Re: [LAU] OT: Italian University

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:55:48PM +0100, Marco Asa wrote:

> Il giorno Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:26:00 +0100
> Renato Budinich <rennabh@email-addr-hidden> ha scritto:
>
> >
> > We have made this video which we would like to spread as much as
> > possible... here it is:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVHGFMR_N6o
>
> Great video! It's really a shame that the italian government
> intend culture as an expense rather than a resource. And
> so universities, museums and lyrical foundations have to pay
> the waste of the sick economic system of the country.

The video is really well made.

Indeed it's not only the univerities and research. Everything
is going to the drain. A few days of rain and whole regions are
inundated, roads slide away, and tons of mud invade some villages
- all because land management funds have been cut to one third of
what they need to be. Buildings on the Pompei archeological site
fall to pieces, but that's only the top of the iceberg. Result
again of lacking funds and those being available being abused to
favour 'friends'. And then there's the health care, the school
system, and in general the complete infrastructure of society,
all being neglected or destroyed on purpose.

There are several reasons for this, but the dominant one is that
Italy for most of the past 15 years has been governed by an ex
cruise ship crooner turned TV tycoon and then politician for the
sole purpose of keeping himself out of jail. He's immensely rich,
but his empire is build on fraud, corruption and collusion with
organised crime. His mindset consists of vulgarity, one-liners
that won't survive a second of reflection, and a virulent hatred
towards any form of critical thinking, public debate, any form of
legality and the constitution. Most of the effort of his last two
years of governement has been spent on creating ad-hoc laws to
ensure his immunity from the 'communist judges that try to destroy
him'. There's no economic crisis, be happy, Italy is doing much
better than the rest of the world.

It's gone so far that even one of his former allies (Fini, the
president of parliament, with an extreme right-wing past) is
getting sick of this and calling upon reason. And in fact the
current situation is such that the great leader may find the
carpet being pulled from under his feet any day now.
His reaction is the standard one: buy some votes. Some members
of parliament have been offered up to half a million euros to
defect and support him (that's peanuts, his personal income is
around 1M euro per day).

Ciao,

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