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by Marcello Veneziani
Dear Boy born in 2000, I thought of you in the twentieth century as a mythological figure, a kind of Martian who would have inhabited other worlds, it would have fed itself in other ways, it would have traveled to other galaxies. This was the euphoric promise that circulated in the sixties of the last century, at the turn of space conquests and beyond. It was the dream of escaping from the ideological and bellicose twentieth century to enter a millennium that was neither red nor black, but milky like the street of the same name, and glassy, as befits transparent video.
Father of two children born in the last millennium, I dreamed of having a third child in the third millennium and to joke with immortality, I also promised a fourth child in the fourth millennium... But then life took another turn.
Now I'll meet you around, I touch you on the street, I pass you while you're leaving school or going to university, and I see you all too much like me, ours, brontosaurs of the past millennium. But under the skin of a resemblance, if I then look into your life, in your lexicon, in your imagination, in your knowledge, I find an abyss of differences. Some are definitely to your advantage: the ability to inhabit technology and the globe, with a mastery that we didn't have, the ability to navigate the mathematical universe, your refractoriness to collective dreams, except for environmentalist flare-ups in the name of Gretology, the new planetary sect. But the feeling that comes over me is exactly the opposite of what the average person makes you perceive, school & global agencies: they made you believe you had a longer view, wider, global, compared to previous generations. Read More

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by Marcello Veneziani
I still haven't recovered from Alessandra Moretti's video, telegenic exponent of the Democratic Party, which justifies the decision of the mayor of the Democratic Party of Pieve di Cento, Sergio Maccagnani, to cover with curtains i Christian symbols which appear in the cemetery so as not to disturb the sensitivity of those who are not believers. The project, explains the mayor, “plans to install a motorized darkening system with fabric sheets that will allow the sacred images and family tombs to be temporarily covered, so as to allow the celebration of secular rites". I thought it was a fake, a gag, a caricature made against the PD, of the left and the secular. Instead, the national representative of the Democratic Party takes it seriously and favorably, in Paolo Del Debbio's television program, underlining that these are “removable” tendons. I can't believe it.
I'm afraid an immovable curtain, lasts like a cataract of dementia, has descended to darken those minds. Let's try to reason even in the presence of unreason. A civilization that has existed for centuries, for millennia, follows religious rites, adopts religious symbols, lives among signs of Christianity everywhere (he asked, squares, hospitals, schools, civic buildings, municipal cemeteries, ecc.), at a certain point he should hide his symbols so as not to disturb those who do not believe. Given that everyone is free to believe or not, but what a nuisance, what a shock, what problem can a Christian symbol cause to those who are not Christian? If it doesn't attach any meaning to those symbols, they are declassified to pure funeral decor, what torment or affront he suffers? What suffering can he have if he was born and raised in a country, in a civilization, in a story, in which those symbols are and remain prevalent over the centuries? I understand that at Notre-Dame the brave Micron, Macron's more realistic surname, you forget the "business name" of the cathedral and treat it as a secular monument, state and republican. I understand that Christians for Obama and Clinton are reduced to a primitive sect of "Easter worshippers". But with the AntiChrist curtains we have reached Perfect Idiocy, unattainable, that secularists and anti-Christians all over the world will envy us, from Sri Lanka to Canada, to touch all the degrees of the rainbow. Read More

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The echo of the 25 April, with Mattarella's warning not to trade freedom for order. The only true one rings in my ears, sensible objection to the opinions expressed here on the 25 April: as the anti-fascist Vittorio Foa reminded the fascist Giorgio Pisanò, today you are free to speak because we won the 25 April. Even more true in the mouth of Vittorio Foa who was an anti-fascist against the prevailing regime, ended up in prison, he was not a posthumous anti-fascist, when it was easy and advantageous to be so.
But I would like to understand what happens to freedom now, how it is conceived and experienced today by ordinary people. That is, I would like to test drive Mattarella's declamations on freedom or in the name of Foa. I try to put the noise about the Resistance and anti-fascism on silent mode and focus on present and current freedom. But what is this absolute value today, Freedom, which should not be exchanged either for order or for any other good or principle? How the vaunted freedom is actually understood and practiced by ordinary people, come on guys, from the opinion factories of today?
I walked around alone among the people on holidays, il 25 April, I could hear the conversations in the bars or the kids perched on their scooters, I smoked a cigar in a secluded corner where the kids were smoking joints and there was a coming and going of immigrants. I listened to their chatter and it reminded me of other conversations I had already heard elsewhere. Languages ​​change, but not the horizons. And in the end I feel like I can answer the question this way, what is it freedom for the people, for young people, for current opinion? It's the freedom to do whatever I feel like doing, that goes around in my head; freedom is having no limits, except the cheap ones, get rid of rules, moral obligations and boundaries, free your desires, live as I like, I am what I want to be; without following any prescription, no tradition, no rules. Even if then, in fact, follow fashion, i trend, conditioned reflexes, the consumption conveyed, prefabricated opinions. And then, nothing to think about, only things to buy. Read More

Obviously, we ate a fantastic lamb and then a Florentine steak of rare goodness. Because God has made certain animals available to us to feed on their flesh. Some, also for religious custom.

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by Marcello Veneziani

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by Marcello Veneziani

But you can't fix it along the way citizenship income, make it more socially useful, ethically more worthy, more economically sustainable, linked to an asset rather than a liability? I'm not saying abolish it, at this point, I say at least correct it, bringing him back to reality. I'll try to explain myself.
First of all, what's wrong with citizen's income? Which is assigned by practically leaving the beneficiary at home or allowing him to work illegally. An income assigned regardless of commitment, by merits and abilities. The first signs of its perverse functioning are not lacking and the so-called navigators or coaches who should evaluate the requests and access to income of citizens remain shrouded in parastatal mythology.
It shouldn't be an unproductive income, a heavy burden borne by the community, and that it is entrusted to a vague job placement path, on the basis of which job offers will gradually be presented to the beneficiary (come from where, generated by whom?). All very smoky, even if paved with good intentions. Instead let's try to have another discussion, starting from the society we live in.
So, we live in a society of old people, increasingly older and lonely, abandoned to their fate and to the TV. Young people in turn abandon the cities, especially the southern countries, they go away in search of fortune. A terrible age-related racism is created in our societies whereby the old can only be with the old and the young can only be with the young, there is no longer active communication between generations, a chasm has opened between the ages. Families fall apart between the elderly who need to be cared for and the children who "divorce" their parents because they have to go and look for work far away. What will become of many centers where children leave, reduced to chronic hospitals or shelters for jobless migrants? It is a serious emergency but there is no political and social discourse that tries to address the issue. Read More

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May there be a turnaround in the world, of a populist nature, identity, sometimes conservative and sovereignist, to use current jargon, we've been writing it for a long time. And that is explained in this context the success of Salvini's League it is equally evident. But it makes sense to still talk about the right if the forces that represent this wave almost never define themselves as such and if the old twentieth-century language can barely survive in a residual way? Read More

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Eighty years ago in April, the bloody civil war ended in Spain. The Caudillo Francisco Franco came to power. Conservative Spain, Catholic, military and nationalist eradicated republican Spain, communist, secular and anti-fascist. Francoism was the ideal target to concentrate the Absolute Enemy of modernity and the left in a single image: scammer, militaristic, fascist, clerical, servant of the Americans. An ideal summary of the Enemy and the military representation of God, Homeland and Family. Then in Italy, with the Francoist paradigm you killed two birds with one stone: fascism and the DC, with respect to which Franco was considered the link, the living demonstration of clerical-fascism, reactionary synthesis between military, clerical and dictator. The clerical-fascist is the opposite cousin of the catho-communist. This was confirmed by the support given by the Church, then Opus dei, the agrarians gave in to Francoism.

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Ramy is Adam, Greta, Nora, the ten year old girl used as a testimonial against the Pillon law, Marius, the child protagonist of the film C'è tempo by Walter Veltroni (who had already made a children's film called Children Know); and The Children's Paranza, the film-book by Roberto Saviano, but above all the children exhibited in congresses, in the street demonstrations of the Democratic Party, used in schools or in programs at Fazio for anti-mafia campaigns, anti-racism marches, anti-homophobia, anti-pollution, better if black, rom, migrants or disabled people. The utopia of a better world has ended up in the hands of children.
If they want to land immigrants or support the ius soli, show pictures of a child, they tell a heartbreaking story, like that of the drowned child with his report card sewn to his chest; they try to pass the landings and migratory flows through merciful chance, the poignant story, the tenderness to which it is beastly to say no. Children shield themselves, they use them as Trojan horses.
The Italian left will be pro-abortion, not very inclined towards the natural family and motherhood, will lean towards homosexual couples, winking at rented wombs, but for some time now it has devoted itself to childcare and the use of children as testimonials of its battles or those it wants to exploit. In that way he wants to confirm his superiority on a moral level, civil and sentimental and his special sensitivity towards the future and the generations to come. They want to mortgage the future, monopolizing the "childishly correct" thinking of children, considered naturally left-wing. A political form of pedophilia, in an etymological sense, of course.
Right, the use of children is part of the political repertoire not today, so as not to go back to ancient times, just think of the twentieth century: the use that American presidents have made of it, i papi, the red and black sovereigns and totalitarian regimes, it was massive and never random. Showing the caress of a leader to a child, photograph a family picture, having a childish image or a private scene stolen with apparent casualness, it has long been part of political jargon and its communication strategies. Also Sandro Pertini, who also had no children or grandchildren, he wanted to appear like a grandfather who loved children. Even Sergio Mattarella, as soon as he can, pertains. Associating your image with children makes you more affable and reliable. Read More