Q: Who can blame all those who in recent years have turned away from politics? The situation seems immutable: corruption, lack of values, concerns, trade-offs. But I also see people who stubbornly persist in fighting for their country: journalists (few), satirists (censored), teachers (from derisory wages), judges (labeled as “communist”).
It would seem that these people, to help the ‘Italy, want to change the costume.
Operation daunting, perhaps impossible. Yet it seems to be precisely the problem: the culture.
The citizens of Scandinavian countries have free access to many services: health, education, broadband. But there the taxes are paid, not in Italy. In the United States, at least a few decades ago, if a politician was caught spying on rival party had to resign, in Italy this has never happened. I regret when reporters tell us that foreign situations such as those occurring in Italy in their country would be impossible. “Silvio Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy”:
The Economist, the British conservative newspaper.
But the most disturbing is not it know that they are Italian citizens to have allowed all this? It is true that in Italy there is no freedom of information, it is true that people do not look for information. It is legitimate to ask oneself questions about the past of our Prime Minister;
moral issue rather than political. Asking questions does not mean to condemn in advance, but demand answers.
What is the culture in which no one wonders why the Fininvest, a subsidiary of Knight, consists of 34 holding companies, ie companies designed for the sole purpose of making it difficult the establishment of the origin of capital?
Because when Berlusconi “needed” a groom on his right arm, Dell’Utri, went to Palermo and brought Mangano, a Mafia boss who was later sentenced to two life sentences for murder and trafficking drugs?Why in a hurry during the first hundred days in office, has been decriminalized false accounting, international letters rogatory have been detained and was condoned the export of capital abroad?
It is those who truly love their country, that asks these questions.
A.: When politics is how she describes it, means that the company suffers not so much that expresses the loss of values that once possessed, but had not yet acquired the two and internalized values essential to proper living.
They, in my opinion, are: the sense of the state and civil ethics.
The causes are easily attributable to three factors:
1 . The Italian State has only 150 years of life against the centuries-old experience of France, England and the Scandinavian countries that you cite.
In all those centuries, Italy was divided and ruled by foreign powers, so that the state was the “stranger”, from which we felt represented and entertained hostile feelings towards you. The culture of the “enemy state” has developed, in all its aspects, even the most degenerate, that stretch of exaggerated individualism, which everyone does his own business in the most complete disengagement of the public.
2. Italy is a Catholic country whose culture requires background, as it wants the image of Augustine, the subordination of the “earthly city” to the “heavenly city”. This hierarchy is based on the fact that Christianity is the destination of the individual after death, its existence, even though they are in the world, must be separated from the world and the meaning of his life “privatized.”
The individual is responsible for achieving their salvation after death, the State, who governs it, the task of reducing the obstacles that stand in the way to this realization.
In Christian thought, morality and politics diverge, because the individual no longer has family destination with the destination of the company. This is why Rousseau wrote:
“A Christian is a bad citizen. If your company does his duty, this is a fact but not of principle, it is essential for the Christian heaven.”When he is not faith in heaven, why do not we revive the civil morality never cultivated.
3. The ethics to which our consciences are sensitive is in fact still very backward. It focuses on those three commandments governing sexuality, murder and theft. The latter, in the form of pickpocketing, the defrauding of the houses, the robbery. Theft more complicated, and therefore more profitable, and therefore more harmful to society, moving to that level which is more subtle to high finance, they are not yet entered the collective consciousness, and if they are in the judiciary not always possible to deal with them with sentences that can arouse indignation and moral condemnation. The combination and interweaving of these three factors produces the low level of civil morality, not yet reached the joint direction of the state, generates policy that she complains. But in truth it accurately reflected the cultural level of our country.