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No, for me this album is overly hyped. It bores me a lot... after the first 4 okay tracks, but until the end it's a suicide. Good job, psycho... at least you didn’t tear your hair out from joy over this album... this will be the first review, if not negative, at least not positive, that I read. Bye.

Kosmo, very rationally: what people say about Neapolitans is nonsense, the result of individuals who don't want to see beyond their noses. I'm well aware of the feelings of the terrone family... I remember when I lived in Milan, when they would write "Maradona" or "drug addict" on my report card, when no one would talk to me, when the teachers would send me to the last desk, in the corner. I'm not xenophobic; someone who lives where I do cannot be xenophobic. 500 meters from my house, there’s a school occupied by Rom; did I say I despise the Rom? I don't think so. I said I can't stand how the Chinese come to Italy. They come here, don’t learn the language, do business amongst themselves... I don’t like it, can I say that without seeming xenophobic, racist, or a member of the League? My perspective, as someone drowning in illegality, has been an invitation to legality... a word that in Italy, who knows... what is it? Where do you buy it? But if no one cares about Prato, what should we care about, or what should interest us?

The best of the 90s

Got it, I'll look it up. One of those groups that have truly been robbed without anyone saying anything are A Certain Ratio. Everyone says this new wave copies the Division... I think that's true, but A Certain Ratio have been completely cloned.

Sid, the cause is always the same. Why is it that any political doctrine is implausible and mathematically leads to everything falling apart? Because the tool and the aim of every action taken in this world is man. The cause is man, and surely you can't cure him; no one has managed to do so, so I don't see why I should propose it :) I never said that the Chinese are the disease of this world; I said that I can't stand their way of being in this world... which is not something to be shared, but it's my opinion, absolutely mine... in the sense that I understand it might not be shared. You see Sid, the thing I can't stomach is when there’s talk on TV, among politicians, everywhere, about legality... I’ve understood that the only law governing the world is secular law, that natural law, if it ever existed, we’ve largely forgotten, that everything is relative and blablabla... but what I tell myself is, if we started to seriously address this damn legality, from checking receipts to prosecuting politicians to shutting down illegal factories, would things get better or worse? If we considered that there’s a simple law and that this law needs to be applied, what would happen? We need to stop thinking that problems are always insurmountable... they are insurmountable if you let them grow; if you take them on in time, you uproot them. The Camorra is insurmountable, but the situation in Prato, to bring back an example I've already made, is absolutely surmountable. Go there, shut down the factories, take the illegals and kick them out without ceremonies, tell all the entrepreneurs who have collaborated with them to get lost, and you’ll see that in two months the textile industry will recover, preventing workers who want nothing more than to work and support their families from being sent home to do nothing. What is this? A reactionary thought? Maybe, but it seems like a logical thing to me.

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Carlo, you're right. But now you find yourself in this situation, which is certainly caused not only by the Chinese, so what do you do? Let them continue and pay unemployment benefits to people who could work and be competitive without illegal competition? Don’t think about the entrepreneurs (for me, the bosses can peacefully drop dead and I wouldn't give a damn), think about the fifty-year-old worker who, once unemployed, remains so. Carlo, what I'm saying is meant as a remedy to the circumstances, not to the causes. If it were a remedy to the causes, it would be a proposal from a madman and a fool.

But it’s clear that it’s a palliative. No one said that the Chinese are evil, absolute evil... at least I didn’t say it. They are a harm, a harm that can be easily remedied. It’s clear that in a country where the prime minister is the first corruptor and the first tax evader, it’s impossible to ask for the closure of ILLEGAL factories, and these days, where being on the left means being overly compassionate and sentimental just out of fear of ending up close to a League position, it seems almost impossible... this is the reason why the left will never win and why the Italian leftist voter is the worst in Europe: because they lack an identity; they have to think about how to react to the demands of reality. There is nothing superficial in my reasoning. Bye.

Don't worry: after taking an exam in Geography of International Relations, you won't be able to get the Chinese out of your mind. Guaranteed. So? Should we close the textile companies in Prato and then pay unemployment benefits to everyone, or should we shut down the illegal factories? I am for the most extreme localism. I'm not against globalization (it's pointless to be antagonistic to things that are already in place and that you cannot fix), I am against the consequences of globalization, and what is happening in Prato is an example of that. What do we do: give in to the circumstances or seek a remedy?

Hypocritical and limited? Explain yourself.