Stories and News No. 290
We make pictures of the facts, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said.
I think it is true more than ever looking at the visual story of what happened yesterday and that perhaps is happening in Italy since immemorial time.
What I am talking about is before our eyes every day, in a lot of moments which many of us have become accustomed to.
It is normal and normality is seen in the news as anything but for what it actually represents.
So it becomes background noise, the background scenery, the background desktop of our personal monitor.
The problem is that when it starts to show brutal violence and irrepressible hatred sooner or later the time comes that the boundaries break and that background becomes our one and only world.
At that point it is too late to move and breathe a sigh of relief because once again we are not victims.
We can no longer change the channel.
There is no longer a Facebook to retreat to.
From Wikipedia, a civil war is: a war between organized groups within the same nation state...
I think it is true more than ever looking at the visual story of what happened yesterday and that perhaps is happening in Italy since immemorial time.
What I am talking about is before our eyes every day, in a lot of moments which many of us have become accustomed to.
It is normal and normality is seen in the news as anything but for what it actually represents.
So it becomes background noise, the background scenery, the background desktop of our personal monitor.
The problem is that when it starts to show brutal violence and irrepressible hatred sooner or later the time comes that the boundaries break and that background becomes our one and only world.
At that point it is too late to move and breathe a sigh of relief because once again we are not victims.
We can no longer change the channel.
There is no longer a Facebook to retreat to.
From Wikipedia, a civil war is: a war between organized groups within the same nation state...
The Story:
In war, truth is the first victim (Aeschylus):
The Guardia di Finanza "The financier guard, who was harassed by dozens of rioters, had already been deprived of his helmet and radio, and the protesters wanted to seize his gun. He has courageously defended the weapon and he never used it.".
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The war is a so immense disaster, its outcome is so uncertain and the consequences for a country are so catastrophic, that rulers will never have enough thought before embarking on (Frederick the Great)::
Minister Maroni: "It has been good. Someone could be dead."
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One of the most horrible features of war is that the war propaganda, all vociferations, lies, hatred, they all inevitably come from those who do not fight (George Orwell):
Silvio Berlusconi: "Yesterday we saw a bad image for the country, a guerrilla by bands and organized thugs."
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War is business (Evelyn Waugh):
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War is the unlimited use of brute force (Carl von Clausewitz):
Bondi: "After the defeat of today you should go and hide!"
Bocchino: "You took your whole family to the Ministry!"
Bocchino: "You took your whole family to the Ministry!"
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And finally...
As in the days of spears and swords, so today's era of missiles, before the arms, is the heart of man to kill (John Paul II):
Stories and news: “invented” Stories, fruit of my imagination, inspired by “true” media News.
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