Roberto Benigni and the times that change: how much do we manage to follow a 5 -minute monologue on TV today?

This article will not analyze what Roberto Benigni He said in prime time on Rai1 about nationalism, Europe, Garibaldi and Ventotene Manifesto, but will focus on another question: How much can we stay focused on a monologue that exceeds five minutes on television? Let’s think well: regardless of the personal tastes inherent in the content, up to 15 years ago we managed to follow long and articulated interventions such as those proposed by Benigni, who every time he intervened on television raised the listening and share that even Alba Parietti, sitting on the sofa without ever losing the thread.

Today, struggling with a smartphone that either rings continuously or we cannot help but check to know who wrote us and what the others have posted, it is already so much if we do not get lost in the fifth subordinate. The problem is very simple: we are much more distracted than we were before, which would explain why The hyenas Promote monologues exactly 60 seconds longthat is, the time of a reel comfortably exportable and shareable on social networks, and why we now consume the podcasts more and more while walking, guiding or corraring on the treadmill, without paying them the attention they deserve.

Roberto BenigniMaurizio D’Avanzo Press Office / IPA-AGENCY.NET

The words and vocabulary that have made our language great are, unfortunately, imposing, and the fault lies with all of us. Of us who struggle to remain concentrated on the speeches that others make us at the table, but also of us who We are so lazy that to communicate two sentences we no longer type the letters but we send a vowelincreasingly inhibiting our faculty to organize a thought. Roberto Benigni may like as it cannot please, but there is no doubt that he knows how to put the words in line in the right way, and it is a pity that many scag against those words by party taken, without really listening to them.