EDITORIAL – There is a monster inside us, there is no point in denying it. It is from there that all the problems that every corner of the world is more or less full of start from, even if we are interested in staying in this city.
On the occasion of April 25th we have a wish to make and make: that we can free ourselves. Above all, free ourselves from hatred, of which the capital of Tuscia holds abundant supplies. Often veiled, sometimes hidden behind the facade of respectability and “looking bad”, in many cases not even recognised.
But what is hate? It is that leaden feeling that others would like to be affected by “misfortunes and misfortunes”. Ultimately we hate ourselves because we think that when others are worse off we end up shining. But there is hardly a glass that shines in a filthy environment.
And as for filth, we can say without fear of contradiction, we don’t miss anything. We are the city where there is threat, where people are now afraid when they talk to someone in the hypothesis of being recorded; the one where the public debate is monopolized in a redundant manner by facts that are intended to be made greater than they can be in reality.
But all this also serves another purpose or in any case ends up being functional to another hatred. The hatred of bad organizations that make people wait months or years for an important health exam (a hatred that risks causing death), the hatred of those who “crash” some saint into Paradise by burning the place of some poor Christ , the hatred of those who “lend” and request, the hatred of those who rent public places and then, again for some saint in the right Paradise, perhaps do not pay for years by stealing money (with the complicity of many silences) from kindergartens nursery, children’s parks, senior centers, roads filled with potholes.
Then there is the hatred of those who construct false or artificial narratives to discredit others, those who constantly apply a double standard, those who use horrifying language in the belief of gaining the electoral consensus of the desperate (even cerebral) person in question. There is no shortage of hatred from know-it-alls, because the belief exists that if you quote Plato “ad minchiam” (from ancient Latin) you are always right. The hatred of those who make others work and “forget” to pay them, of those who don’t know how to send even an email spend the whole day shooting at the work of their colleagues in the belief that the more they focus their sights on others the more they goes away from your head. There will be a separate hell for them.
The hatred of ideologies, of ignorance, of religion as a football team that demarcates and propagates crazy clashes of civilizations. A river of hatred that waters down everything, that weakens healthy criticism, the possibility of keeping attention high on truly important issues. Who does not seek answers to the central questions when talking about who administers or has administered public affairs: is there anyone who steals? Is there any rent that has been paid improperly for years? Is there any uncollected rent? Is there any public property being sold off? Are there any photovoltaic systems on our schools that have been paid for but never put into operation?
Hatred is the child of mediocrity and when you are mediocre you tend to skip entire passages of the Gospel. Thus we become judges of others, not knowing that Christ taught: “Judge not, lest you be judged; for with the judgment with which you judge you will be judged, and with the measure with which you measure you will be measured. Why do you observe the speck in your brother’s eye, while you do not notice the plank in your own eye?”.
The hope is to free us all from this, to free Viterbo. Happy April 25th.
