Regardless of the siege of the word fetishists, obsessed by the claimed (and never obtained) rejection of the “fascist” denomination by our prime minister, Giorgio/Meloni receives yet another homage: the homage of the lookologists, masters in the art of crawling, to the official uniform exhibited during the G7 last week. That putwhich combines the pointed shoes with an improper weapon, the “squashes ants in the corners” model, with the fluttering outfit of the Jack Nicholson. The Witches of Eastwickrated seven and a half by the messenger and awarded on “IO Donna” with the evaluation “styling to copy” (for all Italian women with short legs and strong hips). Yet another Melonian success in the international meeting which definitively trashed the chic radicalism of the right to abortion and marked the end of recess for the short season of civil and social values dear to the seats.
In the frame of rude brindisino from Borgo Egnazia, who with his fake aesthetics personally brought to mind the unhappy experience (which I continue to reproach my better half for) of a week in Sharm el Sheikh; spent locked in the hotel room after dinner on the first evening, in which I was overwhelmed by the horde of pasta-making compatriots assaulting steaming pots in the still heat between the Sinai and the Red Sea; after discovering the Bergamo origin of the Bedouin who received us in the folk tent in the center of the fake Arab medina for tourists. The standard ofmass entertainment from Egypt to Puglia as an aesthetic of the time.
Therefore, the social climbing of our double-faced Prime Minister, who has understood perfectly, continues apace the spirit of the time; in his double register: acting like Orban at home, presenting himself at the international-Atlantic level as the quisling which breaks the front of the chaos of the ultra-right; and will probably offer its external support to the re-election of the elderly German Barbie in Brussels Ursula von der Leyen. That is, the framework determined by the rise of post-democracy in the West in its simplifying imperative “not to disturb the operator”. With the corollaries “eliminate annoying counterweights” (legality controls first and foremost) and “technocracy in power” (vote manipulation as a sacred anointing of the new controllers).
From the observatory of the place where I live, the rampant order made an icon by the trumpeted “Genoa model” post-Morandi; monomaniacally re-proposed in different versions (sand dams, invasive skymeters, superfluous cable cars and treadmills). In line with the ongoing Melonian restoration: the combined provision of differentiated autonomy for the division of Italy’s spoils, abolition of abuse of office to remedy the messes of public administrators “friends”, division of careers to subject the investigative judiciary to the control of politics, premiered to crystallize the existing power relations.
The new coherence – celebrated in the Brindisi resort of wealth on display at three thousand euros per night – which at an international level means submission to the plutocratic hegemony of financialized capitalism and its businesses (today weapons, tomorrow the frontiers of the trans/post-human Artificial Intelligence and computational medicine); perfectly internalized and flaunted by Meloni. Which will probably join in France Marine Le Pen, leaving in their jets the irrecoverable massacres like Vox in Spain and AfD in Germany. Obtaining, in exchange for submission, a free hand in gratifying the gangs of supporters with the dismantling of civil conquests which have jeopardized reassuring hierarchical certainties (the myths of the strong man in government and the male in the family, fundamental for the mental health of small people who salute Romanally and today even beat up those who display the tricolour). Not fascism – please! – but Obscurantism, deluded into saving Western hegemony by demolishing the twentieth-century historical projects of the Enlightenment: the American New Deal and federal Europe, both reduced to empty shells. And where are the defenders of democratic civilization sold off at a price per kilo?
Again from my local observatory, the representative of the fight against Obscurantism turned into profiteering should be thatAndrea Orlando who lost the lesson from an early age to marry the cynical opportunism of the Third Way (the Left that apes the Right) combined with the cult of party politics. Hence – according to Orlando – the error of the corrupt extortionist Giovanni Toti would have been to not involve the parties in the negotiations on Aldo Spinelli’s yacht. Yes! Where I come from, there are rumors of an agreement between the recidivist Orlando and the resurrected Claudio Burlando to occupy the space of power created following Toto’s Tangentopoli.
