Marcio on Rome

With that “unpunished” expression of someone who hasn’t slapped someone, the old Roman “beam” broke into the curve of the Olympic stadium, jeans disjointed from head to toe, windshield glasses, eager as a monkey to screw everyone. Because he had seen and glimpsed everything: catatonic schools, prevailing unemployment, peripheral housing, two lire of salary. “Er core de Roma nun se regulates” and whirled his skull like a club, overturning an “active ignorance”, therefore a language rich in sadistic ferments, therefore a phenomenon of psychological irreducibility and social incurability, justification of the 1st commandment of the city : «Made them your cocks». The 2nd reads: “What the fuck I was watching from?”. The 3rd is definitive: «Me rimbarza». The other seven? They do not count. The strength of the Capitoline intestine, «ignorant with the bronzer, abundant between the underpants» (copyright Er Piotta): «Ah, I like China num me! But not because he is a communist, I adore Moscow … num I like it because there is nothing that interests me ». Beware, though: the wind is turned and in recent years the “fasces-forced” youth phenomenon, between a Roman greeting and an act of irrational violence, has been triggered by the bomb of a multitude, above all of the middle and petty bourgeois class, that froths of racism and anti-Semitism, that has lost the ability to remember the recent past, let alone history. Yet he lives in the city he just mentioned on October 16, 1943, when 1,024 Roman Jews were deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis with the complicity of the fascists. Only 16 returned. A wound that still bleeds, an indelible shame, daughter of the racial laws of 1938. How was this “Marcio su Roma” born? What Umberto Eco called “eternal fascism” is back in more innocent guise, in a pullover and suit, far from the leather vests of nostalgic trucidae of the baton and subversive movements like Forza Nuova. Taking the stage is the small and medium-sized bourgeoisie that once voted for Christian Democracy and today has become a receptacle for populist regurgitation, obsessed, through the pandemic, by conspiracy theories. There is a link between uncertainty, anxiety and depression and the right-handed explosion of no-vax and no-green pass, in which the emotional response of some can be presented and accepted as the “voice of the people” who must oppose the “rotten” governments, the “rogues” of Big Pharma, the “conspiracy” of the International Powers. The World Health Organization calls it “infodemic,” when Facebook influencers and algorithms lure vulnerable people underground through Internet tunnels. Yes, you can play fascism in many ways, with an app and mouse instead of the Duce, because fascism is part of the history of humanity, and will always be part of it.