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A sketch artist Sergio Nannicola: the dark side of aid. Jackals and vultures around a dying city. Dead and rubble on one side of the balance, profit and speculation over the other. Missing man.
GOOD RIS (KRK) ATA
Capita satire that manages to raise awareness with a good laugh, arriving just in caves where, sometimes, the right reel. It's already been fifteen years since Roberto Benigni, one of the masters of this life, he told us something about Mussolini in a performance that may be useful to highlight some aspects of the moral substance of certain players that have determined the fate of the emergency Aquila, which could be a new threat to Italy within a tangle of solidarity and profit.
You've all heard to say that Mussolini did some good things, "especially in reference to social infrastructure, including the popular features and monumental self celebration. It is precisely this kind of statements referring to the great comedian countered sharply with roughly a metaphor of this stack: it is as if you call the electrician, and this is good for you but in the meantime the plant will "trump" his wife.
Invitation to thoroughly enjoy the piece, a true monument to freedom, from this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s4RfjBnDPE
me say at once that 's opinion that the description given by Tuscan comedian - I would say with a wink to a transitive possibility of such quality to Berlusconi - would fit comfortably in a character like Bertolaso, a figure which I consider inherently ambiguous, in which elements of more or less varied and so cheap say "democracy" are woven around an air ducts and type-absolutist dictatorship. Here it should be noted that the term 'review', designating a knowledge that has no guarantee of its validity, is concerned with matters of beliefs, delusions, subject positions, relative and debatable. Speaking of 'facts' we should instead refer to events that point to the possibility of objective verification.
To be honest, if you think about it, I think also that my personal opinion on the commissioner in question, ports, now and in the territory of L'Aquila, a series of such factual elements that make it a little questionable, unless you want to persist in looking only a part to what has touched this city.
Bertolaso \u200b\u200bSome say it is a hero. It will be that I'm wrong, but I Bertolaso \u200b\u200bmore than a hero looks like a mercenary, a bit 'self-centered, a bit' fanatic, a little 'colonialist, a bit' dictator. Of course an up to date, decisions are often cloaked in a manner to be quite sophisticated and gentle, but one that has established - for a period of time that will determine our lives like a scar - an absolutist regime within a relationship of power to mold more colonial than democratic and cured by an earthquake in the city where I live, and where I have the right to seek a better way to live.
You do not like people who want to operate in uniform: the story is full of people in uniform in various crisis situations they sit behind a table to give orders the salvation of the people. These men in uniform often proved to dictators, that sometimes they try and sometimes succeed, a parade of various ways and various forms taken by the story, but always with a frown of similar background, that of "do as I say" . Changing the shapes of the uniforms, but do not change the basic ways.
If I am wrong I apologize a lot, but, given that in Italy there is freedom of opinion, I would try to use that freedom to argue my very bad impression. Also because the legs are like freedom: If you use lose strength.
THE R (epresentation) ACTION
A first point that I consider that whispers in the wrong way of the fundamental aspects of the figure of Guido Bertolaso \u200b\u200bcould be based on a factual level, derives from the way I am thinking of a trope particularly with regard to clarifying what is happening in L'Aquila (but unfortunately also elsewhere): the synecdoche. "The bow of the ship," for example. The synecdoche, stating "the part for the whole", lends itself well to describe the substance of the first mass media communication processes which have affected wound L'Aquila by the earthquake, where, opening a road two hundred yards, you could say that Italy had opened around the city center. The synecdoche is a spotlight on the one hand that hides the rest, censuring or insignificant elements, but also, at times, deliberately hiding the various traps. The most annoying use of synecdoche, which was made by Bertolaso \u200b\u200bis the basis of which has systematically chosen to emphasize - in the relationship that has bound L'Aquila, Italy and minimally in the world - only the part of solidarity, hiding a huge series of processes more or less legitimate profits, which are now afloat.
The synecdoche highlights what should hide the way, is a great way to cover the obscene excess of power. It is a reflector that this earthquake has brought to light with great fanfare only to help, often overshadowed the fact that this aid has helped more people that brought him who receives it. Even the stress is not ungenerous by the helpers, then make us a reason of speculation and climbing power is illegal as well as immoral. The synecdoche is the action of power, is the fuel that allows the propaganda machine working. The synecdoche gives this power because it implies a representation rationed on the basis of the reality of selection criteria culturally, politically, ideologically, economically oriented.
THE NEG (OZI) ACTION
If synecdoche relates to processes of rupture operated on within systems of representation, a similar procedure has invested negotiation processes of the interventions in the form of a binarization of fields of choice: o-all-or-nothing . The device of -or all-or-nothing is the key to a specific form of organization of absolutist power that can be understood as unconditional authoritarianism by the side of the dominant, and as a total loss of autonomy by side of the dominated, which is well-directed. The relationship that tends to set up a relationship of pure power, totally unbalanced in one direction.
L ' -or all-or-nothing , sedimented at the level of popular culture even said "this soup or eat or throw yourself out the window," is what happened with the curtains, with houses, "these are and you take them" in a total loss of autonomous decision-making by of the population. That's how a selection process among a list of possible choices can be disposed of, in our case on behalf of the emergency, as inevitable necessity (in our case, only those homes with only the plates, according to a project already in the drawer ).
L ' -or all-or-nothing actually denies the possibility of trading, and does so in a Machiavellian absolutism of memory, in which power considers sufficient in terms of its standing close bonum commune, where the actual capacity or ostentatious enough to give security becomes an excuse for hegemony in which leadership skills you can now tax, or domain.
L '(Agree) ACTION
After touching on the ways background in which they have implemented the representation (partial) event and trading (denied) of the interventions, there is to say something about the consequential process of acceptance of the systems of choice fell on the fate of the population survived the disaster.
In this case there was a mirror image process and therefore need to ' -or all-or-nothing trading denied, where the polarization between "yes" and "no" - prevented the rejection of the aid brought by necessity - he founded the requirement of acceptance by the citizens of the apparatus of Bertolaso \u200b\u200bwhich he leads. "I'll take you and help you accept this block." Here is the summary of the report that forced the city to accept, support, rape by a profit system that even the threat completely. Margins minimum of autonomy were only agreed with the inept and corrupt local institutions (but that's another story that I have done several times), leaving no possibility of a national agency.
The emergency, reducing the need, acceptance of favors processes that legitimize the logical device that is at the root of the deviation extremist of any relationship: that of tertium non datur , where an understanding of the possible dyadic and triadic, precluding a dialectical relationship, leading to the rejection of any compromise.
Accept means to receive willingly what is on offer, agree to another, in a meaning that is rooted etymologically in to take him, ie, understand, understand. The process of acceptance in the city have had a sufficient understanding of support?
What should be understood is that the macroentità that has fallen after the earthquake in L'Aquila sees a constitutive presence of profit and help. It is precisely this ambivalence that makes the partial Net approximations of the whole "pro" or anything "against", so it is more than ever given the growing healthy and scientific principle of the doubt. It is the question that opens up the possibility of discernment: the reserve of the "but" is a gateway to independence, a possibility of leaving the risk of eterodirezione. If "yes" seems naive to some and "no" total seems ungrateful to others, personally cultivate the possibility of "but", the "however", the "however".
As I for one am one who says ragionatamente thanks for the soup, but not the compensation is to reduce the city to a colony for speculators. I am a "though". I think the only action can be discerned without accepting (or not) block: separate, as they say Gospel, wheat grass bad, but in this case, about Guido Bertolaso, "head" of the Civil Protection seems to me that tip the scales in the weeds, although hardly visible because fewer high-grain, is really great.
CARE (MONUA) MENTAL
The name of ' Aquila bed leads to an enormous symbolic, between the world classic (it was the bird of Zeus) and shaman (the queen of heaven to the Siberian shamans, the sun for Native Americans). The symbol includes light aspects derived from the elegant strength of the animal as the pride, beauty, spirituality, the elevation as contemplation and purity of mind, and evil aspects derived from its being the emblem of predation, such as cruelty, kidnapping, imperialism, oppression, perversion of power.
It is ironic that today these issues in the city that bears a name so beautiful and awesome have crumbled, confused, sometimes completely reversed, finding out (think of the local authorities and the continuing numb to much of the population) a place of weakness and grettisima embarrassing political myopia. The back Eagle is attacked by vultures and jackals profiteers that lurked on the first day after the earthquake in the Trojan horse of aid, and became a prey to predator. Today, L'Aquila finds himself immobilized by a treatment that is not so much as to heal and anoint.
This -assisted be at the cost of loss of autonomy takes the form of a conviction being acted upon, which produces a non- be , distressing idea of \u200b\u200bhappiness floating in a drift heterotopic, without place, including the serial, impersonality, blasphemy landscape of the CASE project, and the empty consumerism of the only accessible public spaces at the time: the sad shopping malls. Now, L'Aquila, which was a beautiful city, is literally sucked, but through no fault of the earthquake: The earthquake has resulted in horror. L'Aquila starts suck because of that generated solutions to solve future problems, putting it into a circuit that produces urban alienation, in a city torn apart by communal metastases thrown in bulk between the margins of the rural municipality. This meant in practice that are only likely to give aid wearer that those who receive them. This means using the emergency as a pretext to convey public funds for the benefit of the profit of private entrepreneurs.
That's why I stink so much of a dictatorial by the city through the monumental small change of the CASE project, in that while home loan for quake victims, provides an opportunity Huge profit margins at many companies, and a resource with which Berlusconi propaganda and flaunt Bertolaso \u200b\u200bmiraculous qualities to be converted immediately into a palpable increase of political consensus. This too is a form of synecdoche: it satisfied few and they Rouge in front of cameras, the rest of them, as the rest of Italy groping for a living, the ones you do not see them. The Red Brigades had a motto: 'hit one to educate a hundred. " It is a system similar to that of the Government, the part for the whole "just to rub satisfy many." Who lives in the meeting of the CASE project Aquila ocean is through a free spot in a huge government, and pay the minimum wage with the tacit consent, or exaggerated emotion and thanks to those who are afraid of ending up in the middle of a road. Then, those who speak ill of the government will only do so because they are communists. And that's it, this game is already known but you could not recall. Here at L'Aquila and we realize who have cheated in this first stage, or we expose ourselves to be fooled again with Affairs rubble and (real) reconstruction.
In the first text editing - a month after the earthquake - to criticize the location of the CASE project, likened the story to that of Aquila Eluana poor, the girl who , just before the earthquake Aquila, closed his unfortunate adventure on earth after a cruel prison, with his body forced by the institutional machinery to live without a soul. In an inverse mirror I looked at the ban on military center of the Eagle as a death threat on his soul. Against those machines are still called upon to fight. Eluana and L'Aquila in both cases the aim is not perverse to leave the body from evil, but use the body for treatment. The machines finalize institutional care of the city not to healing but to parasitism are called like this: profit through the help.
In my opinion, the real cure for the city of Aquila is the development of a mentality. This mindset, would - out of rhetoric - in disposing vigorously to expel the invaders from the city, but always distinguishing the wheat from the chaff, that is dispensing hospitality and gratitude to those who helped us, help us and help us honestly, where honesty is measured by the mutual recognition of solidarity and autonomy, and not in undue sanctification. The real cure is to find and cultivate a measured pride that is able to distinguish and separate what is from what is wrong, ordering the city to defend itself against attacks without committing the error of close to healthy relationships.
should be denied some kind of logical exclusive ('s oo), where consent can not be absolute, as well as dissent. Some people see only in a system of civil protection assistance, others as just a system of profit, people see only in the CASE project a success, others only a failure, What is left out is a possibility of accepting inclusive (of ' ee), which may account for the paradoxes and contradictions in an institution as complex and intricate that the Civil Defence, and in the outcomes of its policies. Opening itself to an inclusive view of the contradictions you may have to recognize an apparatus that weaves help and profit, which covers the system of solidarity as a Trojan horse strategy of economic speculation, aggression that reaches the coup attempt is inherent in the neo-liberal claim of a company to make safety actions.
As the debris should be separate, distinguish, differentiate plans, and to understand that happens sometimes you know how to read between the parentheses, then you may realize that some gifts are in reality - certainly not only, but also - of Trojan horses. Let the heroes of the myths and start a discourse of consciousness in humans. The only one I see heroism in this story lies in the generosity and sacrifice of those who came in with no hidden counterparts. The only way to pay tribute to the sacrifice of the victims of this earthquake is to make putting heroes in sentinel of a reconstruction that is truly sustainable from all points of view, and which does not produce patches of new urban putting at risk future generations.
CAN 'MAKE A CITY' TO BERLIN?
It's pretty clear right now that I write these lines because they are outraged by the pro-Bertolaso \u200b\u200bevent to be held Sunday, March 7 in L'Aquila not so much because there are people who want to demonstrate in support of someone I consider very little praise, but because I can not accept that the meaning of this ceremony should be, who has organized this: "we do not accept that a national hero to be pilloried." On the one hand the "not" subtly makes the proclamation that event, a demonstration against those who criticized Bertolaso. Then, using a term, that of "hero", which is at least inappropriate to describe the person of Guido Bertolaso \u200b\u200bthrough his work. A bill would say that he also did something good, it is one thing to claim the title of "hero." The "national" adds a further element of concern. We are in a way even further than what I said Benigni. We must be careful to certain osanneggiamenti. For the sake Aquila and Italy. It begins with a city, and no one knows where it ends.
Heroism in an honest sense of the term, relates to actions described in terms of the gift, in gratitude, to the self-sacrifice. In a variation of the forms of the gift of generosity, reciprocity, possession, does not even Bertolaso \u200b\u200breciprocity: there is no reciprocity when the ' be -assisted is configured in non- be the earthquake victims, namely in the loss of autonomy aimed at the dispossession by profit.
the earthquake: now we are a marginal category, elements of low humanity, described as "not think that exasperated" by the mass media, such as lack of "clarity" from some politicians, animalized through months of tent cities and mass media representations seeking only the tear or URL, prepared for the domestication of the "thank you" unconditional under threat of being accused of ingratitude. Italy intolerant insults insults us as other minorities, a bestiary neorazzista we begin to perceive they were attached, as desperate luxury, but still desperate. Besides the blacks, the gays, Jews now there are earthquakes. The evil is a sign of guilt received is the primitive force of a universal archetype scapegoat, hidden under the coaxing solidarity of any civilization. The earthquake that produces a difference of culture. This can not be accepted.
The one here is reciprocity: "I will help you as I say, you make the earthquake, which say thanks and no wind, otherwise you're ungrateful." Reciprocity of gratitude in return unconditionally to the gift imposed is nothing more than possession. This makes Bertolaso, at best, if you want a definition that is ancillary to that of "head" of the Civil Protection, a mercenary in the service of a profit system, and a mercenary is not a hero.
is not the first time that the context of humanitarian aid situations are revealed as the exercise of such power relations of post-colonial and, in any colonial situation, who invades always uses the internal direct or indirect support to operate. So it's possible that someone in L'Aquila Bertolaso \u200b\u200bwill cheer for convenience, connivance or naivety. In this event, I personally see an act of propaganda is to support a policy of eterodirezione city in the name of profit for private use of public funds for personal enrichment or emergency to a strategy of climbing the national domain through the shortcut 'offered by the hegemony-emergency contexts.
I expect the president of the region to go nail it to say that this event Bertolaso \u200b\u200bis a hero, and maybe even the mayor Cialente (our mayor, who delivered the keys to the city to the Commissioner for Bertolaso probably as gain the ability to keep his bed patronage of caste), we should go along with the President of the Province Pezzopane. Sure, Cialente Pezzopane and should go to show, to maintain consistency with the line shown for months before the national media: big smiles, applause, bows, and thanks to Berlusconi and spumantini Bertolaso \u200b\u200bfront of 'Italy. Then, as was the case, whispered disapproval carbonaresche in front of the citizenship, but still far from the national media. It makes you think that there was a "let us make you rulers in Abruzzo, you will get your slice of the pie." But this is another matter.
I hope, as I'm concerned, that will be so many of the Aquila, the freedom to express their opinion, to declare outrage at the ' offense that this event is: can not be celebrated as a hero who was head of a system that has failed to make a profit on our misfortune, and I think that helped us while Bertolaso \u200b\u200b- doing his job - he also did this in a direct way and indirectly, by an enormous variety of forms that we are now beginning to understand: a profit in the etymological sense of the term, that he wanted to make his "company", a mercenary for the profit of various addentellati that while the city had prepared her for the rape, satisfied with the complicity of some local thug and charlatan , with the approval of the emergency.
You can not prevent an event. You can not prevent an event? It is a delicate issue, which, again, concerns the distinction between opinions and facts. It's a matter of relativism and universal values. You a matter of truth. Opinions are opinions, and - in a boundary weak, confused, overlapping and intricate - facts are facts. But here the earthquake, as does any other disruption, has disconnected the truth from facts, which can very well or poorly anchored precariously in the "normal" times, and now the truth is adrift in the morass of opinions. L'Aquila is a place where the truth is, more than anywhere else, at the mercy of the views: the earthquake was 5.8 or 6.3 degrees? Because we have calmed down? And now, Bertolaso \u200b\u200bis a hero? A national hero? Yeah, because someone Bertolaso \u200b\u200bis a hero, for others it is a profit, to some is a dictator. Not only that: whether the opinions should be respected, then it is also respected the position of those who think that Bertolaso \u200b\u200bis a murderess. This is in some cases of people who wear the cross of grief incurable, so their opinion should be respected twice. There in the world who protest against the burka or pro, who feeds the prostitution industry, who wants to wipe Israel and Palestine who want to cancel. Freedom of opinion is surrounded by land-based limits of idiocy, of decency, of horror, is a complicated thing.
So who is going to say in a public place that is Bertolaso a hero, I say a hero, he should know well what it is doing, or why is extorted or did not understand the meaning of certain terms. A hero is a hero. A hero, for example, who was stuck under the rubble, risking their lives to pull a wounded man. So I would be cautious, common among many heroes who came to L'Aquila, to erect monuments to Bertolaso \u200b\u200bterminology. Also - to want to talk about sacrifice - with more than three hundred dead killed with the complicity of reassuring messages (scientifically entirely unacceptable) sent by the Civil Protection that night, I think someone might be offended, and deeply, with every reason in the case, consider some enthusiasm, an act of sacrilege.
But the important thing is that the people of this city is beginning to understand, and whoever is in L'Aquila to make a profit on a collective misfortune begins to realize that in the wrong place . If we just trying to give some labels we should keep in mind that the hero is a figure linked to sacrifice. Then Forza L'Aquila, heroic city, which one has to start somewhere in order to cultivate a renaissance, and sometimes the rhetoric can help, that words alone are not sufficient but necessary if you want to do well.
L'Aquila 03/05/2010
Antonello Ciccozzi
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