Published in the "Fund" www.mirorenzaglia.org of November 23, 2010
A country that goes through a crisis in need of heroes. Or even myths. Characters in fact be taken as a model to come out, to get up for a replacement. Characters spotless, incorruptible, which can not be wrong. A hero is never wrong. Suffer little or not it gives see. It 'just, fair. It 'a hero in short, something to inspire them.
We have had many in the literature, but also in the reality of our world.
The crisis in the country is Italy, and the hero we need is called Roberto Saviano.
not want to be a neurotic snobs, and then find it normal that in this difficult situation in many of the journalist and writer have made a model. Almost an icon. Even I sometimes think so. But we think
Che Guevara? As has become only an icon pop his life? What has become only a shirt, a pin, a flag a man known to history as a hero?
"... somewhere someday, where you will not know ... which will return" Frank Sinatra sang . But Saviano is our Che Guevara? Our hero, the one guide that we waited a long time? Surely he is in danger of becoming pop icon : Facebook profiles with his face, the video of his monologues that rages in all spaces. I repeat: there is tremendous good faith in us that we do all this.
But the heroes just do not have defects. And they do not have to have. Otherwise not true, otherwise do not apply. And that's why we do not forgive anything in Saviano: do not forgive to publish with Mondadori, not forgive the cachet of television, did not condone the items that we do not like, it's not forgive the literary beauty of Gomorrah. "It 's a documentary not a novel!" Says indignantly fiercely! We are so schizophrenic, we also in our good faith, that we cling to anything: the demagoguery, the summons on the MSI, its cilia, the absence of this and that in his monologues. This up to the grim contempt considered a privilege, to be regarded as sold, despite the stock and half a life.
But sometimes it's forgive all, because the heroes so much good that we do not want to see when they are wrong. Why the heroes can not be wrong, because they are a symbol and a symbol can not stain. We do not see that Saviano public with Mondadori, we do not see that its cachet (given the integrity of the character) might be revised, we see that sometimes in danger of being demagogic, we do not notice that some points in his speeches may be far from our vision the world. Because what is a hero is all right. We can not say, maybe, the output of collusion between the 'Ndrangheta and the League was better documented, and not just mentioned, in a monologue instead fairly well documented? He made a mistake, nothing wrong. No hero Saviano is always right! But Roberto Saviano
not a hero. It is not a politician. It is not a prophet. It 's just a man. One of the most beautiful phrases I heard him say, and vents his anger punching a punching bag. Roberto Saviano is a human being and try fury. I find her beautiful monologues or when he speaks because I see the shyness in her eyes despite the role it plays. His being embarrassed her feel out of place even if he is the center stage. Saviano has passion when he speaks, the passion typical of those who believe in what he is doing. E 'bravo, bravissimo, but it is not a professional like Fazio . Luckily it's not even as benign. Here is Roberto Saviano is a human being.
A wonderful human being. Who wanted to tell something and it did. And this is paying a high price, a price that is paid for with royalties and the cachet mother of Rai. Why a life like his is a very difficult life. But I think that we, I speak of those in good faith, we are contributing even more to his suffering. We expect something from this man. Then we discuss for hours in the newspapers, on websites, blogs about what does and what does not. What was good and bad thing. Not understanding that a human being like us, a human being who has overcome the fear to be brave. And this is paying his courage.
I fear for Roberto Saviano. And the bullet that can kill. But I fear that this star system to kill him. This having obsessively put under the spotlight, amplify his every word. Why not just us in good faith. Why in moments of crisis, it is known, there is also need an enemy to be killed. This is for those in bad faith. Those who suggest that without passion is a bastard, a greedy money. Those who want to dress up as Sandokan to meet him. Those who would like to nominate it in politics, because the opposition has no other means that men (as he is, is a man!) And can not admit it. Those who arrest a fugitive, saying aloud that this is the fight against the Mafia in deeds, not words ...
As if the words of Saviano had a fault, and not a virtue.
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