Time reported a few days ago, on the student demonstrations in recent days, one of the most powerful writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini (PPP), dated June 16, 1968 , which concerns the protests that year invested in the Faculty of Architecture at La Sapienza University in Rome. Pasolini shows, in a lucid and poetic collection, a contradiction between those who protested, although part of the bourgeoisie (the students) and those who suppressed the protests, although part of the proletariat (the police). Between the two sides, the author chooses the working class, pointing students to be the spoiled children. Such an accusation brought forward just to be contextualized by Pasolini, today, very carefully to be understood, but at the time, this step is completely missing. I do not want to imply that the text has been published without being understood, but I f orte suspect was released without being been read.
The provocative nature of the writing is clear to anyone with a minimal idea of \u200b\u200bthe cultural process of PPP. The contradictions which he points out are a clear proof. The prophetic character and enlightening, invest there, it's harder to understand. The defense of the police attack on students and arguments are easy to misinterpret and exploit. This is exactly the one that makes bre journalist Mario Sechi inviting students to learn the lesson of PPP: Go home and study instead of wasting time to complain unnecessarily looks more like a comment from senior a lesson Pasolini. The rest of the editorial is divided into an accusation rather confusing to students, with references to "the reality crystallized" in the words of the poet and the "world of duties", to much trouble at the wrong even Darwinian evolution.
the avoidance of doubt we read the text of Pasolini and we realize that his hatred is not directed to the protests themselves, on the contrary, defines "right" or even "late". The element which he stresses is the social difference between the warring parties, urging students not to attack the mere executors ("police boys"), innocent victims lasted for generations of social conditioning, rather than to take responsibility to combat the "Judiciary", or those who had armed hands and those minds had disarmed.
is an old story: there are many to benefit from the minds disarmed. To feed them enough to voice platitudes and petty arguments, perhaps masked behind courtly trivialized and misunderstood quotes. Syllogism as the abuse that saw the protesters as opposed to the diligent students lazy fuoricorso model concept was never far from the words of Pasolini (and reality). The thinking can take hold, of course, only on a populace that has no idea what the universities, especially public especially in Italy. Even Fini is worrisome "when students like lemmings will not have their own idea."
Unfortunately we are still a country that considers the university a waste of time, the preserve of the lucky few who manage to escape the job. Mario Sechi obviously no exception. Shame that the streets there were all those uninformed slackers that someone wanted to, but students and researchers and professors: active citizens, which, while not to be lemmings not only to study and advocate the right to study, but informed by going directly to the sources and the debates network. A declaration of independence from the state television and from information that is becoming increasingly a social phenomenon. According to psychiatrists Andoh and Mascellani fact increase the percentage of teenagers who will inform the network rather than watching television.
The data is comforting because, with all its faults, the Internet is "an extraordinary window on the world and contributes to the cultural enrichment" ( A. Ugazio ). Its diversity is a sign of complexity and learn to manage the complexity of reality is the only way that the are lower social strata of society to gain power, at least on themselves. It is what they are cer Cando to the boys in the streets-I saw-occupying monuments and events. Let's not leave unheard. Not the hypocritical cry of students against bourgeois proletarian workers, but that, messy and uncertain, perhaps, of those who struggle to escape from cultural, and social ignorance. To look good, again, is a struggle ... class!
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