A Neapolitan indipendentist comments an article at Economist

Source: Articolo: http://www.economist.com/node/18745399

Comment:

Quite correct analysis, as well as partial. In the years I've seen many attempts by both italian and foreign press to analyse these phenomena. Italians don't do revolutions. Italians suffer and tolerate unimaginable things. Etc.

Correct? Correct.

The reason why this is correct? You never got it. Neither did anyone else in the worldwide press.

You, at The Economist as well as anywhere else, fail to analyse Italy because you don't know too many things about it. I understand: how can you, when not even italians do?

Italy is a country that hides too many secretes, too many details that nobody knows about and most people don't even want to know.

The explanation is simple: to do a revolution, to stand up, to rebel, you need one thing Italy doesn't have: a People. A single, unique, united people. Everyone, italians included, make the huge mistake to consider Italy a nation. Unfortunately, it is not. There is more than one nation in Italy, but of course almost no one knows this, also because the Italian state has repressed them all since it was created. This is due to the absolute mess they made 150 years ago.

One and a half centuries later, the different people existed back then are still divided. Even worse, the parochialism that back then was typical of the northern society only has been implanted in the southern society, which used to be completely different (the neapolitan people [what they call "southerners" today, plus the people from Abruzzo and lower Lazio] and the sicilian people were strong nations and their people were united thanks to centuries of common history).

The schock caused by the Piedmontese invasion and the cultural-economical-social colonisation operated (and still being operated) by all the italian governments with both violence and brain-washing have created huge damage in the two "southern" people.

This way they have definitely created a non-People throughout the entire country. As I use to say: italians do not exist.

And if italians do not exist, how can they really stand up to anything? On top of this, add 20 years of "stupefying berlusconian television", and you get zombies hanging around and incapable of reacting to their own reflection in a mirror.

(To those who are thinking about the "great resistance to the fascism", I suggest to undertake a huge study about it. There was indeed a "resistance" but it is somewhat different from the mythological one they use to tell us.)