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Let’s get on with the work – actually, let’s move on to the next monster in the video game. Already now our societies are prisoners of a growing authoritarianism, of illiberal impulses increasingly accepted “naturally” by citizens, and Covid has become a powerful multiplier of the propensity of the public hand to crush the space of personal and business freedom.
Let’s be clear: the fact that security and freedom may conflict at a certain historical moment is certainly not new. But what is striking, in 2020, is the ease with which we have lent ourselves to the experiment: Parliament deprived of authority, constitutional freedoms compressed or suspended, use and abuse of the Dpcm, decisions announced at a press conference earlier on stage institutional.
And unstoppable tendency to paternalism: regional ministers and governors who, often amid applause and with growing consensus, propose themselves as guides, as moral preceptors, as dispensers of concessions and prohibitions. The famous conference in which Giuseppe Conte repeated like a mantra: “We bestow you” remains memorable.
Here, the question isIf so, what will happen when bankruptcies and mass unemployment are added to this explosive mix? So far – economically speaking – we are still in a “methadone” phase, between the regulatory lockdown on layoffs and the last pale effects of the government’s calming measures. But very soon, between the end of this year and the beginning of the new, the bomb is destined to explode, first in the form of “controlled euthanasia” for many companies (voluntary closure), then in the form of “violent death” (bankruptcies) and, for one cause or another, with an unprecedented wave of jobs inevitably doomed.
What will happen at that time? Difficult to make predictions. The feeling is that what has already been happening for some time, that is, a division of Italy in two, will become visible plastically. On one side, Italy of public workers and pensioners (to avoid doubts: no one has the responsibility, it is certainly not a question of blaming them), that -for better or for worse- they will be guaranteed in what little they have. On the other hand, however, private workers, companies, the self-employed, VAT numbers will remain totally uncovered, completely unprotected in the harshest winter, and for a very different reason, since the Second World War.
Cynically, the most ideologized parts of the current Giallorossi majority might not even care: this second Italy is outside their constituency, in other words, it no longer votes for them. Yet it would be politically criminal to keep mocking this private half of Italy, offending it by systematically accusing it of escapism, just as it is about to be ripped apart for a semester that promises to be devastating.
If anyone has kept a modicum of clarity, think about it.
Daniele Capezzone, September 28, 2020
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