Voto:
I am an atheist. I cannot stand any form of theocracy. I cannot tolerate any kind of religious and/or political fanaticism. I am not a communist, I am not a neo-con, I am not a centrist. Years ago, by chance, I observed him while he was talking about horses in front of Giuliano Ferrara, and I was shocked (not certainly because of the horses or Cerreto Alpi). I admit: I didn't understand his choices, which were, in my opinion, incomprehensible even considering the illness that afflicted him. Some time later, I began to see, or rather to read and hear, a growing discontent towards him, which was certainly understandable. Discontent turned into fervor, fervor into hate, hate into dehumanization and finally into insults. The same people who once sang his songs at the top of their lungs were now kicking him. The same people who had listened to him, loved him, eternally thanked him, were renouncing him, ideologically burning his records. Giovanni Lindo Ferretti is a man. He makes actions, choices, changes, just like me and everyone else. But despite many, he has prompted reflection, thought, comparison, and criticism of even the most obvious things. Usually, people's obtuseness is equal to that way of thinking in which everything must remain the same, unchanged, unyielding. Usually, the freedom to express oneself is that genuine one of writing one's thoughts in black and white, which at 20 is one thing, at 30 becomes another, and at 40 and 50 (if you reach that age and don't die beforehand) becomes yet another. Typically, those who renounce their own choices have issues with their past (and perhaps also with their present and future). Ferretti, unlike many, has NEVER renounced his past and has often even exalted it (even today as a sweet and perfectly committed believer). Ferretti, despite all this, still tours and at nearly sixty years old, still sings the weary and biting songs that make you uncomfortable to think could come from the mouth of someone who prays in the morning and again in the evening. Ferretti, unlike many, is a consistent person. I don’t like to pray, I cannot stand high-ranking prelates or catechists, I don’t believe in God, I don’t believe in the Church, I don’t believe in Islam, I don’t believe in Buddhism, and I don’t even believe in Walt Disney. But I believe that Ferretti is a consistent person, one of those rare individuals who instead of making the masses dream (as petty rock stars have always done) has made them THINK with their own minds. Whether they agreed with him or disagreed. To all those who have mocked him over the years with the motto "Dalle pere a Pera," I feel like responding, "from CCCP to Negramaro."
