Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Evil 2.0, or bad time to Gaddafi

Few things are certain in life. The bad, until recently, was one of them. At one time, in fact, evil was a milestone, something that's available to men on one side or the other. Those who from time to time embodied evil were completely classified in the service of a cause, in two words, they were afraid.

Consider the idea that we had the most vicious serial killers in history, or dictators. Take the most famous of all, Hitler, and think for a moment the abominable and terrifying formalism of his figure. The black tuft on the forehead while you disrupt delivered his speech hoarse and possessed, in front of audiences whose ranks among martial blowing as a cold current, the breath of death.

The categories of funny, the bizarre, were not part of that macabre stage set. Hitler was evil in a black abyss, a whirlpool vacuum, something inhuman that left no hope. We come now to the present day and take for example the Gaddafi, during a speech a few days ago is angry with "mice and rodents," he says of himself that "the glory", which informs us that the youth rioters were taken by force from their families and "were given hallucinogens, consider this new species of tyrant that runs in front of the camera accompanied by a small group of loyalists armed with kissing on a machine that looks like a cross between a caddy electrical and un'apecar of those seen on the golf course, with so much glass as best accommodated through a strip of adhesive tape.

One way, instead of remaking the remake of Hollywood Party or play a part personally in The Naked Gun, nowadays personifies evil. The metaphysical evil and wrong material. As was well understood by the Chaplin of The Great Dictator, you can baste a grotesque satire of absolute evil. Being able to grasp the paradox, the bizarre, nell'agghiacciante Hitler's madness, however, was about a comic genius.

The comic paradox in fact, Hitler was not something immediately recognizable. The dictator today, however, is more like a caricature than a devil in the flesh. There seems to be nothing serious in his ridiculous rants. Yet behind the absurd quirk of Gaddafi, there is slavery and death of thousands of people.

In fact, many argue that fascism was a joke, a funny clown. And much of fascism was the theater, staging, aside from the "detail" of boundaries of political persecution, racial laws, and so on. But you know, we Italians always export folklore. Thus, compared to the past, the terms of the question were reversed.

If in the last century the challenge was to capture the comedy in the tragedy, today, Qaddafi for his show which broadcasts worldwide, have to be good to recognize the horror in the pantomime. Let's face it: these days, apparently, even the evil is more serious.

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