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Bergoglio's Church has no future
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by Marcello Veneziani
What is the weak point of the message of Pope Francis to the world, what is the main reason why it arouses great dissent? Corrado Augias on la Repubblica, responding to a reader who had seen his televised dialogue with me, he noted that in my last book I would have erected "a coherent edifice of reactionary thought" in which I criticize the Pope because he reduces faith to sociology. The observation about the Pope is correct (even if I deal with something else in the book) but I would not place it in the realm of reactionary thought. The definition of reactionary in itself doesn't scare me but it doesn't reflect the meaning of that criticism.
To tell the truth, I don't criticize the Pope just because he breaks with the past, with Christian tradition and civilization, with the history and doctrine of the Church of past centuries. But for something that in my opinion is more radical and more devastating. It's no longer there in the Church of Pope Bergoglio the waiting horizon, the expectation of the future and transcendence. Everything is folded and resolved at the historical juncture, in this today and in the urgency of helping.
The incomparable resource of the Christian religion compared to any secular vision is to envision the eternal beyond time, the future beyond earthly life, the resurrection beyond death. The Christian message that opens hearts and conveys minds is all aimed at the future, and faith like hope are theological virtues entirely aimed at the future, to what will happen. The supreme strength of faith it is taming death, give a glimpse of life beyond the earthly parable, make it clear that it doesn't all end here, that life is beyond and outside the tomb, come out; and beyond the human there is the divine, beyond history there is eternal light. Read More
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L'antifascismo dei cretini
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Of Marcello Veneziani
We have always had patience with idiots who are not evil and with evil but intelligent ones. However, we can't have it with bad idiots, maybe originally just idiots who then turned bad or just bad people then turned stupid. But they grew out of all proportion and got worse. I'm talking about the new anti-fascism, autumn-winter collection, that feeds on fascistometers to measure the degree of fascism that is in each of us and instructions for (non) become fascists, of fake Anpi that wave anti-fascism also the 4 November, no longer made up of partisans but of militants of perennial hatred; and then of mobilizations, demonstrations and mischief, conveyed by newspapers, newscasts, talk shows and many institutional stickers. Like that Cool guy who alternates declarations of anti-fascism with surreal declarations of love regarding the rapes and massacres of drug-migrants. For him, violence is fought with love, as the most unlucky flower children said half a century ago. He's getting there now, fifty years later and about something as terrible as the fatal rape of a little girl.
We tolerated the old anti-fascism fogey, trombone, a bit of manner. We were even able to tolerate a resulting anti-fascism, violent, intolerant, extremist. As long as it concerns the agitated lunatics of the social centers, of some feminist in ideological heat or with fasciophobic hotties, or of scattered idiots of grillism and old leftism, we got over it. Read More

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How to betray November IV
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Of Marcello Veneziani
After a year of masochistic commemorations to self-mortify, the day finally arrived when we are forced to remember the Victory and its centenary. There he is, il 4 November, On the contrary on November 4th, Fatherland Day. But you will have already heard how that anniversary is transformed into the Official Story told by presidents, ministry, media and professors: Victory disappears, the Nation as well, to the Homeland only a timid puff of powder and the fallen are spoken of as poor victims of nationalism and their leaders. The rest will be all a celebration of peace, dell’Europa, of humanity with the implication that heroes and victims of war have fallen in vain, for a bloody illusion.
The memory of the Great War is exactly reversed: it becomes the celebration of Europe and the mortification of nations identified in nationalism. But the historical truth says exactly the opposite: the First World War was the funeral of Europe and the triumph of Italy, although mutilated.
From that conflict Europe in fact emerged ruined and weakened, it was no longer the center of the world, it lost the Central Powers that were its backbone, the world began to divide between the American West and the communist East, crushing Europe in the middle or relegating it to the periphery. Communism was born from that conflict and then the reaction to it, German frustration was born which led to Nazism, fascism was born. With the Second World War, the decline of Europe started by the first reached its epilogue. The eyes of the pacifist ideology do not want to see the tragic and glorious reality of that event. Read More

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Pound, the unforgivable
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Of Marcello Veneziani
Pound, the unforgivable
If I think about November 1st 1972, when he died Ezra Pound, A black gondola appears in my eyes as it carries the poet's body in a sober chestnut coffin on its final journey to the Island of San Michele.; his thin, curved, hieratic body, his head framed in a mythical white crown on his head and around his face, which shone in the sun like a hieratic aura. Every time I go to Venice I can't separate what I see from what I remember, every gondola seems to me to preserve the memory of him, the remains of the mad poet, who loved Italy and its tradition, Dante and Cavalcanti.
For days we have been talking insistently about Pound in relation to current events, indeed to political-judicial news. They are indignant that a movement like CasaPound he “appropriated” that name. And, for goodness sake, Ezra Pound House cannot be a besieged fort or an alternative social center for young political militants; but let's remember into which house Pound was forced by the beautiful democratic and Western world: the Pisan cage of a concentration camp, the Saint Elizabeth criminal asylum… Of course, the real Pound House is not a closed place, it is the sea of ​​Venice, the city of art and poetry like Florence, the glorious sky of Rome. Read More

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Media versus people
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Of Marcello Veneziani
Media versus people
Source: Marcello Veneziani
Cara Lilli Gruber, but how can Italians trust you if you write about itSet a comment with a title like that: “All populists lie. They are dangerous and opportunistic"? And the title faithfully responds to the development. He knows he's offending three-quarters of his viewers?
Like the 60% I feel like one of the Italians right now, with all the critical reservations that I do not hide, more on the side of the populists than their enemies. And I'm not just offended by his definition, how hurt by Italian, as a journalist and free thinker. I would never use a statement like that even for the worst enemies; I would distinguish, I wouldn't feel in possession of the truth. I don't bet on the success of this government, I say it every day. And it surprises me that the one attacking in that way is the one who was generous with the Grillini and their sponsors, to the point that often – even the other day with the embarrassing, rambling, Dibba's rant – gave the impression of being Grilli Uber. I don't hold the inconsistency against you, they are his business, I know that grillini are fine for her if they hang to the left, if instead they ally themselves with Salvini they become bad. There are people who still divide humanity into fascists and anti-fascists, and reality is lost, the present, the world, 70 years of history, communism even.
Through her, actually, I take it out on the media, the Press and TV which are offering a disgusting and desolating spectacle: the Italians on one side and them united on the side of the establishment. I wouldn't have expected the opposite but at least a variety of positions and the ability to distinguish and analyze; someone equidistant, someone else who understands people's reasons, someone who recognizes pieces of truth in the opponent. No, Nothing, a Chinese army, monolithic, monotonous. Like in war. Read More

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Don't be afraid of sovereignists
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Don't be afraid of sovereignists
Source: Marcello Veneziani
Even in Sweden the sovereignist wave is growing, but not enough to overturn the government structures. The Le Pen pattern is repeated, with the Front National first in consensus but not able to be a majority nor able to find allies. And at that point the anti-sovereign coalition is born, all against one, and stunted governments arise on fragile alliances (like in Germany or Spain), with presidents unwanted by two-thirds of the population (France) or spurious coalitions like here. Or even two are born, three “national” parties cannibalizing each other (English case with the bifurcated Conservatives plus Ukip). The real problem is that we are in the middle of the ford, and therefore the situation risks paralysis between the not yet and the no longer. Because then the pro-European governments of moderates and progressives combine two weaknesses and two declines, they drag countries into political coalitions of mere survival, within crumbling systems, subordinated to the economic potentates, away from the people, within a Europe reduced to a monetary union in the name of the control apparatus. But let's go back to the representation and the perception that people have of it, the media give it, gives it the power.
Today's Europe is founded on fear. Fear of the foreigner for some, fear of nationalists for talatri. Xenophobia and nationphobia are the two dominant political categories, le twin towers dell’Europa. But with fear you don't make sensible choices. Read More

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