Consultations, we are back to the First Republic (but our leaders don't want to understand it)
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Consultations, we are back to the First Republic (but our leaders don't want to understand it)
With this absurd electoral law the leaders, from Salvini to Di Maio, to Berlusconi himself, raised in the school of the majority, they risk not being able to face the new Government operation. But everyone is hoping for the soft and cautious Mattarella. (Of Alessandro Giuli, LAWS)
Luigi Bisignani at Il Tempo: The Casinos of the former DC
A hilarious article by Luigi Bisignani on Il Tempo dell'altroieri
Of Luigi Bisignani
Pierferdi also messes up with Talleyrand. He compares Andreotti to the great French "chameleon".
And then the Divo Giulio only has to visit him in a dream to dot the i's…
Dear director, excited Easter awakening for Pier Ferdinando Casini, one of the "child prodigies" of the DC, from beyond 35 years in Parliament between political betrayals and cover stories. In a nocturnal nightmare, he dreamed of Andreotti reprimanding him for an imprudent interview with Corriere della Sera, in which Casini compared him to Charles – Maurice de Talleyrand -Pèrigord, French nobleman who had begun his career as a bishop, then he threw away his cloak and became one of the most cynical politicians, corrupt and clever people of his time, capable of anything to survive. Talleyrand, lived between the end of 1700 and the beginning of the 19th century, and has always been considered the symbol of political chameleonism – it was no coincidence that contemporaries called it "girouette", weathervane – it will be performed in the next few days at the theater by Pierferdi himself.
Still rubbing his eyes, Casini tries to remember Andreotti's reprimand, than wearing his usual blue double-breasted sweater, he had just finished a game of burraco with Cossiga, who after all has always been looking for someone to play poker. Read More
We truly are the country of the ignorant
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We truly are the country of the ignorant?
The rankings, merciless, they paint us as one of the most ignorant countries in Europe. And we ourselves have become accustomed to defining ourselves as such. But Italy is truly the country of the ignorant. Antonio Sgobba's essay "?. The paradox of ignorance from Socrates to Google” tries to shed some light (or to complicate our ideas) (LAWS)
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Linkiesta | Longread is a collaboration between Linkiesta and Il Saggiatore, historic Milanese publishing house, of which every Sunday we will publish an extract from a book, not necessarily an editorial novelty, which in some way is linked to the current events of the seven days that have just passed.
The construction site of unique thought
Of Marco Della Luna
Source: Marco Della Luna
One of the most conspicuous phenomena of our time is the gigantic and industrious construction site of globalized single thought - with its clients, architects, guardian priests - which serves to make social behavior predictable and directional in the super-accelerated and conflictual world in which we live.
Global financial capitalism, maneuvering the cultural industry (including entertainment), which it largely possesses, he created an orthodoxy, an obligatory thought, mainstream, scientifically correct, how delegitimizing, isolates or criminalizes – that is, practically excommunicates, it expels from conformed society - not only thinking divergent from orthodoxy, but the same free scientific investigation, economic and historiographical, regarding some fundamental things to direct the course of the transformation of society according to his plans. These things are: certain historical events, certain aspects of the economy, European integration, the euro, immigration, l’islam, ethnic diversity, sexual identity; e, lastly, the alleged efficacy and harmlessness of mandatory vaccines.
Protected beliefs have been built on these things, protected beliefs, in the sense that dissent with respect to orthodoxy, and the same free scientific and historical investigation of those beliefs, they are sanctioned with moral delegitimization, career boycott, administrative discrimination, the exclusion of the media, from teaching, from publishing, when not even criminal consequences. Facts that conflict with orthodoxy are withheld from public opinion, especially in key fields for the orientation of collective thought and sensitivity, of the general conception of reality, of political consensus, of legislation and jurisdiction. Read More
La frustrazione dell'uomo binario
Of Roberto Pechioli
Source: Heretically
Reading Vittorino Andreoli is always a stimulating intellectual adventure. The Veronese psychiatrist, with that mad scientist look of his, i radi capelli lunghi, disheveled, similar to directionless electrical wires, it is an important witness of our time. His long clinical experience, combined with a surprising humanity and the acute sensitivity of a scholar make us think. A recent speech of his focused on contemporary man who no longer thinks and is a slave to frustration. Two conditions that Andreoli considers complementary, linked by an invisible yet persistent plot.
Postmodern man lives in imitation of the machine, his reasoning becomes binary, immediate stimulus and response, yes or no, right or wrong. Everything is cooked and eaten immediately, the waiting time evaporates, which is also that of hope, of the dream, of the project. Inadequate by nature to support the comparison with the technical apparatus, vive di scosse, continuously clicks on itself, loses the joy of the goal achieved, the satisfaction of those who linger to contemplate the outcome, savor the effects of acting after having imagined and constructed them. He also loses the ability to accept defeats or simple inadequacies, fruit of self-acceptance, of the condition of an imperfect creature, to the point of attributing them to a sort of malfunction of the personal machine.
Frustration spreads, that is, profound unprocessed disappointment, in each of its three meanings, that is, the feeling of those who consider their actions in vain; the psychic tension determined by the unfulfillment of a desire; the effect of the failure to satisfy a drive. Read More
The future is now
Of Paul De Gregory
Source: Paul De Gregory
Any reasoning about the next government must take into account a future scenario in which the two parties that won the elections, Movement 5 stars and League, they will tend to absorb the electorate of declining parties, Pd and Forza Italia respectively, and therefore alliances, Lega-Forza Italia type, and 5star Movement-Pd, they would be fatal to the novelty of a political renewal and a failure for the realization of the program promised to the voters.
Movement 5 stars and League, successful and expanding, with the strategic horizon of arriving at a bipartisan system, fishing in the electoral basins of PD and Forza Italia, they currently have the same interests and could agree on a few points, type of abolition of the Fornero law, citizen's income, and above all on a new electoral law that guarantees governability. And thus go to new elections (perhaps coinciding with next year's European elections) from opponents, but loyal and true to their word, without entanglements with the old politics.
Many of the people I talk to are excited about such a scenario, with only two parties, with no more quarrelsome coalitions than, as happened between Berlusconi and Salvini, they already clash 5 minutes after the elections to elect the presidents of the Chambers. Read More
The sensational chastity belt hoax
Report BastaBugie editorial teamIt is not true that the Crusaders forced their wives to wear them… the first date back to 1800 (such as erotic games or to avoid sexual violence)
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The use of so-called chastity belts, flexible metal bands capable of covering the genitals and then closed with padlocks, it dates back to the times of the Crusades, when the knights leaving for the Holy Sepulcher wanted to ensure the fidelity of their wives during their absence. The belt is nothing more than a historical fake. Just looking at them is enough to understand how they can be a source of wounds and infections and have locks that are relatively easy to open.
As Focus notes (August 2014) first of all, there is a hygiene problem: even if the classic belt has small openings for the fulfillment of physiological needs, wounds, infections and consequently the death of the wearer would have occurred very quickly.
Furthermore, it is plausible that before leaving the knights mated with their wives, perhaps with the hope of finding a child upon their return. It is evident that the presence of an iron belt would have prevented childbirth. Not to mention the simplest objection: any medieval lock could be opened by a blacksmith in seconds.
THEOLOGICAL PURITY
Beyond these logical inconsistencies, there is the fact that there are no authentic belts dating back to the Middle Ages. The idea of sexual abstinence is certainly very ancient, as is the Latin term cingulum castitatis (translatable precisely as chastity belt) compare, starting from the 6th century, in some texts by Pope Gregory the Great, Alcuin of York, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, up to Giovanni Boccaccio. But in all these cases it is intended as a symbol of theological purity, certainly not as an object of erotic dissuasion. Read More
“Nor exploited, nor big babies". Francesco Cancellato's new book comes out today, director of Linkiesta.it
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“Neither exploited nor big babies. Resolve the generational issue to save Italy"
The new book by Francesco Cancellato, director of Linkiesta.it, in bookstores from today
All the paradoxes of the generational question in Italy: training, Work, welfare and gender gap in the age of millenials
In a global context in which everything seems to be turning in favor of young people - technological advancement, the predisposition to flexibility, the challenge of new skills for an industry 4.0 – Italy appears to be an anomaly. The political choices made in different fields, from education to labor reforms, from policies to reduce the gender gap to welfare, they did not favor the stabilization of young Italians in the market, indeed they have increased the distance between school and work, increasing the mistrust towards training to such an extent that it has given rise to the sad phenomenon of NEETs. The essay invites us to take on the holistic character of the generational question which is the nerve center around which many, if not all, the Italian problems. Solving it is a categorical and moral imperative under penalty of the collapse of the entire welfare system and the serious risk that generations to come will live, for the first time, a life worse than that of their fathers.
The author: Francesco Cancellato, he is the director of the online newspaper Linkiesta.it and a commentator on numerous television and radio programmes. For Egea – UBE he is the author of Fattore G: because the Germans are right (2016).
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All the paradoxes of the generational question in Italy: training, Work, welfare and gender gap in the age of millenials
In a global context in which everything seems to be turning in favor of young people - technological advancement, the predisposition to flexibility, the challenge of new skills for an industry 4.0 – Italy appears to be an anomaly. The political choices made in different fields, from education to labor reforms, from policies to reduce the gender gap to welfare, they did not favor the stabilization of young Italians in the market, indeed they have increased the distance between school and work, increasing the mistrust towards training to such an extent that it has given rise to the sad phenomenon of NEETs. The essay invites us to take on the holistic character of the generational question which is the nerve center around which many, if not all, the Italian problems. Solving it is a categorical and moral imperative under penalty of the collapse of the entire welfare system and the serious risk that generations to come will live, for the first time, a life worse than that of their fathers.
The author: Francesco Cancellato, he is the director of the online newspaper Linkiesta.it and a commentator on numerous television and radio programmes. For Egea – UBE he is the author of Fattore G: because the Germans are right (2016).
EGEA € 16,00 – pages. 144
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Salvini's real goal is to take over Forza Italia (and Di Maio is giving him a hand)
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The leader of via Bellerio works on a center-right in his image and likeness. He wants to be Berlusconi's successor. And he needs not to break the coalition. The pact with Di Maio serves to consolidate a new bipolarism: their
Of Alessandro Franzi
Not the mortal embrace with the Movement 5 position, but the definitive conquest of the center-right. E’ This is the horizon that Matteo Salvini's moves seem to indicate, after transforming the League (Nord) in the first party of the first coalition that emerged from the elections of 4 March. The meeting with i 5 position – the first party – it is a necessity due to the lack of a numerical majority in Parliament. But it is also something more. Both Salvini and Luigi Di Maio intend to manage the birth of what they consider the third republic, no longer only disconnected from twentieth-century ideologies but also disconnected from ties with traditional political families. And to do it both leaders, Salvini and Di Maio, they banded together to weaken their opponents: on one side Silvio Berlusconi, on the other, the Democratic Party. And to rewrite the rules of the game: an electoral law with a majority bonus that can be certified in the next elections, when they will be there, a new bipolarism. Their. A strategy that may not even pass through a political government between the League and the M5S, which would kill off all the novelty in one fell swoop.
Who and how will go to Palazzo Chigi, but, we will only see it in the next few weeks. What is certain is that Salvini has had in mind for a long time a centre-right that some would rename "Lega Italia". The name is not important, as much as strategy. From the end of 2013, the secretary of the Northern League has worked on the construction of his national proposal, no longer limited to Northern Italy. It has adopted unifying slogans: against the sovereignty ceded to the European Union, against new migrations, against Islam. He caused scandal with his speeches based on the desecration of politically correct. And he inaugurated what he always does well: a permanent electoral campaign, which came down to the South, passing through the regions of Central Italy which rewarded him with often double-digit electoral results. Salvini represents the new right. Not just the radical one that has been talked about in recent months. His extreme message reached a moderate electorate left without references, and therefore ready to rely without intellectual hesitations. Salvini therefore also represents a new centre-right, which no longer has its totem in Berlusconi.
Who and how will go to Palazzo Chigi, but, we will only see it in the next few weeks. What is certain is that Salvini has had in mind for a long time a centre-right that some would rename "Lega Italia". The name is not important, as much as strategy. From the end of 2013, the secretary of the Northern League has worked on the construction of his national proposal, no longer limited to Northern Italy. It has adopted unifying slogans: against the sovereignty ceded to the European Union, against new migrations, against Islam. He caused scandal with his speeches based on the desecration of politically correct. And he inaugurated what he always does well: a permanent electoral campaign, which came down to the South, passing through the regions of Central Italy which rewarded him with often double-digit electoral results. Salvini represents the new right. Not just the radical one that has been talked about in recent months. His extreme message reached a moderate electorate left without references, and therefore ready to rely without intellectual hesitations. Salvini therefore also represents a new centre-right, which no longer has its totem in Berlusconi.