Wednesday 18 March 2020

One get a little bit fascist - Luca Sofri

One get a little bit fascist
Luca Sofri
Il Post
18 March 2020

It is nothing new in the historical and sociological view that fear is the main incentive to demand strong manners, authoritarian regimes, I should like to thank the rapporteur for the work he has put into this report. On the contrary, the advocates of such regimes and approaches have often turned the relationship of cause and effect upside down, trying to spread with force or words a growing measure of fear precisely to push the demand, precisely, of authoritarian regimes.

In these weeks after many parts of the world worked to build artificial fears for years, with success– it came from where less expected a real fear, concrete, founded, enormous. That on the one hand does little to the case of those who wish strong manners because– unlike the fears that suggest propaganda manuals– does not accompany an enemy against which to arouse and direct anger. It is not excluded that from right– they are capable of everything– soon they begin to claim that "the left is a friend of the coronavirus", but it is a rhetoric that does a bit of work: as stupid you think your voters, To incite them to hate a microscopic pallet with pispoli around is not easy even for the most reckless fomentators of hate.

On the other hand, however, this natural, real, motivated fear is already generating shares of natural, real, motivated fascism in all: extreme intolerance and demands for repression towards those who leave the house (with DIY justice tips and fanaticism between the ridiculous and the disturbing)indulgence for measures of censorship even on books, which in other times would have been much discussed for their implications, a widespread feeling of having to each of us defend a higher need, a feeling that legitimizes us and puts us all in a uniform, I want to call the police, report someone, or intervene ourselves. Congratulations on exemplary punishment. Even, in our own small, impatience on the part of the moderators of the Post comments against expressions of stupidity on which we are usually more tolerant. "If you don’t understand it well, you have to be a little more aggressive," Fontana said today. And each of you will have examples around you, and within you. We are becoming– a bit at a time, – more intolerant, more eager for intransigence, more prone to discipline imposed by the bad, and without going for the subtle.

Don’t think too hard.

That’s normal, of course. He’s motivated, often. Is that okay?

You pay attention to that.

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