The following article Godfrey is Fofi, an intellectual who deserves esteem and respect. shareability In its acumen and substantial, but the article leaves me uneasy background. It repeats after all, the point of view of the mandarins of the European intelligentsia, who have lived more democracy on the books that actually practiced. Also, do not give up the comfort firmness of "bias" of historical analysis overall, just faded in the end. It could be taken as a starting point for a reflection on the reflection of European intellectuals around the American myth, the style of Pierre Bourdieu. But there is no room for that now. Happy reading .
The misunderstanding of the American myth
Goffredo Fofi, of Unity, April 11, 2010
When you say America means the United States for centuries, it means the United States of the North, and also If Mexico, Argentina, Brazil United States of America, speaking of Americans say the U.S. "U.S." seems more correct to say that "Americans". America is a huge continent divided into North, Central and South America, with North America (excluding Mexico) of the Protestant tradition and the Center and South of the Catholic tradition but still with a strong dominant mestizo, however, that in many countries has not loved at all, and does not love his Indians.
As it is, we know that the number one power in the Americas remains the U.S., we know that, even today and despite the competition before Japan and now China, the U.S. remains the greatest world power, especially after the collapse of the USSR (and its lifestyle, its ideology), and we know equally well that the United States to first have institutionalized and then exported and implemented in the world, raising a strong resistance only in the Islamic, recently a model of society and human behavior, habits common which is commonly called the "American way of life." Islamic fundamentalism is only understandable if you think of cultures that, despite all their limitations, they can not develop inside them if not referring to the American model, American blackmail.
In the seventies, after the failure of the anti-imperialist revolts generous in almost all the planet, including therefore Italy of students and workers, and the years of the first withdrawal of a generation to itself, licking the wounds of defeat and to marry or be subjected to the "culture of narcissism", in the film Over the years, Wim Wenders, a director since then too loved (and I was personally a big pain, weakened by growing irritation, follow the inexorable decline of that lewd and lately director) tells the story of two misfits "veterans" of those movements on the road, one of whom spoke a great truth "The Americans have colonized the unconscious." But it was not only unconscious, it was almost everything.
The Americans have imposed on the world maybe the world what he wanted: the idea of \u200b\u200ban easement by being comforted and distracted by the media, which, so obsessive and redundant, let us say disgustingly ubiquitous and totalitarian, have invaded the public as private, have done the American way of life a single thought acceptable to all. The individual disappears, also said that it is still only in the act of individual consumption. This model is entered into the unconscious of all, no one can be declared free. Even the Church fell kindly to terms with the capitalist model, which is good to see the more secular and even atheist in spite of all the frenzy of his fundamentalist sects and many of its leaders, after furious fighting communism and not enough against the fascist. He resisted any institution created by World War II, perhaps taking a pickaxe today by most American of Italian, dear Berlusconi. (But to be honest, we've had in recent decades perhaps, in Italy, a politician who resigned more than a national or European models and the most pro-American by Walter Veltroni?)
few years ago, in a polished speech, "said Susan Sontag that the U.S. had spread worldwide plague, and probably of the plague this world would be dead. Despite all the love and our debt of gratitude for so many minorities Use ethical, religious, social art, despite the hopes of democracy (the dream) John Dewey and Hannah Arendt, despite the Fed's ability to absorb and integrate the long run (but after many sorrows!), its ethnic minorities, if the target moves away and looks at long-range or long, it seems impossible not realize that the "American model" - and the banks and corporations and armies that have spread prosper - will remain an enemy or a friend of democracy. In place of the individual consumer, instead of thinking the binge media, instead of opening sympathetic selfishness and even autism, instead of free advertising.
With all due respect to Obama, start to think, for the Italian left can only mean to think independently and not "American."
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