During the speech delivered by Casini, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, in Bettino Craxi’s honour (a necessary gesture aimed at moral and social rehabilitation), our mind flew back to a book read many years ago: “La loi de la change”.
The author of the book, possibly recalling the slogan chanted during the French Revolution, maintains that equality does not exist, it is a utopia, whereas everything in life depends on the share of luck each one is endowed with; this luck is responsible for the strange coincidences which occur throughout the life of an individual and which may either be favourable or unfavourable; through a range of often paradoxical examples, the author demonstrates that not even in death is there equality: nobody “lives his death” in the same way and at the same time, least of all when he finds himself lying under twenty inches of earth; he thus refutes Totò’s argument in his poem “La livella”.
For instance, only after his death, has Craxi become a victim of injustice who is due complete social rehabilitation; for the other victims of the same injustice there has been silence and no rehabilitation, almost as if their death had been purely fortuitous. Equality has been the utopia of the latest centuries, but equality neither exists during life nor after death: it is only manipulated by those who can turn it to their advantage for the very reason that they are not equal to others.
Oliviero Beha’s article, on page 61, deals with information freedom and plurality, which in our opinion falls within our many utopias and, as such, will never be achieved. Our experience in conveying information that is unrestricted by external influences leads us to realistically acknowledge that information will always and in any case be mediated by the personal culture, the individual experiences, the environmental influences and so on, of the author who puts the information across.
Dear Oliviero, it is already something if we are able to clearly identify which are the labelled media, so that each of us can choose those which are most in keeping with our convictions, whether right or wrong.
A parliamentary committee is being constituted to inquire into the period known as Tangentopoli. Mind you! The committee is not only to investigate any justicialist deviations by the magistrates, but its brief also includes tracing corruption back to its origins. It will be interesting to read the dating of such origins.
According to the Holy Scriptures, the first corruptor was the serpent that tempted Eve, by offering her the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden; we do not feel this is the case for the point at issue, or the results of the enquiry will only be received by future generations.
The latest corruption, which has subsequently become a fully metastatic cancer, started at the time of the banana scandal.
Yes, that’s right! That was when the Honourable Mr Ugo La Malfa stated (we cannot remember whether in Parliament or during an interview) that “accepting money for the party is not a crime”. Unfortunately he did not mention whether the same rule applied to giving money to a party.
Equivocation lies entirely here: for years magistracy has kept silent, until somebody has insisted on changing the rules, but this was a utopian plan, in that since the beginning of time, as skilled people know, there’s always a fool who gives and a sly one who takes.

(translated by INTERPRES)