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The
Spanish philosopher-populizer Fernando Savater may be right as regard
to chatter: it's a maatter if gossips, not necessarily by the Marry
Wives of Windsor, made it, another matter if it is Flaubert by the means
of Madame Bovary.
He
said that as regard to the television phenomenon of the moment, that
“big brother “ on arrive in Italy after having made - I believe- damages
elsewhere. It's that format that, by giving an imitation of the formidable
Weir's picture, Truman Show, in reality upsets it and introduces, into
a stupid great pigout of images, actors, public, the whole mass media
mechanism.
Is
it at matter with the rising of Internet sites devoted to gossip, different
levels (I think about the sites of D'Agostino, Palombelli, the “evening
barber” etc.)? And is it at matter with the suffragette fervour of the
same Palombelli that, met by a writer that for months sent her by e-mail
false letters and then reveals, letters to which Barbara answered always
with true passion even on “Repubblica”, declaring enthusiastically:
what's the matter if they were false, they were plausible, and thanks
to Internet (substantially) I fly!!!? All's the matter with all.
Since, you see, that gossip is the clinging form communication, the
most ancient all over the world, a sort of fatal prostitution, well
then, there's no doubt. But today, Flaubert or not Flaubert, D'Agostino
or not D'Agostino, the point is that it is lacking, if it is not over
at all, the real communication, the authoritative, sure communication,
and on the other side it has faded the communication searched for and
not released of reporters, the surveys of the communication means, the
curiosity of reporters for things and not for mere words that replace
things. All that is not simply valuable as a sign of the times, good
or ill: it concerns instead a deep changing signal in quality and quantity
of human relationships, provided that communication is together the
effect and the cause.
In brief everything will be a gossip, but we will pretend to call it
by other names, to re-evaluate it and not be shy onomastically. An information
without rules and control, without check and the benefit of doubt, a
communication turning us substantially passive making us feeling gossipy
active: nothing better to keep steady a status quo, to keep away at
all any critic velleities to the ersatz conscience there's about. All
that under the shield of Internet, that being the new, means tout court
the free...But when and where, my dears...
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