Stoney

Telespalla, you’re right. We are entering a historical period in which the term "unlawful" will make no sense. Surviving "honestly" in such a world will be impossible: honest will become synonymous with fool, no ifs or buts. People will engineer every way to screw each other over with unfair and inhumane methods. The most refined among them will ensure that those who use these methods achieve a level of wealth that allows them to impose their worldview on everyone else: it will become law, custom, culture, and will be protected by major institutions. The culture of the future, in short, will be the noble art of screwing over the neighbor and teaching everyone that weakness is a crime. Those who succumb in such a jungle will be seen as poor fools who, foolishly, couldn’t impose their own rules for their own benefit, unlike all the other straight shooters, so it’s only right they got screwed. By now, everyone understands that the world is a mess: the struggle is between those who still suffer from it and those who have realized that taking advantage of it ultimately represents a significant advantage.

The Black Book of Communism was written by the communists themselves over the years since the fall of communism to today (and perhaps even before that) thanks to their spirit of self-criticism. No former communist with a shred of common sense would dare to deny the terrible atrocities for which the red regimes have been responsible throughout history, and in the face of certain realities, one feels guilty almost personally (I mean true ex-communists, don’t come at me with the usual fucking examples of potheads hanging out in social centers, that's really going to piss me off). So why insist and keep hammering on this point? Ah right, because it’s necessary to convince people to the point of exasperation that the current world is the best possible, that there's no escaping the logic of the capitalist market. Behind the count of the dead, I read not so much a condemnation of the red flag, but rather a vulgar act of indoctrination aimed at convincing people that anyone who dares to think of a more humane world is, deep down, an immature fool filled with childish fantasies who doesn't realize they are handling ideals that could be potentially deadly for themselves and for the community. And if this is the purpose of the work, I would say it has been fully achieved: five stars.

I endorse comment number 41.

De Lorenzo, I've never seen an intolerant racist like you go to such lengths to appear tolerant and democratic. The ATM incident, with your comment steeped in the usual violent outrage of those who dream of a state made of conformity and batons, opens a fantastic window onto the ideological aberration of the respectable bourgeoisie that you so proudly claim to represent. I wonder if you would have been just as scandalized if a gang of thugs had set fire to some Romanians near your nice ATM. I don't think so.

I don’t know why, but among those “beautiful pieces” that you talk about and this junk, I see no difference: behind it all, there’s always the same buffoon who can’t string two words together and can only make himself understood through gestures, yet he’s regarded as a poet of the new generations. A guy capable of writing pedophilic lyrics and at the same time being hailed by the critics like the various Mollica who have their heads up their asses (I have to admit that’s not an easy feat), so essentially, a real son of a bitch, who in this country that considers sons of bitches as the pinnacle of socio-cultural evolution of all humanity can only thrive, get rich, and make billions of converts.

Last!

"Battisti is for us a little Dylan, insofar as he has turned the page, setting a trend." Now, however, I would also like to know what he said that was so significant that allows him to be remembered as someone who has "turned the page." Of course, 9 out of 10 Italians have sung La Canzone del Sole at least once in their lives around a bonfire on the beach, but I don't think that is enough to make a singer an innovator. As usual, there are people who can't survive without elevating national-popular media phenomena to the level of innovators, geniuses, prophets, and the like. O' revuàr

Calvino pure and simple genius

Great review!