Fedez dissolved.
I was reading here and there on the feeds of the Italian press, when I noticed that Fedez had been hospitalized in the "solvent" department, and for a moment I had a moment of confusion. I mean, solvent department? Did he snort the white spirit, like they do in the favelas? And are they anionic or ionic solvents? What do they melt us, exactly?
Then I looked better by doing a simple Google search, and I saw that the "solvent department" is nothing more than a department with simply zero waiting lists, as the patient pays the entire cost himself, instead of 'wait for the authorization to arrive from the management of the "Local Health Authority".
Since the expense is huge, the question arises spontaneously:
Why don't you call it the "rich department"?
Now, the fact that in Milan there are different departments for the rich and the poor should not be surprising, in those parts everything has this subdivision, there is also Jesus Christ for the rich and Jesus Christ for the poor, abortion for the rich and abortion for the poor, etc.
So yeah, why not use that name?
George Carlin explains it to us:
And he explains it in a precise moment, when he talks about shell shock: when the veterans who were victims of "shell shock" returned home, there was someone who took care of them . After having "technicalized" the term, with the usual "CazziBuffi Catarinfringenti Syndrome" (today in the USA EVERYTHING is a "syndrome"), interest dropped to zero, because the word is devoid of any humanity and does not represent a person's suffering.
And so, since the rich are in the spotlight and since the healthcare system has long queues that kill people, and some are ashamed to say that there are public structures where the rich get ahead, it is said that it is in the "solvent department", borrowing the term from sinister accounting.
Many, superficially, attribute the change in language to "political correctness", but this is an almost classic example of how wrong they are: there is no politically correct rule that requires calling the rich "solvent", and if anything I would attribute it to made of feeling ashamed in publicly admitting that they have public hospitals where the rich go first.
The problem is not political correctness: the problem is using the dehumanization of terms as a fig leaf, to cover up inhuman acts of which one is ashamed.
And I believe shame is the driving factor in hiding this phenomenon and its meaning. If it is necessary for a comedian to use satire to expose him, the problem is that satire is that comedy that raises the fig leaf.
If someone is thinking of a certain Emilian comedian, I deny it immediately: saying that "solvent" is a fig leaf to hide that the rich are put through it in a public hospital, means bringing out the truth, saying that Ferrara becomes shitting on yourself in a bathtub, unless you have witnessed the scene and attempted to hide it, does not accomplish the same task.
The corrosive task of satire, in these terms, requires two things:
- there's something bad
- shame pushes us to actively do something to hide it.
in the case of the fact that in Italy there are public hospitals with areas reserved for VIPs, in itself, the shame exists. The fact that they have been called "solvents" in a clumsy attempt to hide the fact is a fig leaf.
So no, don't mention comedians from Romagna to me: Luttazzi didn't do this.
Having said that, since I am not a comedian, and blogs are never assigned the task of satire, because they are inevitably classified as political, I wonder if there is a tool or media that is capable of carrying out this task.
In my opinion there is:
In this case, the meme consists of a neutral way to force newspapers to explain what a "solvent" department in the hospital is, given the comparison with the obscene Brusca, who dissolved children in acid.
Is it even possible to make an even nastier meme?
This is political:
Then OK, you can also overdo it:
But how did this phenomenon arise, and why has it spread more in certain regions than in others?
The answer is that in Lombardy people have always gone, paying, for treatment in Switzerland. Obviously I'm talking about rich people who had accounts in Switzerland, because in this way the bank could directly confirm their solvency. (now do you understand the name better?).
It was a good chunk of money going abroad, so why not try to get such a lucrative market share? And if private clinics in Lombardy had made this reasoning, I would have had nothing against it. The problem is that Italian private clinics suffer from normal rag-tag capitalism, which sees them as companies incapable of growing.
Therefore, taking advantage of the history of the ASL, whose A means company, they used structures that at the time were built by the state, with state money, to use doctors paid and educated by the state, with the aim of keeping capitalism inside ragged Italian, and acting as a beautiful clinician with head doctors, university professors and an internal pharmacy, but with state money.
Now you will tell me that the money that the rich pay then ends up in the government's account and everyone benefits, but things are not like that. What happens is that the money ends up in the hands of a LOCAL HEALTH COMPANY, and at present nothing arrives, because – how strange – it is "spent to maintain a high level of service", that is, subcontracted to companies in the right political orbit. The Sicilian patient will not have any benefit from this revenue.
This trend of going for treatment elsewhere and paying is widespread throughout the Alps, but not only. In Bologna, thanks to a university full of highly renowned professors, a Masonic system of "Villa tall trees, and only the actual surgical part takes place in the "solvent" part, except that the trick is the name game. It therefore happens that in Bologna you will be in the "Freelance Activities". You are in a Villa Then go to “Villa X” again, which has no real medical facilities, but looks like a luxury hotel.
In Rome the thing started with the Pope's private apartment, and then led to similar phenomena, but to leave Rome an hour in an ambulance isn't enough like Milan/Switzerland, so the type of escape was materialized only for other cases, and is more similar to that of Bologna.
You will think that in any case it is not possible for Lombard hospitals to compete with Swiss ones, given that private Swiss clinics also offer the possibility of doing sports (for rehabilitation) or having parties, and they have no problem giving badges for access for escorts (prostitution is legal in Switzerland).
This last part is the next healthcare scandal you will see, but the point is that, if you are so ill that you really need surgery, like Fedez, you won't want to play golf, even if Berlusconi had done an office in the hospital you won't want to work, and with a cut to the stomach many males lose their ambitions.
But the point always remains this:
The existence of all these euphemisms is a distortion of language, designed not to show reality.
The fact that you think in a language allows you to manipulate the language, to the point of manipulating the thought.
And so far nothing new. I certainly didn't discover it.
After all, this year your chocolate ration has increased: from 100 grams today, up to 50 grams. This is why you have never asked yourself what a "tax wedge" is.