Religious Trauma Healing

It was pity to see a bar row spoil a couple's little tête-à-tête in Rome yesterday (the couple presumably belonged to one of these modern Catholic social movements, Comunione e Liberazione). A thirty-something man unleashed a succession of uppercut punches after arguing with a younger man over a “boorish” (coatto!) and offensive behavior against a woman. The poor little couple left quickly. It was a mix of her being embarrassed because of what her boyfriend had been saying about the necessity for people to present themselves perfect before God (I'm pretty sure it came from one of the epistles of the New Testament) and her trauma for having come face to face with the sheer brutality of life.

Setting up for infidelity

As much as I love Italy I've got to say that the rest of the world is what I like the best. I'm always making a huge mistake getting too comfy in this cocky, arrogant, rude country. Believing that the Italian  joie de vivre is what equates to be content is a false and delusional assumption. If the belief is that answers to discontent can be resolved by finding and enjoying stable love story, relationships are set up for failure. I love Italian beaches ad pizzas but that has to compete for first prize with Swiss chocolate and the alpine glow in the Austrian mountains at sunset.

Establishing contact with garbage

Italy is virtually unaware of its social motivations and political texture let alone the incapacity of competing with the real giants. A comedian is allowed to whittle away the international agenda if the agenda is understood to be theatrical. If one tried to convince the Germans or the French or the British that the Italians do their best to develop better thinking skills so that every thought and decision is improved they would be every bit as mystified and horrified as the Italians are by the German or French or British lack of farcical energy.

More on Italian public bigotry perpetuation

The public outrage sparked by the first all-male kiss aired on one of the RAI channels was in the air. “The country is not ready!” The convenient, neck-saving thing for the bigots to say and their main axiom once again were the same.

Self preservation is what is at stake here. Bigots have only one goal in mind: produce their shit as long as possible and prosper on it. At the expense of everything else. Like Beelzebub they aren’t megalomaniacal as much as manipulative and amoral, but unlike him they do most everything without any great deal of understatement or humor, and consider the territorial and political ‘agenda’ to be just that which is required by pure hatrage. They represent something of a middle ground between statics and dynamics. They can only be analyzed with the help of a formal dichotomy. There is no drug that can tamp down their hallucinations and delusions. They belong to psichiatry, and one should never interfere with psychiatry when only psichiatry has the answer.

'Now bugger off''. On Italian bigotry.

It's funny how a few petty bigots have a whole country on tenterhooks. They just cannot leave their noses out of things. There's a bigger world out there and their little narrow view on how it should work is getting in the way of the big picture. The country must be sick of their games but I think it puts up with it because it’s gradually understanding how deep stupidity runs through. Besides, the non-bigots are in their own bubble at the moment to even think about anyone's lack of integrity but their own. No sign that they will shut these bigots down epically. No hope that this disgusting television scrutiny of a bunch of sectarians ends soon because nobody really wants them to bugger off.