For days now the entire media landscape Italian, and consequently the public, are fully, fairly boring and stubbornly focused on private matters and are not of "our" president Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. The newspapers, news broadcasts and so-called in-depth political whose only common denominator the interception of conversations between the components of the grotesque sleazy pimps and Berlusconi's harem and, alas, are not eunuchs who run it. The poverty of this view is obvious, but even more so when one considers that a few miles from our shores, on the shores of that Mediterranean incubator, cradle of our civilization and tutor at the same time you're playing a game historically decisive for the fate of the entire theater. A few scraps of news, at most a couple of pages of newspaper and hints
the radio are all the coverage given by our media to the blaze that is spreading in nord'Africa and began to burn even the consciousness of Yemen, a country historically stable politically because ultra-repressive. After this brief but necessary introduction, I'd like to share with the (few) readers of this blog enthusiasm, fibrillation and interest for those who must have had Arab history as the revolutions of 2011, which closely resembles the events that arose in Europe at the change-too-distant 1848. Let me be clear, my enthusiasm and my excitement is indeed no not caused by blood flowing unfortunately and inevitably flowing on the streets, nor the prospect that the head of some despot of these countries hang from the gallows, I think that this is inevitable and inextricably part of the corollary of events that accompany a revolution. The happiness I feel when I see those places filled with people is due instead to the feeling that finally the people of countries that, on paper, call themselves democrats, maybe not all at once, to obtain the long-awaited participation in public affairs in the West should be granted. Not that democracy is for sure the panacea for all evil, but so much so, that still passes the convent of the best devised by man to administer. The Mediterranean in revolt: against decades of dictatorship and parasitic hypocritical, untenable against a social situation, against the disappointment caused by the knowledge that land rich in resources are picked clean by vultures just hungry and against a West that, behind the flag now worn in the war on terrorism, has covered the crimes and abuses of various Ben Ali, Mubarack, Bouteflika, Saleh, strengthened by the support that Gaddafi and Assad in the first place Americans have yet to flourish undisturbed, against a population hungry for food and progress, and finally decided to break the banks of underdevelopment in which it was forced. If playing back the comments of Western leaders to the work of any of the above gentlemen, you realize how terribly false the values \u200b\u200bthat inform a decade from now the epic fight against terrorism. In these hours of course their concern is all directed at what will happen once ousted their standard-bearers of Arab secularism. Sure, put aside a good chance that Mubarak's Egypt, the largest and most important Arab country, home of the most influential Islamic university and the first Muslim-inspired political party, fall into the hands of fundamentalists. But if this were to happen, first should be criticized for their countries all along the thirty years of his reign
or allowed the Pharaoh to keep in ignorance and poverty in much of the population and to suppress without brake any hint of opposition or change, thus creating the ideal nutrient solution for the expansion of the virus of radical Islam, then that is nothing but the virus of extreme resentment towards some of the world that enjoys privileges denied to them. The proof of this is given by Tunisia, the country that paved the way to all the demands of these days: in the country where only a few days ago ruled Ben Ali, in spite of everything there is a high school completion rate, a good number of graduates and therefore a considerable mass of people who can think for themselves, which previously did not allow any political party and no religious movement to put the hat on their revolution. Why education does not always mean loss of their traditional culture and westernization. A spontaneous and conscious like that, exceptionally in contemporary art, is demanding more rights and more prosperity in all countries of North Africa is something new and wonderful. Just like in Europe in 1848 when it seemed that everything could happen and people down the streets of most of the capitals of the old continent to demand change that for many countries, unfortunately, came only after many decades. Today, however, the information on the network run fast, and that we are seeing is the first call to the international outcry quasin occurred exclusively on the Internet. It 's more difficult for those in power to control a network of contacts so extensive compared to a few newspapers and TV. Power of modernity, and the good side of the net. Twitter and other social networks are flocking to the comments and appeals not to give ordinary citizens and intellectuals, are usvcire pictures and news about police behavior in the demonstrations, have been meeting sul prossimo assembramento che poi diventerà un nuovo corteo. Una vera e propria dimostrazione di come spesso i governati siano ben più avanti dei propri governanti che non riescono in nessun modo a sedare la protesta. Spero che tutto ciò continui, se non alro per spronare coloro che governano i paesi in questione a fare concessioni sempre più alte e per arrivare al più presto ad una forma di governo non dispotico e partecipato.
E come non paragonare , o meglio, mettere in relazione ciò che sta accadendo per le strade di Tunisi, Algeri, il Cairo, Beirut, Tripoli, Damasco e San'a con gli avvenimenti che in autunno hanno riempito le piazze delle più grandi città europee come Londra, Parigi, Roma e Atene. Da una parte si lotta per la vita e per iniziare a contare, mentre dall'altra si lotta per contare di più, ma dall'alto al basso Mediterraneo fino ad arrivare al mare del nord la vampa è ben viva e rischia finalmente di incendiare le coscenze del nuovo millennio, purtroppo iniziato con l'11 settembre e la lotta al terrorismo.
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