Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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The whistle of discord

Over the past two days events that took featuring two members of the PDL have reported the headlines the dispute through the whistle. Offering to politicians, opinion leaders, columnists and so on and so forth a new food for thought to fill the pages with other political crap this summer a little 'subdued (just think of the long debating on August kitchens and apartments in Monaco) .
the field, were then deployed to combat the pennivendoli Berlusconi on one side and the usual other dissident voices. The beautiful cases were of course the two objections to the sound of whistles of the "square" against Marcello Dell'Utri and Renato Schifani, who has been reminded of their past in the scent of the Mafia.
The two they have been invited to two different meetings, the cultural festival of Parolario and PD in Turin, respectively. On both occasions, as the two pidiellini took the floor, a large group of activists (now Qui Lecco Libera militants, now grillini now activists of the People Viola, now the Movement of the Red Diary) have begun to roll out banners, whistle and articulate phrases ineggianti their alleged links with Cosa Nostra, thereby preventing the two berluscones to keep their speeches.
Now that the allegations of squads and fascists are thrown in a bipartisan insulting and defaming is flawless, the fact remains that the way these protests are things I can not agree. is certainly evidence that the two gentlemen in question are not at all deficino pulpits from which to express their views, yet prevent externalize their thoughts is decidedly undemocratic. If the protesters did not want to listen to them, they could easily go away, or rather, where a parallel event to tell what the other side were silent. The whistles are sacrosanct, but only when they are spontaneous, not organized in advance and in order to silencing the opponent. Otherwise, we descend to the level of those fans that Berlusconi Prodi attacked in their time at the Bologna Motorshow (only in that case no one condemned them, let alone the president of the senate).

Friday, June 18, 2010

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The last words of José Saramago

died today at the age of 87 years, José Saramago, the only Nobel Prize for literature in Portuguese. Atheist and communist, is self-exile from his country of origin because the conservative president at the time, which is also today, he had wanted to present one of his works to an international prize since it was an unorthodox book on Jesus dealt Saramago often also of Italy, which dealt with the political situation, among other things, in his book "The Notebook" that Einaudi did not want to publish because it contained criticism of the prime minister. Notes were also taken its position in favor of Palestine, the Middle East conflict, for which he was branded as anti-Semitic.
In 1947, after doing menial jobs to sustain himself and his family, manages to publish his first work, but will not have much success. Will you get a certain reputation through the poetry books and novels, especially Memorial of the Convent and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis . Blindness is considered his greatest masterpiece.
This morning, before his death, which occurred around 13, he posted a final post on his blog (caderno.josesaramago.org), which has left perhaps the teaching of a lifetime.

"I think today's society needs philosophy. Philosophy as space, place, method of reflection, which may or may not have a specific goal, such as science, which advances to reach new goals. Are we missing reflection, we need the labor of thinking, and I think that, without ideas, not going anywhere. "