Economic crisis, earthquakes, emergency intervention, bailouts. There are at least three per day during this period that probably is quite extraordinary. But there is something that is dragged behind the rush and was still little studied: the growing authoritarianism. Power to those who have it, seems to be the watchword. And everything is reflection, analysis, debate, study of alternative options available it becomes a useless waste of time. The message of the head is one, the only, the best possible. The next step is that anyone who does in fact make this situation becomes, looking worn, unpatriotic. Being united in diffficoltà becomes obliged to reduce the thought to one.
In Italy we see with Berlusconi and his attempt to drain the powers of Parliament but also the press, which comes under attack when he speaks of international gaffe of the Prime Minister or what could be done and has not been made in Abruzzo. A quick trip to Paris with the reading of the satirical weekly "Le Canard enchainé" brought me back to the sad reality that the world is country. During the G20, in fact, the French newspapers have chosen silence on Sarkozy on tiptoe in the official photo with Obama to try to bridge the 25 cm good to separate them. This is obviously nonsense. But if you can not speak ill of the Chapter on scicchezze, much less serious matters. The exercise of power becomes the pursuit of their own authority and the one with the decision maker.
