Instead of sweet drops of champagne on the face I have always preferred to lick bitter tears. When it is time to celebrate, I am already elsewhere. Anytime you celebrate something, you forget dark corners. And I prefer to see reality from dark corners than being under spotlights. Not because I am shy. Normally I am not. But just because I rather prefer to know what it is hidden in dark corners, and there is where I like to be.
Maybe that's why when in Tunis people where celebrating the fall of the regime, I was wandering in the dark alleys of Naples. And today that in Naples (and Milan) people are celebrating the victory of the leftist candidate on a "de facto" regime, I am wandering in the dark alleys of Tunis. Allergy to happiness? Faith in a minor god? Weak thinking?
Not exactly. I think reality is often not what we can see. So that, celebrations are not an accomplishment of reality but rather a kind of collective rave. And if I really need some buzz, I stay far from politics.
It's still not time to take stock of this trip in Tunisia. I want to come home and reorder my thoughts. However, the elections for the Constituent Committee scheduled for july were postponed to october a few days ago. People didn't react. In the same days, Obama announced an aid plan for $ 40 billion to the arab spring. Neighborhood popular committees are dismissed, the fig leaves have fallen in spring, this year. The leftist european social democrats say that the bourgeoisie is necessary to ferry the arab countries outside the murky waters of dictatorship. Except that they have also always supported those dictatorships. Meanwhile Tunisians now are remembering that general Rachid Ammar, chief of the army, was always a close friend of CIA. And now, that the work is accomplished, people know that the army, which supported protesters, now instead, would shoot.
Gattopardos (leopards) enjoy good health in Tunisia and are already celebrating with champagne, once again. While people are starting crying in the dark corners, once again.
Thus, my Italian friends, forgive me if I am not there to celebrate with you today. Gattopardos prefer to sit on soft pillows instead of rotten benches. And don't save any champagne for me. My tears are enough.
Maybe that's why when in Tunis people where celebrating the fall of the regime, I was wandering in the dark alleys of Naples. And today that in Naples (and Milan) people are celebrating the victory of the leftist candidate on a "de facto" regime, I am wandering in the dark alleys of Tunis. Allergy to happiness? Faith in a minor god? Weak thinking?
Not exactly. I think reality is often not what we can see. So that, celebrations are not an accomplishment of reality but rather a kind of collective rave. And if I really need some buzz, I stay far from politics.
It's still not time to take stock of this trip in Tunisia. I want to come home and reorder my thoughts. However, the elections for the Constituent Committee scheduled for july were postponed to october a few days ago. People didn't react. In the same days, Obama announced an aid plan for $ 40 billion to the arab spring. Neighborhood popular committees are dismissed, the fig leaves have fallen in spring, this year. The leftist european social democrats say that the bourgeoisie is necessary to ferry the arab countries outside the murky waters of dictatorship. Except that they have also always supported those dictatorships. Meanwhile Tunisians now are remembering that general Rachid Ammar, chief of the army, was always a close friend of CIA. And now, that the work is accomplished, people know that the army, which supported protesters, now instead, would shoot.
Gattopardos (leopards) enjoy good health in Tunisia and are already celebrating with champagne, once again. While people are starting crying in the dark corners, once again.
Thus, my Italian friends, forgive me if I am not there to celebrate with you today. Gattopardos prefer to sit on soft pillows instead of rotten benches. And don't save any champagne for me. My tears are enough.
Interesting links:
for Italian readers (when blind eyes don't benefit to the rightists, sometimes even they can say interesting things):
