October 12
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We've heard a thousand times to say that democracy is not perfect but so far is the best system, and I must say that I am a little tired.
It seems that, because it is the best system, it should be developed and analyzed.
It seems that the top of democracy has been achieved in some recent past in some countries and not far undefined, but probably in some bucolic industrial region between Copenhagen and Stockholm around 1995.
There is a dogmatic approach: no one even dream of questioning the foundations of democracy.
If someone speaks critically is immediately accused of being undemocratic, but if someone behaves in an overtly anti-democratic, like our B, only vague distinction and feel weak positions.
Democracy is a system and there are no perfect systems and improved.
So this conservative attitude really does not seem to conceal the preservation of democracy, but the status quo.
Read: if they change the rules of politics, the political class current decays. Continue reading »
August 03
Some weeks I was in Pai in Thailand and looking for something to read in the lonely evenings in sweet soy milk.
Between "Angels & Demons," a novel by Clancy and Lonely Planet, is checked out of this autobiography of Gorbachev.
I like biographies and autobiographies, I find "inspiring".
I gave the cashier 200 baht asleep and I immersed myself in the Soviet Union in the last century.
After a few days I was already 80 years to come, in the early stages of perestroika, and at that point I was surprised:
I began to see strong parallels between the Soviet Union for 80 years and Italy these days.
And as I continued reading, the more I became convinced that we are experiencing a kind of end system, with political leaders still immersed in a surreal vision of society, in the past and committed to the preservation of the status quo. Continue reading »
November 05
A few months ago I wrote a post in which I expressed my doubts about whether Obama wins the election.
I concluded by saying he hopes to be wrong.
I was wrong and I'm happy.
I do not consider your most trusted political commentator.
The feeling that I feel is relief.
If McCain had won I would have had confirmation of something quite sad: democracy is over.
Obama won and I have no confirmation.
Indeed, perhaps, is being revived.
Even America, which had been left to drift, we give hope with a flick of the tail.
How nice it would now take a plane, put the camera in your pocket and turn America to breathe the air.
Now it's up to those of our home. The Berlusca and his minions look older today.
They go.
It is up to others now.
Who? Ehmm ... I do not know, not to Veltroni.
Even now he seems older.
