Tomorrow, Leonardo Sciascia, a man of tenacious thought, would have turned 100. To the harshness of reason. To the brilliance of the Masters in the complexity of the world.
Re-reading his last page, “the fact is that there are many fools, and even more fanatics; they enjoy such good mental health that allows them to move from one fanaticism to another with perfect coherence, essentially remaining still in the eternal Italian fascism. The State that fascism called ‘ethical’ (it is unclear which ethics) is their dream and also their practice. We must acknowledge, however, a kind of good faith: against true ethics, against the law, even against statistics, they believe that the terribleness of punishments (including the death penalty), violent and indiscriminate repression, the abolition of individual rights, are the best tools to combat certain types of crimes and criminal associations like the mafia, ‘ndrangheta, camorra. And they will continue to believe it.”; L. Sciascia, A futura memoria (if memory has a future), Adelphi, 2017, p. 19.