The memorial WAR: PROPAGANDA TOOLS SOLID YESTERDAY, TODAY THE SWAN SONG FOR THE COMMON
Lorenzo Aquilino
Villabate Piazza della Regione. Along two marbles embedded in the wall of the bandstand overlooking the course, scroll through the names of the victims villabatesi the Great War. This is not news, nor Villabate, or of modern times, the commemoration for propaganda purposes.
The conflict has engulfed the '15-'18 officers, commissioned officers, civilians. And more often than soldiers, cannon fodder, then profits as heroes. For freedom (a term used with great pomp on the tombstones) that you do not understand where you can find support. Italy and Austria had not been invaded in the first instance, opted for a happier neutrality.
aside the objections of merit and modern and common disgust with patriotic rhetoric, it remains to speak of the maker of such language. E 'policy, once good at plucking the strings of patriotism, like guitar docile Arpeggiator. And the melody flowed, but not enough to assuage the grief, it was enough to woo the popular common sense, accustomed to the rhetoric, the war.
And the hand that shapes the stones of the square belongs to the policy of the Second World War. The politics of mass parties, passions, people dripping with rallies, slogans. The politics of participation, sections of ideologies. All true, but woe to remember it as the Land of Toys! It was not, and yet today, as a ghost, shaking the sleep of politicians of today, younger sons of the world that no longer exists.
And the political horizon today, not to give in to the sunset, look for a glimmer of light ... his own death. And do not miss material. Rivers of dead bodies from Iraq and Afghanistan, invaded, with their full names made up of municipalities, streets and squares throughout Italy. Almost no more towns or cities that have not a shred of asphalt dedicated to the fallen of Nasiriyah. If heroes or, more modestly, victims, have decided the ideological disputes, rather than common sense or compassion. And that's not to be Villabate exception to the rule is queued with the intention to dedicate Apparently, the plaza outside the City to the memory of the heroes of Nasiriyah. " So we read on the official website of the City of Villabate Section Press Releases of November 2007.
And waiting for the solemn event, the Administration has remade the trick in Piazza Umberto I ˚. Kiosk in front of a yellow color, but again far from dubious value, rises over a block of marble, but white with streaks of gray. There are names carved, became worse. "Intrepid runs over to the attraction of the homeland with a single credo: better than life, freedom." Here are the words in memory of the fallen villabatesi of the two great conflicts of the 900. Newly opened The monument can already show a typical Sicilian curse word, you draw with the pen by an unknown hand. Almost a hat on the head of a body born wrong.
And the body of the policy, which also wants to eat, to survive itself, residual regurgitation patriotic people, is a victim of indifference. Cries of ridicule carved with words that enchant little and very indignant. Beginning in the same deaths. Hard to imagine (though with some exceptions) trampling of patriotism on the train to the front. Today they are deprived of normal tragic death of their nakedness. That yes, worthy of a plaque.
Perhaps they would like to be remembered as victims of criminal human folly. And politics human, without insanity, now reinvented them heroes.
Just as the deaths of Nasiriyah. Villabate waits, anxiously, to know how they will be remembered. Although it already has its good suspects ...
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