So, not just suddenly but with the set of amazement that leaves us dumbfounded, we find the irrational under the house and close to us, with a piece of Italy that believes the incredible and imagines being able to find comfort and support in thought magical, unscientific, denier. It is a piece of Italy that is photographed by the latest Censis report and that is frightening.
6 percent, equal to about 3 million citizens, simply think that Covid does not exist, there are no more than one hundred thousand victims because the result of “other” deaths, there are no variants and intensive care: all hoaxes invented by “power “To cheat and condition. If possible, even more amazing is the numerically similar percentage of those who believe that the Earth is flat, an extreme and all-encompassing rejection of any physical evidence. Let it appear in perfect alignment with the other over ten percent rejecting the greatest space feat of all: man’s arrival on the moon. A fake and decisive epic: if we have never set foot on the satellite, there can be no photographs of the planet in round form. Of course: they are all lies made up to fool us and mind their own business.
You can smile with disdain and a shrug of the shoulders at these denials of reality, and you can also dismiss them as nonsense professed by those who instead of the metropolises dream of returning to the caves, as a certain local intelligentsia seems to do, which has always cultivated another attitude. from myth and refines its stylistic features: the stench under the nose.
Instead we can’t help but worry. Perhaps the percentages may appear excessive, yet they photograph not only the bizarre features but above all the soul of millions of Italians who have taken for granted the nonsense circulating on social media and believed in the bad teachers who lurk everywhere, some even in the Palazzo.
There is a not so negligible part of Italians who can no longer identify with the positive and consoling narrative that it is possible to find solutions to problems. And that not only disputes the solutions but completely denies the problems. Thought is magical, but it is the black magic of macumbe and bleach enemas: and the result can only be death. What to do with these people
How and what should the rest of society behave, what task the institutions have towards them
Thinking of convincing them and – staying in the lunar field -. It is therefore necessary to force them to get vaccinated, to watch TV documentaries on astronauts, to prevent them from buying detergents if they do not first show the Green Pass.
The truth is that this mass attracted by witchcraft more than by white coats questions all of us who instead believe in science and ask governments for effective and decisive interventions.
And people who for decades have been indoctrinated on the basis of deliberately stunning theories and attitudes because they raised the audience, titled the likes, inflated their impulses to fame until they were drunk. The “magic ones” are the fruit of the propaganda that promises and ensures salvific measures, totalizing palingenesis, astonishing interventions as well as perpetually against “them”.
And then when those prophecies are not fulfilled they cause so much frustration as to move towards the unreasonable, towards the absolute refusal which is so much more unsettling and so much more true in the soul becoming as well as credible, pronounceable. Identifying in particular, like a medal, a distinctive sign: of the refusal to belong to the rest of the rational world which only wants to restrict the freedom to think and act.
The pandemic has revealed and paradoxically strengthened these feelings but the virus has been hatching for some time and deeply in the universe of citizenship. And the disease not of ignorance but of despair. The more civilized and stronger a society is, the more it deals with the desperate. The how has no alternative: and democracy. With its flaws and limitations but also with the strength of its own reasons and decision-making skills.
In order not to stay in hyperuranium and to give a concrete example, let’s say that the Draghi government’s choice not to proceed with compulsory vaccination lies here, in the delicacy of not fomenting the pressures of irrationality. Then you can also get there because if necessary democracy is also defended with constraints. But woe to underestimate or ignore irrationality. It is the same mixture, the same propellant that in the last century led to two world wars.
