guilty. The high and detailed warnings from Napolitano. The whining from the Confindustria. The appeals to Europe from the main editorialists and at the end of the tunnel, the white flag, perhaps our true national symbol. The ones who are mainly responsible, the triad, PDL, PDminusL and Lega will collapse as happened in 1992 for the DC and the PSI. Many of their key figures will be hosted by the prisons of the land; others will take refuge abroad emulating Bottino Craxi.
You can feel a new Tangentopoli in the air. The arrests in Turin, Parma and Voghera can be consolidated in a popular revolt. Observing the tranquil people of Parma calling for the head of their mayor and using their bare fists to tackle the riot police, should make a shiver go down many people’s backs. Italy can transform itself into an enormous area of White Bloc. Regular citizens who insist on honesty from the administrators and from the institutions at any cost, with any personal risk.
The political void of the 1990s was filled with “Trasformismo”. The DC divided itself into two: DC of the Left and DC of the Right and it survived happily. The PSI signed up under the banner of Forza Italia. The PCI limited itself to changing its name. Today “Trasformismo” is no longer possible. In politics, voids are often filled by the man of Providence. By a scoundrel who claims thaumaturgical powers. The Italian has always been fascinated by them, like a rabbit by a serpent with little bells. As soon as possible, the President of the Republic must charge a man extraneous to the parties to form a new government. He must do this with the only objective of avoiding the worst, otherwise we are going to have another 8 September. But perhaps even this will not be enough. They will never give up (but is it in their interests?). Neither will we.
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The caste and bankers led Italians down the garden path and now the Prime Minister is asking them to "unite" and legislate into law the so- called "manovra economica," (or how to make the suckers pay for the national debt). Economists, market specialists, editorialists are scribbling away explaining why the country finds itself on the precipice of economic ruin and refer Italians to a high public debt, a tottering government, an "austerity budget" (austerity for whom?) unable to meet the requirements needed to neutralize the debt and rampant corruption starting at the very top of the government. I don't want ask where the politicians and their friends were, three or four years ago, when Grillo, from his blog, screamed at top of his lungs that the debt was a run-away train taking Italians over the edge. But the leaders aboard laughed at him. And now that they're at the edge of the economic precipice, they're panicking. The funny thing is that the culprits that put the country in this situation in the first place, want to continue to govern. It's like they're saying, "OK, now that we've taken you to the edge of a very dangerous void who are you going to call to rescue you? Us, of course. But of course, who else are you going to call? How about Movimento 5 Stelle?
Posted by: Louis Pacella | July 12, 2011 05:37 PM
The caste and bankers led Italians down the garden path and now the Prime Minister is asking them to "unite" and legislate into law the so- called "manovra economica," (or how to make the suckers pay for the national debt). Economists, market specialists, editorialists are scribbling away explaining why the country finds itself on the precipice of economic ruin and refer Italians to a high public debt, a tottering government, an "austerity budget" (austerity for whom?) unable to meet the requirements needed to neutralize the debt and rampant corruption starting at the very top of the government. I don't want ask where the politicians and their friends were, three or four years ago, when Grillo, from his blog, screamed at top of his lungs that the debt was a run-away train taking Italians over the edge. But the leaders aboard laughed at him. And now that they're at the edge of the economic precipice, they're panicking. The funny thing is that the culprits that put the country in this situation in the first place, want to continue to govern. It's like they're saying, "OK, now that we've taken you to the edge of a very dangerous void who are you going to call to rescue you? Us, of course. But of course, who else are you going to call?
Posted by: Louis Pacella | July 12, 2011 04:55 PM
Anybody following the saga in England of Rupert Murdoch, thge media baron and the demise of the best selling newspaper the News of the World will know that we live in an age of corruption and hype. Democracy is a joke as powerful business interests continue to dominate our lives through the financial markets.
They call on the people to accept austerity measures while they have trusts and offshore bank accounts in tax havens to avoid paying tax. That is how they become rich,not because of their enrepreneneural talent. The indigados in Spain and Greece have cottoned on in the same way that the Arab revolts said enough is enough and rid their countries of corrupt dictators.
The world is going through a profound change and the sooner the Berlusconis and other corrupt leaders realise that the game is up the sooner we can begin to change society.
Posted by: peterfieldman | July 10, 2011 10:01 PM