Roberto Saviano, the nothingologist who sets himself up as a teacher of life
Of Lorenzo Zuppini
Saviano is not a symbol, because nothingness does not symbolize anything. Saviano is an end in itself, It's the hit of every summer that everyone listens to but no one dances to unlistenable, banal, profoundly rhetorical and corny. It's a cooked apple that can only be well-liked by those who think that talk television is a real information platform, those who think that Mamma Rai is a public service and not a box at the perpetual service of left-wing indignation and respectability. Saviano is tailor-made for that very civilized part of Italy, very attentive to trivial things, who two or three times a week needs to feel part of a great fight against great existential problems, always very honest and unequivocally on the side of good, unassailable, as is the anti-mafia or the humanitarianism of humanitarianists of non-governmental origin, NGO indeed. Saviano, said 'o writer, It's good for middle school and high school visits, in lecture halls full of idle students who want to applaud a hero of civil society, induced into this soporific idiocy by public teachers trained and flattened by respectable and left-wing positions. We could write a novel about it, titling it “The wooden tongues”, because it is precisely that kind of constant political correctness that characterizes Saviano and his followers, i philanthropy, committed intellectuals, the lounge journalists, always good, superheroes threatened by mafias and bad right-wing politicians, just as seems to be happening to the author of the novel Gomorrah, just to return to the daily news. Read More
