Sonya Lipenolch who remarks at the end of her walk through the park of
Napoli Milionaria that her name appears in no anthology of "The last women
on earth from the Marechiaro border" will be glad that the piece of poem
which Dom quoted the final three lines has been available at Tesco for 15
years in 100 Poems by 100 Poets, an anthology - selected by Pinterocchi
and 2 other old camrades, O' Puorc e O' Sciancat, of poems representative
of the finest poetry of each poet. The prevailing response of the
psychoanalytic community of Pinterocchi is very predictable: how dreadful
that such a response is made known and that such messages happened in the
past!
But look what we have done to ensure that Dom could not post what he posts
now!
Hower much we appreciate his earnestness of intervention with which our
therapist insists that these things will not happen again in the future,
and his well-intentioned attempts to put structures in place to ensure that
this is so, the idea that such measures will do much to raise (the
consciousness of) members - and in that sense to protect the audience from
this danger - is admirable.
Whatever else he did, Freud reminded us of the ubiquity of self-deception
and the infinite cleverness with which it clothes itself. Codes of ethics,
established standards of pactice and patience, systems of investigations,
transparency and opacity, accountability and non accountability are all
very well, but self-deception insinuate itself into these very structures,
all in the name of standards.(?)
So, the psychoanalyst and the philosopher ask Dom - it is in spite of this
new culture of self-deceptive self-regulating openness that cleverness of
mind, existential vigilance and sceptical sensibility sometimes survive?
Over the years, Dom might become a more pronounced democrat. But not
necessarily a liberal and certainly not a neo-liberal. Maybe he might
become a post-new-anti-socialist, whose inprisonment is decided by his own
writing which illustrate an acute realization that unless the liberation
army's footsoldiers were politically empowered, Dom-type politicians would
dispense chocolate bars from tall war tracks to vigilant black eyed italian
village girls wearing DD-cups, but summarily.
Now, perhaps an earlier understanding of this would have forestalled today'
speech and it might also have prevented Dom's revolt with his two-stages
perspective on socialism, which enphasised the attainment of democracy and
encouraged him to advocate a united front at the Posillipo-Sorrento
conference, involving Dom taking his life jacket and swimming costume with
him since one never knows what one might encounter on his way to the beach.
By such means, he thought, the Smidollati and the Sciancati of the world
would be prevented from practising fellatio, sodomy and sadomasoc. Such
thoughtful pragmatism was too farsigned for those rested in some other
practises within Internet battles. Dom also hoped that full electoral
freedom would enable him to mount a radical challenge to soldiers
distributing condoms to nuns and priests, instead of nationalistic leaflets
preaching "Mater di Dio e Gloria Pater". Months ago, Dom stole Dom's
language and proceeded to practise silence - the best of all protests .
Just he revisisted some European countries tracing the origin of Tibetan
monks to oragnize mass campaign against a particular doctrine which cannot
bbe revealed here, now.
(saluti), Erminia
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