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“I have a certain practice of the world; and what we say humanity, and we fill our mouths to say humanity, a beautiful word full of wind, I divide it into five categories: men, half men, hominics, (respectfully speaking) pigliainculo and quaquaraquà “, Leonardo Sciascia makes him say to the protagonist of his novel The Day of the Owl. I don’t have much practice in the world, but in my own way I think that Carlo De Benedetti, wanting to use those categories, does not belong to the first or even to the second. In fact, I do not say men But neither do half of the men say to a rival with serious health problems: “I’m sorry, but it’s a fraud,” as Carlo De Benedetti said yesterday about Silvio Berlusconi, admitted to the San Raffaele in Milan due to complications from coronavirus. It is an expression of ominicchi, pigliainculo and quaquaraquà, categories that the former director of the Republic synthesizes, although with a certain style that lives in the golden Swiss salons.
If Berlusconi is “a cheater” I would like to know how De Benedetti would define an entrepreneur (himself) arrested after having admitted to having paid, as president of Olivetti, ten billion bribes, an entrepreneur (always himself) involved in bankruptcy Banco Ambrosiano as well as in investigations for the use of privileged information and in a long series of bankruptcies, always cured with someone else’s money.
The big names instead of raising them lower those who do not know how to carry them, and this usually happens to the heirs. Carlo De Benedetti is one of the few founders who did not live up to the fame who earned himself in a very casual way. I no longer remember who said: “When you grow up you learn, when you get older you forget.” Here, De Benedetti is an old man who has forgotten, or rather eliminated, the traps (engineer, ten billion lire in bribes is a scam) of which he was the author. To the point of becoming a judge of the morals of others, at the wrong time and in the wrong way. De Benedetti feels like a perfect man. We do not doubt it, on the contrary we are convinced of it because we recognize ourselves in the motto that says: “Only great men can have great defects”. Only hominicchi, pigliainculo and quaquaraquà feel perfect.
