{"id":5708,"date":"2011-03-15T23:06:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T06:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2011-03-17T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T06:41:10","slug":"on-march-15th-2011-pier-paolo-pasolini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/03\/15\/on-march-15th-2011-pier-paolo-pasolini\/","title":{"rendered":"On March 15th, 2011, PIER PAOLO PASOLINI…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pasolini talks about the real fascism on the beaches of Sabaudia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…is on my mind again – as he often is while contemplating the materially impoverished, but joyous, lively, celebratory, marginal, scrappy, hard-working, essential, common, quotidian, local, humane, modest, austere, resourceful, diverse, connected, localized, sensual, civilized, defiant, earthy, bawdy, slow, simple aspects of Italian culture that are being steamrolled – and then I always remember those brief lucid and prescient thoughts that the great Italian filmmaker and poet suddenly articulated, almost as an after thought, as he was finishing an interview on the beach of the fascist town of Sabaudia<\/a> which was broadcast on RAI national television on February 7th, 1974 (the year before he was murdered on the Roman beach of Ostia) – declaring that “…the true fascism is really the power of this consumer culture which is destroying Italy”<\/em> – and instead of simple knee-jerk nostalgia or a conservative retrograde desire to keep things as they were, here was an early vivid sense of the blind thoughtless wholesale cultural, social and ecological gutting that emerged in post-war Italy in the name of short-term convenience, comfort and prosperity which was only just beginning and is still continues. (clip with English subtitles<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Allora io penso questo: che il fascismo, il regime fascista, non \u00e8 stato altro \u2013 in conclusione \u2013 che un gruppo di criminali al potere e questo gruppo di criminali al potere non ha potuto in realt\u00e0 fare niente, non \u00e8 riuscito ad incidere, nemmeno a scalfire lontanamente la realt\u00e0 dell\u2019Italia. Sicch\u00e9 Sabaudia, bench\u00e9 ordinata dal Regime secondo certi criteri di carattere razionalistico, estetizzante, accademico, non trova le sue radici nel regime che l\u2019ha ordinata ma trova le sue radici in quella realt\u00e0 che il fascismo ha dominato tirannicamente, ma che non \u00e8 riuscito a scalfire. Cio\u00e8: \u00e8 la realt\u00e0 dell\u2019Italia provinciale, rustica, paleoindustriale che ha prodotto Sabaudia, non il fascismo. Ora, invece, succede il contrario. Il regime \u00e8 un regime democratico, per\u00f2 quella acculturazione, quella omologazione che il fascismo non \u00e8 riuscito assolutamente a ottenere, il potere di oggi \u2013 cio\u00e8 il potere della realt\u00e0 dei consumi \u2013, invece, riesce a ottenere perfettamente, togliendo realt\u00e0 ai vari modi di essere uomini che l\u2019Italia ha prodotto in modo storicamente molto differenziato. E allora questa acculturazione sta distruggendo, in realt\u00e0, l\u2019Italia. E allora io posso dire senz\u2019altro che il vero fascismo \u00e8 proprio questo potere della civilt\u00e0 dei consumi che sta distruggendo l\u2019Italia. Questa cosa \u00e8 avvenuta talmente rapidamente che, in fondo, non ce ne siamo resi conto; \u00e8 avvenuto tutto negli ultimi cinque, sei, sette, dieci anni; \u00e8 stato una specie di incubo in cui abbiamo visto l\u2019Italia intorno a noi distruggersi e sparire e adesso, risvegliandoci \u2013 forse \u2013 da quest\u2019incubo, e guardandoci intorno ci accorgiamo che non c\u2019\u00e8 pi\u00f9 niente da fare. <\/em>(from transcript on ipercritica<\/a>)
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…is on my mind again – as he often is while contemplating the materially impoverished, but joyous, lively, celebratory, marginal, scrappy, hard-working, essential, common, quotidian, local, humane, modest,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1719,235,824,636],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-film","tag-interview","tag-italian-film","tag-pier-paolo-pasolini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5743,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}