The real enemies of Italy are the ignorance and the absence of merit.
Ignorance here means the condition of being uninformed, lacking of knowledge and information. It is important to specify this because one can be also uneducated (this is the other meaning of ignorance) but to him should never be denied the freedom of being informed about facts to be able to have an opinion of his own and to be able to choose freely. Unfortunately this is not always the case, nor it is in Italy.
Ignorance closes your mind, makes impossible to have a genuine opinion about facts and makes you slave of the fear and prejudice. This leads to even another problem. As Daniel Boorstin used to say “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.” The illusion of knowledge produced by the media (mostly newspapers and televisions) that serve a single person or the whole the political class in general, makes even more difficult for the people to understand their unconscious status.
An italian watching the news on tv or reading the newspapers don’t get objective news, don’t learn the truth about Italian’s politics and economy. Final result: media are often filled of news about soccer scandals, the Pope, gossip, the constant quarrels among their politicians, but the real information, the stuff people need to know in order to make up their mind as to who is a suitable candidate to represent them and give them a voice, is kept from them.
One of the biggest problems in Italy is also the absence of merit. It’s common to look for a recommendation, it isn’t necessarely a bad thing even. But being nepotism and favouritism prevalent in Italy, to find employment it isn’t necessarily WHAT you know but WHO you know. This would bring the whole system soon or later to collapse (if there is any doubt left about it?) because as a consequence of this often we don’t have persons that are really able and capable of covering a certain position. This causes immense problems if you think about politics, hospitals, education system for example.
As a result of all this, people often aim to be rich without any effort and with low merit, because what they see counts on tv is only money and showing up. The real values are gone. Many people of any age in Italy think they worth something just because they have the biggest shining car or the latest model of sun glasses and the latest mobile phone model.
Nowadays it doesn’t matter anymore who wins the election, as the Italians won’t gain anything anyway.
This is the real Italian defeat.
