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The fact remains, good answers or bad answers to a new inquiry, that in Italy in 2008 not only the rights of homosexuals are not protected and their unions are not regulated, but also those of the so-called "normals" ... so: not only are "tolerated" the queers but anyone who steps out, even slightly, from the circle is "tolerated."

I completely agree.

It’s impressive, but you can’t deny that tastes are shaped by the culture of the taster. Of course, every taste is sacred; everyone has their skeletons in the closet. However, if you look at a raw slice of a fountain, the most you might think is that you could do the same if you lowered yourself wearing skinny jeans. If someone moves from Jackson to the Minutemen, it will probably just sound like noise to them, and that’s because they are less cultured and savvy. This isn’t an aristocratic argument, but a simple reality. For me, beauty exists only in the eye of the beholder, but if you’re blind, then you're in trouble.

Anyway, it’s striking that we are drifting away from the reason I thought about writing on love rallies. How come, coincidentally, with the arrival of the new government, there have been assaults on gay people, assaults on Roma camps, assaults on immigrant shops in Rome (and don’t tell me that the guy had Che's tattoo on his arm because in Naples everyone has it just because Maradona has it)? Do you think it’s just a coincidence, or is it because we have been pushed into a corner by the media? And why do you think that in the week leading up to the vote for the mayor of Rome, an assault occurred that received so much coverage on TV, cumulatively getting more minutes than the collapse of the Twin Towers? And why did the attacker choose the lawyer with the highest fees in all of Rome? Who is paying for this lawyer? What I wanted to say is that we live in a violent and xenophobic country, and if we are like this, it's because we are being guided by the highest powers to be this way.

Well, it's clear that in order to speak, one generalizes even though it's never right to do so.

It breaks, but the masses are by definition indefinable. Why do you think Michael Jackson sells a shitload of records while the Wipers barely manage 4? Because the masses, at best, are stupid. Unfortunately, I'm not a communist. I swear, I would love to be anything, but instead, nothing. However, I’m convinced that history, I mean history in the Marxist sense, no longer exists since there are no two opposing sides. Today, it's not the United States vs. the USSR like in 80s movies. Today, at most, they are against the Taliban, guys with beards who don’t like looking at ladies' butts, who don’t have TV and who don’t even resemble us... So it's too easy to choose a side :)

Sure, Pasolini resurrected by the Medusa is really a sad thing. It breaks, you see, according to Marxist theory, which conceived history as an eternal succession of class struggle, there is no alternative. Here I write whatever the hell I want and that’s because Debaser is enlightened and enlightening, but what hope is there to change the course of things? If tomorrow there were elections and Refoundation won with 99% of the votes, do you think that the day after there would be "communism" in Italy? I say that whatever we do has no effect on the course of events, and just look at the last electoral campaign and the current much-discussed security decree, which mirrors Amato's. The world is like this; they have transformed us all into bourgeois, and we have no choice but to become hermits and ignore the world itself. You say that today we are freer than during fascism, and I don’t believe that fascism is so different from us. I'm sorry, I know the definition of democracy too well to give in to the seductions of its courtesans and its thugs. Let me give you another example: those who protest against a landfill risk prison. I disagree even though I agree with the reopening of some damn landfill. Why, rather than punishing the guy who doesn't want to see his orchard turned into a landfill, don’t they punish the source of evil, namely the Camorra and the damn industrialists? And how can you punish the Camorra or the mafia when the two strongest political parties since the post-war period have a gargoyle that kisses Totò Riina's mouth and a damn dwarf who hosted mafiosi in his home? You will say: and what does that have to do with fascism? Well, I would like to show you the neighborhood where I live and the curfew that starts at 9 PM to make you understand what it means not to even possess your own FREEDOM.

Great, on that YouTube video I wrote an editorial that ended with a blasphemy, and that crazy guy Maledetta Primavera (hi Antonio, wherever you are) published it, flooding his inbox with insults—proof that you can’t say whatever you want everywhere ;)

so... it breaks, what I meant by abyss was not referring to customs or simple gestures of "civilization." I was talking about politics sliding increasingly to the right in a much more insidious way than what has happened in the past. take fascism: fascism, like other dictatorial regimes, is a clear entity. you immediately perceived its evil and tried to react (resistance). today, the dictatorship is much more insidious because it's implicit, yet equally oppressive and does not allow for real possibilities of resistance, or at least I don't see them. paraphrasing Pasolini, "the civilization of consumption and television has succeeded where fascism failed: to anthropologically change man." Odra, I know that there are no legal Italian versions, and I know that the English edition is the best, especially because when it interviews people from the South, you understand more from the English subtitles than from the audio :) as for illegal versions... fortunately, those are not lacking. there are also many excerpts on YouTube, and I've included a link to one of them. specifically, the one that shocks me the most and leaves me tense for at least half an hour. bye

so... it breaks, what I meant by abyss was not referring to customs or simple gestures of "civilization." I was talking about politics sliding increasingly to the right in a much more insidious way than what has happened in the past. take fascism: fascism, like other dictatorial regimes, is a clear entity. you immediately perceived its evil and tried to react (resistance). today, the dictatorship is much more insidious because it's implicit, yet equally oppressive and does not allow for real possibilities of resistance, or at least I don't see them. paraphrasing Pasolini, "the civilization of consumption and television has succeeded where fascism failed: to anthropologically change man." Odra, I know that there are no legal Italian versions, and I know that the English edition is the best, especially because when it interviews people from the South, you understand more from the English subtitles than from the audio :) as for illegal versions... fortunately, those are not lacking. there are also many excerpts on YouTube, and I've included a link to one of them. specifically, the one that shocks me the most and leaves me tense for at least half an hour. bye