The Mediterranean "graveyard of water," between past and present
There was a time when the routes of the Mediterranean were reversed. From Italy to Libya is to win, to bring "civilization", to "return" where it was Rome, Italian immigration to open new roads. A time not far away, forgotten, closed for comfort on the back burner or maybe you just missed, as you ignore the history of Italy which until a few years ago emigrated.
It was in ancient Libya had the right, searching for morphological similarities, especially with somatic conditions and even the Sicilians, he wondered Unit even more "expansion" that would include the conquest of the other side and everything that was Roman. The same position of Italy in the Mediterranean, long bridge between Europe and Africa, was a key shift in privilege of men.
Times change, ideas are, perhaps simply reversed. The Libyans are looking for their "Promised Land" in Italy, the same who called us in an exchange of roles that today may seem paradoxical. Why is there a strange paradox in all this, there is a strange uneasiness that arises not only from a historical account, but the slow agony of a sense of humanity, the same does not seem to be referred to the agreements between Italy and Libya on the rejection of immigrants.
few days ago, Rocco Buttiglione, speaking at the book "Coffee" by Corradino Mineo, reassured the Italians: "In Libya we have ships, weapons and ammunition". There does not seem to be rules of engagement covering the operation with firearms to peaceful vessels. It does not appear.
incident of Libyan patrol boat that fired on the Italian minister Maroni has closed the question with: "They thought there were illegal immigrants on board." As if it was permissible to shoot at head height and normal to immigrants.
Someone raises the possibility of warning: do not wander into the gray area, where rejections occur in any medium and at any cost. There are economic interests at stake.
And so one wonders if the same Italy that will not allow themselves to accept that illegal immigrants die in the desert dehydrated in the Mediterranean or killed without mercy, if Catholic Italy should not come to terms with his conscience as well as seriously. Or if there are deaths and deaths of Series A Series B But here you lose the essence of man himself. As if to say, we lost humanity, but we continue to seek God
There was an ancient legend about the dead and dreary in Our Sea, lu shoo, "a leaden curtain of black mountains", not formed by clouds but by "a crowd of billions of souls who came from every world and compressed on one another in such a way that forarne layer is impossible ", the" sword of God, "driven by" a supreme justice "which hit only those who deserve, which collects the souls of "those sailors that we did wrong in life, but also the spirit of 'enemies alive and all those sailors who want to harm" because "the devil is stuck them there."
With these words, full of disturbing influences, the writer Milan picked up back in 1918, the legend told by a sailor from San Benedetto. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe Mediterranean as a huge "graveyard of water," a place of death of life that permeates the literature of the twentieth century, the sea teeming with sacks of dead bodies, skulls appeared on the shores of our sea, the endless stream described by Pascoli that "carried the voices of Memphis, Babylon, Nineveh, Athens, Pergamum , Alexandria, Hierosolima, "evoking the shades of the sea battles of Rome and Carthage.
For the same, and sometimes disturbing, reversal of perspectives, we learn to listen to voices from the "old Libyan shores, those for which the Italians have a long shed blood. After all, the voices of the men are all alike. Only entries.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Gay Cruising Spots In Colymbus Ohio
"Newborn taken from the poor mother." Italy gooders of mass?
It's easy to judge. And you even earlier to sell a story with headlines will attract the attention of readers. In a sudden whirlwind of thoughts around, shoot the Italian gooders. Everyone was outraged, shouting all that is shameful, rant against the state and all its inefficiencies, and then, forgetting all serene and peaceful return of the event.
"Newborn taken from her mother because they were poor." The news in July, recent developments. The Court of Trent said the newly adopted and began a pre-adoptive custody. Beyond the purely legal considerations and time, the reflection should get over "the title itself and expand to several considerations.
right that justice does not always work in Italy, but the information should not only do audience, as is increasingly the case. The Provincial Councillor for Social Policies of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Ugo Rossi, back in July, in a letter addressed to the Minister Carfagna, stressed that it was unfair to publish news that they went "to discredit the work of the Court and Social Services accused of carelessness, callousness and injustice. We can not get the message and that 'enough to be economically difficult to see each other or steal a child instead of punishing the institutions that help poor people'. "
The crux is this: do not get the message that poverty is an injury. I do not think that in Italy it is, let alone children who escape easily from their mothers. Indeed, one can say otherwise. Sifting around for news, there is only a few timid nod to earlier reports drawn up by social services delivery, instability and "poverty" emotional fragility of women. Should know the details, but in Italy a few interested. It 's easier to crank it up with the clichés and prejudices, to blame the State and Justice, as if to make a single episode sfogatoio staff. And here are a must, two life stories.
G. , 7, walks every morning the paths of the school between the profanity of his mother, Italian stress, a litany that accompanies it until the entry into the classroom, from the looks of outraged do-gooders and unsuccessful attempts signal. Discomfort family, behavioral problems, dull eyes as he tries to play in the garden taking a beating classmates.
M., age 7, cook the sauce, taking care of the brother of two years, knows how to prepare pumpkin pie, as in the tradition of his country. The views have to go shopping with a teddy bear in her hands when night falls. It does not have a childhood, says that in his eyes.
At this age, the red tape they take away the right to live serenely side carefree life, the one where you should learn to dream. In these cases, all the do-gooders ready to invoke the reverse: why social services are not there? And the state? The State has failed?
This is not to judge, but to evaluate. Italy is always easy solutions at hand, and add, click. Motherhood is a right, but even more children .
Maybe you need is a change of perspective: the child at the center of interest, always.
It's easy to judge. And you even earlier to sell a story with headlines will attract the attention of readers. In a sudden whirlwind of thoughts around, shoot the Italian gooders. Everyone was outraged, shouting all that is shameful, rant against the state and all its inefficiencies, and then, forgetting all serene and peaceful return of the event.
"Newborn taken from her mother because they were poor." The news in July, recent developments. The Court of Trent said the newly adopted and began a pre-adoptive custody. Beyond the purely legal considerations and time, the reflection should get over "the title itself and expand to several considerations.
right that justice does not always work in Italy, but the information should not only do audience, as is increasingly the case. The Provincial Councillor for Social Policies of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Ugo Rossi, back in July, in a letter addressed to the Minister Carfagna, stressed that it was unfair to publish news that they went "to discredit the work of the Court and Social Services accused of carelessness, callousness and injustice. We can not get the message and that 'enough to be economically difficult to see each other or steal a child instead of punishing the institutions that help poor people'. "
The crux is this: do not get the message that poverty is an injury. I do not think that in Italy it is, let alone children who escape easily from their mothers. Indeed, one can say otherwise. Sifting around for news, there is only a few timid nod to earlier reports drawn up by social services delivery, instability and "poverty" emotional fragility of women. Should know the details, but in Italy a few interested. It 's easier to crank it up with the clichés and prejudices, to blame the State and Justice, as if to make a single episode sfogatoio staff. And here are a must, two life stories.
G. , 7, walks every morning the paths of the school between the profanity of his mother, Italian stress, a litany that accompanies it until the entry into the classroom, from the looks of outraged do-gooders and unsuccessful attempts signal. Discomfort family, behavioral problems, dull eyes as he tries to play in the garden taking a beating classmates.
M., age 7, cook the sauce, taking care of the brother of two years, knows how to prepare pumpkin pie, as in the tradition of his country. The views have to go shopping with a teddy bear in her hands when night falls. It does not have a childhood, says that in his eyes.
At this age, the red tape they take away the right to live serenely side carefree life, the one where you should learn to dream. In these cases, all the do-gooders ready to invoke the reverse: why social services are not there? And the state? The State has failed?
This is not to judge, but to evaluate. Italy is always easy solutions at hand, and add, click. Motherhood is a right, but even more children .
Maybe you need is a change of perspective: the child at the center of interest, always.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Pub Golf Costumes Ideas
Italy "invented", between sentimentality and nostalgia
The League also advances in central Italy and Bossi calls for a immediate return to the polls. An underrated political phenomenon? It could say yes. In the late nineties, not long ago, in an interview with Paul Rumiz, Carlo Tullio Altan considered unlikely that the idea of \u200b\u200bPadania attecchisse Italian imagination so as to influence the social and political life.
Twelve years later, the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, the electoral weight of the League and the ability to influence through rhetoric and populist left many Italians clear picture of a country that remembers its own identity categories.
There was never time to "make Italians" or perhaps historical events have done to weaken the very idea of \u200b\u200bnation. Built on a weak and in constant oscillation between nostalgia and invention of tradition, Italy is increasingly fragmented in a sea of \u200b\u200blocal content pushed from politics 'shouted' League, the most obvious degeneration of the crisis of Italian culture, in which a South looks back to an idyllic past.
A fragile country, two marches, huddled in increasingly nostalgic patina, where globalization ends up local brands and no regrets. And just at the stage where we asked the Italian party system an effort to combat the crisis, Europe to accept the challenge, to give cohesion to the country, have lost the roles of mediation. Civil society will no longer feel represented, in a dizzying spiral, political parties, trade unions and social and cultural institutions have lost credibility.
We're used to seeing workers invent new forms of protest, the complete indifference of the institutions, journalists and intellectuals call for alternatives, the ones that should be part of a political program, the containment of the common people or the sudden anger solutions. In this context, bewildering, Italy "invented" traditions, to use Hobsbawm and Gellner, resumes or nostalgic reminiscences of a lost past, made of glory and success, using it in key highly emotional.
A magma
confused feelings and anxieties, which the Northern League has built a demagoguery made of demonizing the "enemy" generic and / or specific to merging the fears and doubts are often generated by the need to rethink the company. Now illegal immigrants, now the Community, thieving Rome first, then the mosques, cous cous, the Southerners, gays elsewhere.
A movement, the League, in fact no tradition with a program which combines the reference to the Celtic pagan rituals, such as water collected in a Po and paid in the Venice Lagoon, the construction of a ' region characterized by a Gallo-Italian language, rituals drawn from the past as the oath of Pontida.
In the end, always wins who plays on people's fears, because everyone prefers to call reality is that things that make him comfortable. Re-think the history of Italy starting from the premises and nostalgia?
Matvejevic would say that "the return to the past is only a chimera, the return of the past is a real tragedy." Imagine a past invented.
The League also advances in central Italy and Bossi calls for a immediate return to the polls. An underrated political phenomenon? It could say yes. In the late nineties, not long ago, in an interview with Paul Rumiz, Carlo Tullio Altan considered unlikely that the idea of \u200b\u200bPadania attecchisse Italian imagination so as to influence the social and political life.
Twelve years later, the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, the electoral weight of the League and the ability to influence through rhetoric and populist left many Italians clear picture of a country that remembers its own identity categories.
There was never time to "make Italians" or perhaps historical events have done to weaken the very idea of \u200b\u200bnation. Built on a weak and in constant oscillation between nostalgia and invention of tradition, Italy is increasingly fragmented in a sea of \u200b\u200blocal content pushed from politics 'shouted' League, the most obvious degeneration of the crisis of Italian culture, in which a South looks back to an idyllic past.
A fragile country, two marches, huddled in increasingly nostalgic patina, where globalization ends up local brands and no regrets. And just at the stage where we asked the Italian party system an effort to combat the crisis, Europe to accept the challenge, to give cohesion to the country, have lost the roles of mediation. Civil society will no longer feel represented, in a dizzying spiral, political parties, trade unions and social and cultural institutions have lost credibility.
We're used to seeing workers invent new forms of protest, the complete indifference of the institutions, journalists and intellectuals call for alternatives, the ones that should be part of a political program, the containment of the common people or the sudden anger solutions. In this context, bewildering, Italy "invented" traditions, to use Hobsbawm and Gellner, resumes or nostalgic reminiscences of a lost past, made of glory and success, using it in key highly emotional.
A magma
confused feelings and anxieties, which the Northern League has built a demagoguery made of demonizing the "enemy" generic and / or specific to merging the fears and doubts are often generated by the need to rethink the company. Now illegal immigrants, now the Community, thieving Rome first, then the mosques, cous cous, the Southerners, gays elsewhere.
A movement, the League, in fact no tradition with a program which combines the reference to the Celtic pagan rituals, such as water collected in a Po and paid in the Venice Lagoon, the construction of a ' region characterized by a Gallo-Italian language, rituals drawn from the past as the oath of Pontida.
In the end, always wins who plays on people's fears, because everyone prefers to call reality is that things that make him comfortable. Re-think the history of Italy starting from the premises and nostalgia?
Matvejevic would say that "the return to the past is only a chimera, the return of the past is a real tragedy." Imagine a past invented.
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