Dear Felt Director,
Words that touch Robert De Niro’s heart, who will receive yet another prize in Cannes, the golden palm: “While the world is divided, Cannes unites us”. “I go home …” It will probably say the same things when he will take (mathematical) the golden lion in Venice. I wonder how it is possible that these artists or letters or left -wing politicians do not realize that most of the awards are given to them because they are part of a caste. He pointed out Andrea Scanzi that there are no artists or literati on the right. He is right. Forget to say that if they declared their ideas, they would have finished working. Because those of the left, with this terrible Meloni government, nobody touches them. On the contrary, they are trouble. Stopping working is the least. Threats, obstructions are on the agenda. If, for a pure chance, someone left has a flicker, and says something not welcome, ditto. This is the case, but there are others, of the cartoonist Vauro Senesi. Three years ago he dared to say that Putin was not wrong. We haven’t seen it anymore anywhere.
Best regards
Giordano Citterio
Dear Giordano,
Being right makes life and above all the career much more complicated, in any area, all the more in the artistic one in the broad sense. But even in journalism this occurs: those who express opinions that do not align in fact are ghettoized and indicated as a lower colleague, certainly ignorant, brute and rough. Singers, actors, painters are careful not to proclaim their political ideas when they do not correspond to that conformism of thought, typically progressive, to which it is better to adhere to be able to have access to the club’s club and therefore be appreciated and be nice, and also obtain some contracts or engagements.
Currently, for example, it is very popular to say that “Patriarchate is the cause of femicide”, “femicide is the work of the white male”, “neutral is born”, “the Italians are racist” and similar boots. If you dare to contradict certain dogmas, you are offered. So it is all a race to demonstrate, through an excess of tests, not even requested, that you think how respectable people think, or how respectable people should think. It takes courage to be yourself. This sometimes involves the obtracization, that only the strong and independent of spirit are willing to bear. For example, it succeeds very well. I have never tried to please, on the contrary, my wife claims that I do everything for not pleasure. And he has no wrong. I am enjoyed unwelcome. Yet they are the living proof that you can be free intellectually and, despite this, to make a career, progress, even in journalism, where those who are left -wing is sure, even when it has a mediocre pen just like the brain. And of examples I could make it to iosa.
I have never loved the honors for the reasons you show up. Sometimes they were paid and rejected them. I am more satisfied with the smiles of the people on the street, the people of all ages and both the sexes who approach me to tell me: «Director, I think like her but I don’t have her audacity. Thanks for interpreting my thoughts too ». And, after all, the only message that I want strong and clear to readers is precisely this: do not be afraid of being free, rather feared of not being it, and the first form of freedom is that of consciousness. So be ready to suffer social isolation, condemnation, stigmatization because of your opinions, but do not put yourself in jail alone as you do every time you are silent for pleasure or not to mind.
In any case, it is also honest to admit that once, it is decades ago that up to two or three years ago, saying of the center -right was equivalent to leaning the hoe on the feet or declaring criminals. Today the climate is clearly improved, even if they worry the violence that have recently recorded themselves in universities with attacks on right -wing students from left -hand students, who are usually the factorous, while defining the latter “democrats” and “anti -fascists”. The one or one who says he is still reputed to be of Serie B, just consider what is stated by Giorgia Meloni or Donald Trump or Elon Musk or Marine Le Pen or Matteo Salvini, however the awareness is widespread that the right thought, although opponent, is that of the majority of citizens, or of those who live in the real world, if they care about the ideological fashions, compare with the actual issues of the company. And it takes care of the substance of things and not of their appearance. The right -wing individual has the quality of concreteness, is the subject of belly but also of substance, does not lose himself in sterile disputes on the variations, does not philosophize on the duty to accommodate anyone who intends to illegally cross our borders, does not hope for the cancellation of the genres, of the family, of private property, does not deny the data relating to the crime carried out by foreigners because it would be racism to detect them, it is not imbued with that moral superiority that He leads him to look at the bottom of those who do not think like him.
Today being right, which does not equate at all to being fascist or Nazi, is not easy but it is less difficult than yesterday thanks also to brave leaders that
They did it not because they hid their ideas but because they defended them, thus also deploying themselves to protect the value-chard of democracy: freedom of speech.
Everything else is prejudice and lie.