Adapted from "The Republic" ... The buffalo COMMENT
The comedy nonsense
Giuseppe D'Avanzo
In the novel "A Dirty Story" by Eric Ambler, a character, Arthur Abdel Simpson recalls the advice he had received from his father as a child. One of the first lessons was: "Never tell a lie when you can get by dint of crap." Today too we underestimate the amazing power of "bullshit" become for the public and especially in politics, which feeds on advertising slogans, a paradigm of government, a strategy of consensus. An authoritative
Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt Gordon, has written a delightful little book (Bullshit, Rizzoli) to conclude that "the essence of bullshit (bullshit) does not lie in false, but in being fake. "The distinction is useful for making sense of many kinds of government and certainly the river of words of Justice Minister, Angelino Alfano, before the framework of a 'unworthy of judicial administration for many young African states. "Who says bullshit counterfeit things," says Frankfurt. He's right. What's wrong with a counterfeit is not the issue, but the way in which it was produced.
The disaster of the Italian justice system is there for all to see, unchanged for decades, difficult to degrade the catastrophic budget. The processes are slow, unnecessary procedures captious, contradictory codes and fluid. The organizational model, governed by abstract rules and therefore not governed, only produces inefficiency. Resources are increasingly scarce (less than 40 percent for security and justice, this year) and leave the judges with no fax, computer expenses and discovered the bodies of the administrative staff of more than 15 percent of the deficit and in robes 80 in some courts in the South (as Gela). The inconsistency of a distribution of judicial offices scattered in 29 appellate courts, 164 courts and prosecutors' offices, in 29 juvenile justice courts and monitoring assigned to certain locations workloads or entirely unacceptable quantities to other weights. The flood of riformicchie, Cerottini and buffers, ad personam laws and precepts nonsense, change maps regulations in every season, canceling the same practical function of the process where it is powerless to exercise the rights and duties of defense and the prosecution. The ungrammatical jargon laws do the rest: breed confusion and deception, make the strong and cunning impunity, trample the weak and poor bastards.
This is the state of things and even a magician of advertising would be able to fake it too big to shoot. Drugs "bullshit" can only confuse the real reasons of the disease and make the false solutions to this disaster. E 'in previous years (2001/2006) with the right-wing government.
The abolition of the false accounting was to free businesses from unnecessary fastenings, the company law reform would make the economy more transparent, new limitation period would give speed the process, the rewriting of the judicial system would function better the "machine". With the voice of a minister (who in eight months has not yet prepared the text of a systemic reform or put his hand to a rethinking of the organizational or insured at least the toner to the printers), the new wave of "bullshit," he says today that this disaster will find solution to the regime governing intercepts stolen "finally" the toolbox of prosecutors, with the reform of the Constitution (God only knows what has to do), a greater presence of politics in the High Council of Magistracy (the policy) with a "team "of all actors to star in comedy of a mysterious script that no one yet knows why it has not been written yet.
"Bullshit", and yet would be a mistake to neglect the method and the results it collects. Unfit to solve only one of the critical issues of justice, that string of "nonsense", obsessively repeated, unable to erase from public discourse any point reference, every certainty, any concrete, even the slightest coherence between disease diagnosis and therapy. The government, after all, does not want to convince anyone of the validity of his recipe. He does not need. Has the potential to draw right on his way. He just wants to distract the public, raising dust, creating a radical contrast of views.
Each claim shall preclude a contrary (just look at a Tigga), a reasonable argument an insult to all truth clearly a fake. In the deafening noise increasingly dominating the debate on the troubles of the Italian justice, those who manage to get an idea that has to do with reality of this crisis? How, in this sea of \u200b\u200bhonking talk, they still want to see? And 'said the outcome of the intensive use of "bullshit" at the end makes its way "indifference to how things really are," wrote Frankfurt. It 'just that point of indifference, inattention, nausea that can give a free hand to the government.
We will understand only a few years, and painfully, how many ruins will be left behind this institutional vandalism. The destruction of the "judicial services" for citizens, a weak judiciary, an impoverished, codes with large meshes, the loosening of network assurance and control of public authorities leave the entire South in the hands of organized crime and mismanagement, the city unsafe, the most productive regions of the country turned into greedy target for crime, domestic and international markets without rules and controllers governed by the lobbies and conflicts' interest. The entire perimeter of the security of its citizens will be deprived of an acceptable supervision.
It 's the price we will pay the claim of the government to transform their will in direct political control to the judiciary, and even the process for judgments. It is a confirmation of the exemplary case of Eluana, pointed out in Milan yesterday by the prosecutor of the Court of Appeal Grechi. A "case" that threatens to trample fundamental rights, the right to human dignity, the right to health is a right to live but to die if you listen to the Constitution (Article 32, last paragraph): "The law can not in no case violate the limits imposed by respect for the human person. " There is another statement in the entire map so strong, said Stefano Rodota. Even personal freedom is tempered by law and subject to the reservation of jurisdiction. But here it is said in any case. That law (respect for the human person) can not be delivered to the decision of the legislature, let alone the government because "it is undecidable" and the guardian of this "indecisiveness" is the Constitutional Court and the judges. Still, the legitimate "Englaro ruling" that challenges the Supreme Court, the Review and the European Court is denied by the government, a fundamental right gives way to political command. They then peel off from the fundamentals of liberal democracy and our right to security is at stake in this conflict and should I look better without being blinded (and bored) by the "bullshit" the Minister of Justice.
( February 1, 2009 "The Repubblica" )
