Operation Cagnara.
It's been a while since I've posted, also because there usually needs to be something that stimulates me to write. Thanks to a change of project and the desire to look after something else, the current trend is amplified in the incredibly profound transformation of the Italian national press.
First, one thing needs to be explained. We know what government propaganda is in a dictatorship. But what we don't know is what propaganda is in a democracy, i.e. government propaganda.
In dictatorships the work is simple: everything goes well, everything goes better, we are right, the big boss is right. Easy and effective. The aim is to get everyone to approve of the dictator's actions.
Well.
How does the dictator exclude that propaganda causes the opposite effect? I mean, you say "everything is milk and honey", and you have a rebellion because people suck milk and honey? Well, there are many ways, some of which are violent, but the point is that the propaganda of the dictatorship alone cannot provide the certainty that the population will not rebel. Then we need the political police and the whole apparatus.
But a democracy cannot act like this, with the police and the political apparatus. So how do you stop people from taking to the streets?
People in a dictatorship take to the streets against the government, so this happens: “it's all milk and honey” -> “your milk and honey sucks”. We can leave out why they suck, whether it's the fact that not everything is milk and honey, or whatever.
To prevent people from taking to the streets, on the other hand, clear messages are never given that one can be against. It is said "perhaps everything is milk and honey, but also distributor and anchovy, but in order not to be biased we must also give space to those who say that everything is pipe and temperament".
Such a message is completely confusing. People don't understand what the hell is going on. Ok, that it's not all milk and honey I can think, what the hell does distributor and anchovy mean, or pipe and temper?”.
Propaganda in favor of an immobile democracy must prevent anyone from making decisions. Taking to the streets is a decision. You need strong reasons to do so. If you're just confused, you DON'T make decisions. You don't know what to base them on.
There are therefore two schools of propaganda. The first says that if a population splits in two, and the two sides balance out, the polarization also works. But this has a risk: as happens today between right and left, it can happen that everyone polarizes to one side only. In that case you get an enormously stable democracy with a powerful government.
And the economic powers don't like this, because it could happen that a superstable government decides to piss on its head, and they couldn't do anything about it. If tomorrow Meloni loses her balls and decides to piss on the head of Confindustria, for example, it becomes difficult for them.
It is therefore convenient for the mafias, parishes and masonries to have a government that is unable to conclude anything, but does not have much enthusiasm.
So we rely on the second school: everything goes well, no it's not good, yes it's good, no it's bad, it's pink, no it's blue, the heat is a problem, no it's a resource, there is It's always been, no it's never been this hot, blablabla.
Under these conditions, the government is in power because the population is too confused to take sides. There are, of course, polarized minorities, but for many the question is "what the fuck is going on, exactly?"
And this paralyzes any protest. Protest against what?
Take for example the story of the minimum wage. There is practically everywhere in Europe, but what information did you get? Did you have this:
- it's soviet
- but also not
- then all salaries adjust to those
- but where they did it worked
- disempowers unions
- but then it stirs up black
- the grasshoppers
How do you decide if it's right or not? You have to ask yourself. If I ask myself, this is the result:
I'm all for the idea of someone else getting paid more.
But how many can describe a political principle (of many) in which they believe, in a single sentence? You can't, because the entire Italian press is participating (since the newspapers now belong to the very few – very rich) in the Cagnara operation, made to ensure that by dint of pros and cons, you go and have a beer. But don't go to the streets, despite the fact that Italian salaries are the lowest in Europe.
What is YOUR opinion?
Another interesting question is there a crisis?
For me, establishing whether there is a crisis is simple: how much money do I have left at the end of the month?
For you, it looks like a bunch of things like "yes, it's worse, BUT ….". BUT we are among the lucky ones, BUT we are always better than them, BUT in the end we can't help it, BUT the numbers say we are doing better than so and so….
For two years, the forecasts of body X show Italy growing more than the rest of Europe. Then the predictions do not come true, on time. But bombarded by this thing, instead of looking at the bank account you're looking at the papers. What then, I mean, even if other countries are worse off (which they aren't), if you can't eat, what do you have to celebrate?
When a guy searches funeral announcements to find out if he's dead or alive, he's probably alive, but very, very, very confused.
The other trend I see is the proliferation of magic words. Oh, Prodi has even returned to TV, to pronounce his magic word: “the controls”. According to Prodi, prices have doubled with the arrival of the Euro, because "the controls" have not been carried out, which he certainly would have done.
Aha. But let's go beyond the magic. We touch reality. First of all, in Italy it is not possible for a man of the state to enter a shop and syndicate on prices. Not only is it not legal, but even if a law were made, it would end up doomed in front of the constitutional court. The "checks" could not be done. Italy was not the right type of regime, where it can happen that a man in uniform enters a bar, points to a donut and says "this costs too much, halve the price!!".
But let's also suppose that Prodi had made an illegal and unconstitutional law, and had made them. How would they work, exactly?
- Panzerotti cost too much, halve the price, villager!!!
- Here they have always cost more, they have remained as before.
Did Prodi intend to register every possible price beforehand, in order to have the minimum legal basis to issue a fine? (which would later result in an appeal).
Moreover, I was a merchant at that time. And all my suppliers doubled. So, would I have had to work at a loss to make Prodi happy? No. On the door of my helpdesk you would have found a nice sign "closed for renovation". And amen, see you again in two months, when "the checks" will be over.
But Prodi created a magic word: "controls". And every idiot on the left, when you contest Prodi's change, tells you this magic word "controls". But check what? Since when does a statesman have the slightest legal basis to enter a supermarket and set prices?
It doesn't matter, by now "controls" have become the magic word. There is the name, therefore there is the thing. Magic.
In this condition, if I were also talking about Italian or international politics, what exactly would I be talking about?
I would increase the noise.
That racket that is disorienting you, so you don't make the decision to take sides.
But how are the newspapers doing to fill the front pages? Minchiatine. Tons of random bullshit, many made up when written with ChatGPT, in ALL Italian newspapers, that keep you busy reading stuff you don't give a fuck about.
The important news has become a disconcerting pettiness, the newspapers have given themselves to a minimalism that makes you laugh. All that is missing is Giovanna's victory in the condominium championship of Poisoned Ball in Cernusco sul Naviglio, civic number 28F.
And especially, accusations against foreigners. Health ministers writing an opinion on how hot it is, as millions of other Italians have written, and poof: THE ENEMYOOOOOOOHHHH!!! Silly poof buys a bottle of water in Spain and tells 2000 other people that Europe doesn't believe in water, and poof: THE ENEMYOOOOOOOHHHHH! Does the Image say one thing about Lake Garda? THE ENEMYOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!!
(as if the typical reader of the Bild had the money to go and be a tourist on Lake Garda).
Why do you need an enemy? Do you think it's to compact the masses? No, the answer comes from Flaiano:
And you can see the reason there: " always ready to point out in others the causes of his impotence or defeat " The others in this period are the evil Germans, the ECB, and in general anyone who does not speak enthusiastically about Italy, and vaults of Europe, if we talk about tourism.
IN these conditions, reduced to crazy tops in front of a cannon of shit at high pressure, what would be the point of writing about it? Increase entropy, i.e. the uproar?
What's the point of trying to write logical reasoning, when Santanche', owner of a 500-euro-a-day venue, calls those on the left "radicalchic", implying that now it's the right that represents the poor and workers? (that 500 euros today they take them in a month?) . Increase the Cagnara?
This is the reason why I am writing a lot in English: it doesn't make sense to increase the racket in Italy.
I won't contribute to the racket, that's all.