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Of Adriano Segatori
Sovereignty cannot be negotiated
Source: Italicum
Sovereignty – this one with a capital S – is first and foremost a mental conception, a psychological attitude, a true spiritual style.
A characteristic of man is to talk about what no longer exists, and health is the most striking example of this. When people meet, they don't report good blood pressure data or the regularity of their bowel movements, but they list flaws, various annoyances and disorders. The exact same mechanism is in place for other issues that concern personal and collective life.
There has been rant about family and education ever since the family was decimated by individualistic selfishness and the exercise of the most disparate vicious rights, and education has been excommunicated by the exaltation of spontaneity and uncontrolled independence. Dozens of authorizations are required and school photos are prohibited in the name of privacy since everyone posts the most obscene revelations of their physical and mental life on social networks. We talk too much about freedom and democracy when houses are transformed into forts and the life of citizens is forced between cameras, grates and armored doors.
In short, the real void is always filled by an imaginary surrogate: it is the law of nature. Read More

Of Marcello Veneziani

Tom Wolfe died in America last Monday and I would like to say something about radical chic, of which he was the discoverer and brilliant slayer. I too have criticized them since I met them, As a boy I read Wolfe's book against them which Alfredo Cattabiani had published in '73 by Rusconi. On the contrary, before the radical-chic I met their ancestor, lo snob of which Panfilo Gentile spoke ill, noting that snob stands for without nobility, fake nobleman who poses as one. As well as opinionated, i radical chic they snob they become detestable when they become intolerant towards those who do not belong to them race.
But I don't like their backhand at all either, crude pop ignorance. That of those who hate all reading and despise everything that smells of art, thought and culture, that of those who make contemptuous and demented judgments online without understanding, without knowing; that of those who hate the world and belch and fart against the universe and all greatness in the name of freedom and rights. That of those who suffer fromegalitarian envy, he wants to make those who are better off than them suffer and have them confiscate what they have deserved and achieved. In short, those who assert their encyclopedic ignorance as a right and a virtue. Sometimes they are even right-wing people, although usually the homunculus-type is below the right and left. I can't say which is worse, radical-chic or rude-pop. Or better, I would know: the worst are those who make their arrogance or ignorance fall on others. Read More