Greta Thunberg Archivi - Invisibilia: appunti postumi di una vita qualunque

The first victim of the war

Posted on 07/04/202202/04/2026 by Nemulisse

When events flow at a whirlwind pace, I believe it makes little sense to write about their causes and where they will lead in the future. To understand, one must wait and pull the threads of various plots unfolding simultaneously, yet (at least apparently) disconnected from one another. I fear it will not be long before the developments—tragic, in my opinion—of everything humanity has been experiencing for two years now reach their culmination point. Briefly recapping, we have suffered the fake scamdemic of Sars-Cov-2. Today we know full well where it originated (link 1, link 2, link 3) and who was, so to speak, its “mastermind”. In reality, we should say “the masterminds”, who are always the usual suspects. They are just over a hundred powerful families and autocrats in the world who, I stress, by mutual agreement, decided which changes humanity should be steered towards in a short space of time. Alongside the usual Rothschild, Rockefeller & Co. families, this group includes the nomenclature of the Chinese mandarins (with whom, as Nicoletta Forcheri rightly pointed out, the Rothschilds have been doing business for years now), the Vatican, the Mafia and Vladimir Putin’s Russia (perhaps the only one slightly more tied to the “old school” world in some respects). Moreover, they have explained everything clearly and in broad daylight during their various, by now semi-legendary, meetings of the Bilderberg group or Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum and his Agenda 2030. You will own nothing and you will be happy (and controlled from morning till night). Thus their motto can be summed up. All this via technology. The entire operation was prepared long in advance, and the methods used to introduce it were manifold. Internationally, tension was kept high with various colour revolutions and terrorist attacks in several nations, whose extremist perpetrators (usually Arabs) can only be believed by primary school children or the sheeple (that is, 90 per cent of humanity). Paving the way for a change in lifestyle, on the other hand, was left to political movements like the “5 Stars” in Italy, or the Greens in Germany, as well as the champion of the “climate change” protest Greta Thunberg and the lobotomised “climate morons” (gretini) of all ages, magically popping up like mushrooms all over the globe (the mother of idiots is always pregnant, as one would have said in past times outside the realm of political correctness). Finally came the war in Ukraine. As in all wars, the first victim to pay the price is the truth. The only sure thing is that none of the parties involved, Europe included, gives a toss about the Ukrainian population. A “strange” war, that never officially declared between Russia, the invader, and Ukraine, the attacked. The story, as we know, goes way back. At least from one side of the issue. Namely, the continuous transgression of the agreements made at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall between the former Soviet Union and NATO regarding respect for the neutrality of former Soviet territories (Ukraine included), and the treatment reserved for the Russian-speaking populations of the Donbass, with Russia’s recognition of the independence of the two republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. In this regard, see the excellent work of Giorgio Bianchi, one of the few real journalists who, on the ground, is recounting (at the time of writing this article) how the facts are truly unfolding and how they unfolded in the past. That being said, however, the general situation remains to be analysed. As I said earlier, Russia too is part of the power group that wants to carve up the future world. However, I think that along the path supposed to lead to this goal, there are actual clashes between the actors on the field. In this case, the United States and Great Britain, using the smokescreen of NATO, and on the other side Tsar Vladimir. The first two tried to deal a significant blow to their rival, failing to calculate that the latter is actually a much tougher nut to crack than they thought. If we add to this the fact that China (Washington’s true target) has joined forces to form a common front with Russia, the picture is problematic to say the least.

Farewell Dollar, farewell

Aside from NATO’s undeniable encirclement of Russian territory and the attempt made in Ukraine, using the Old Continent at their pleasure (as usual), what is now at stake is monetary supremacy and the transition (desired by all competing actors) to digital currency. First step? Putin’s massive shoulder barge to the Dollar: demanding payment for the precious (at least for Europe, the real loser in this whole dispute) Russian gas in roubles and no longer in Euros or Dollars has marked a point of no return to the past. The cost of gold in Roubles is lower than that of the same in Dollars. The Petrodollar, which replaced the Bretton Woods agreements in 1971, has reached the end of the line. Russia and China have decided that the time has come to retire it. But beware, this is not a game of the good guy against the bad guy (in this case, the Russians against the Americans). I absolutely do not belong to those on the Web who are gloating at the mere thought that globalisation has reached the end of the line. Globalisation as we had understood it up until now, yes. But the elites have transformed it and conceived a form of digitised global control. It is no coincidence that Russia also accepts payment for its raw materials in Bitcoin. Because the Russians know very well too that digital currency (which is unfortunately the future of commercial exchanges of any kind) allows for almost total social control. Besides knowing perfectly well where an individual is and what they are doing, if they were to fail to abide by the diktats of those in command or transgress the rules imposed upon them, they could be immediately punished through the instant closure of their credit, making their life practically impossible. Exactly as is currently happening in China in several regions, whose model is the one inspiring the “liberal socialists” à la Mario Draghi*. This is why there was the “pandemic” first and now the war. Everything was already planned, just as climate changes are planned. Everything tends towards a single goal: the world will be divided into three power blocs. The Anglo-American one on one side, with Canada, Australia and various colonies; the Sino-Russian bloc on the other, with India and other countries tied to their economies; and finally Europe, or rather what will be left of it. Indeed, the weak link is precisely us, crushed by American interests on the one hand and a lack of raw materials on the other. We were, or rather we are, the tastiest morsel. We are a relatively rich continent and we have, we Italians in particular, the highest number of artworks in the world and a high rate of private wealth, both movable and real estate. I have to laugh at those on the Web who claim: “Globalisation is collapsing”, or “it’s all coming down. We’ve won”, or rather “Putin is the last champion against globalisation”. Putin is undoubtedly an excellent old-school politician, and first and foremost he looks after his own nation’s interests, but he is no saint, no more and no less than the others. He too has a very specific goal: to carve out a slice of the global pie for himself. The only difference is that he does it with a sort of ethics that his adversaries/accomplices have long ceased to apply. Or perhaps never applied. As they say, dog doesn’t eat dog. Or rather, every now and then they try to, perhaps hoping to catch their antagonist unprepared, but the ultimate goal is always well in sight for everyone. China, having now become an economic and technological giant, is the true antagonist of the United States (who had initially favoured it thinking they could relegate mass industrial production there, failing to realise instead that they had made Western companies dependent on it for strategic industrial production). The Chinese empire possesses great power in construction logistics, something that can come in handy for Russia which, conversely, except for Moscow and St Petersburg (i.e. the “European” part of its territory), has vast quantities of raw materials but lacks the infrastructure. Therefore, the Chinese and Russians have allied for a mutual exchange in this sense. Vladivostok in particular represents the spearhead of this alliance, as a port facing the Sea of Japan, hence the Pacific Ocean, bordering China and North Korea and which, via the Bering Strait, represents an alternative for transporting goods through the Northern Sea Route (which now, with the melting ice, is a more than viable alternative to the usual routes mostly controlled by the opposing economic bloc). Both China and Russia have bought large quantities of gold on markets all over the world in recent years, precisely in anticipation of “decoupling” from the petrodollar. After the United States, the largest holders of gold in the world are Germany, and indeed us, followed by the French and the Swiss. Thus, we Europeans are like a big pie to be carved up. What follows is easy to predict.

Where our political class comes from

As I was saying, in the end the one to lose out will primarily be the Old Continent itself, which has no energy resources of its own and will see its manufacturing industry and enterprise go up in smoke. The first warning signs are already clearly visible in many countries; ours, needless to say, among the first. Inflation has started galloping almost everywhere and ultimately the result will be a genuine disaster. European rulers, none excluded, belong to that ruling class that is either inept (and chosen to govern for this reason) or colluding, having grown up precisely within the institutional, educational and university, then political and social establishments of the elites who rule the world. In this regard, see Davide Rossi’s excellent book La Fabian Society e la pandemia. They are a bunch of parvenus ruling us not in our interest, but in that of the elites who trained them and put them in power. All this amidst the culpable distraction of the masses, lulled to sleep behind the latest mobile phone model, or the football team of the moment, or the advice of the influencer (artfully created, of course) touting consumer goods of all kinds, occasionally dispensing pearls of political or social wisdom to follow. Two years of the “pandemic” have clearly shown how a very few individuals, rich beyond the limits of imagination, have managed to pit the rest of humanity against each other. And all this by making them believe, through the exceedingly powerful means of totally subservient media, that one must fight not against what would once have been called the “system”, but in favour of it. Obviously in the name of the “common good” and to counter emergencies (created ad hoc by themselves). Not even Nazi propaganda managed to achieve as much. Dictators needed force to ensure the population obeyed through gritted teeth (obtorto collo). Instead, for the first time in human history, the victims voluntarily submitted to every sort of oppression by their executioners. I repeat, out of fear, exhaustion, cowardice, or simple compliance brought about by induced collective hypnosis. I would say very little hope remains regarding a recovery of position on the part of the world’s populations. Even if they are the absolute majority, the position they have reached is of such weakness as to leave no room for hoping for a general uprising. The revolts, as we have unfortunately seen several times during this period (Canada, Australia, France… Italy itself), have always been silenced by force, aided also by a quiet compliance from the “rebels” still deluded by the fact that one can expect justice from institutions, believing them to be impartial (super partes) and acting for the “good of the people”. In reality, that fine line between the legal and the illegal was crossed a long time ago by those who should have protected us against economic power. Now it is this very power that has taken the place of the legislative and judicial ones. And, unfortunately, I see no way of stopping it.

The Eurogendfor

Furthermore, what seems inevitable to me is civil war in several countries, because when push comes to shove (and in my opinion it will be much sooner than one might think), the social clash between these elites and the lower-middle class will be inevitable. As Cato the Censor used to say: “The stomach has no ears”. And many will be the stomachs that will be left empty very soon. I think attempts to placate them with some sort of universal basic income (already tried in various guises in different parts of the world, Italy included) will be to no avail, and the intervention of repressive violence will be the only way to contain the anger of the people. Do you remember the Eurogendfor? Probably not. It is that military corps established during the European Council of Nice in December 2000 and definitively made official with the Treaty of Velsen in 2007, the latter signed by France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and, obviously, Italy, whose headquarters are in Vicenza (where, coincidentally, one of the most important American bases in Europe is located). The treaty consists of 47 articles, among which some interesting things can be read. Its tasks are: “to conduct security and public order missions; to monitor, advise, mentor and supervise local police in their day-to-day work, including criminal investigation work; to conduct public surveillance, traffic regulation, border policing and general intelligence gathering; to perform criminal investigation work, detect offences, trace offenders and transfer them to the appropriate judicial authorities; to protect people and property and keep order in the event of public disturbances” (Art. 4). The scope of action: “EUROGENDFOR may be placed at the disposal of the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other international organizations or ad hoc coalitions” (Art. 5). The headquarters and command cabin: “the multinational police force with military status consisting of the permanent multinational, modular and projectable Headquarters located in Vicenza (Italy). The role and structure of the permanent HQ, as well as its involvement in operations, shall be approved by the CIMIN – namely – the High Level Interdepartmental Committee. It constitutes the decision-making body governing EUROGENDFOR” (Art. 3). The EGF enjoys total immunity: inviolable premises, property and archives (Arts. 21 and 22); communications cannot be intercepted (Art. 23); damage to property or persons cannot be compensated (Art. 28); gendarmes cannot be investigated by the justice system of the host countries (Art. 29). As is clearly evident, a series of privileges inconceivable in a state governed by the rule of law. On the 14th of May 2010, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic ratified the agreement. Present 443, voting 442, abstentions 1. 442 voted yes: everyone, none excluded. If a part of the “regular” law enforcement agencies, as I suspect, takes the side of the oppressed, who do you think the oppressors will use to contain the revolt and break the rebels? We leave the arduous verdict to posterity.

Regarding the latter, to all those who say that it is a Government of incompetents that has been leading Italy for two years now, I answer that it is not so: they know perfectly well what they are doing (they are told what to do) and they are doing it well. At least from their point of view.

The best of all possible worlds

Posted on 14/05/202102/04/2026 by Nemulisse

The “pandemic”, vaccines, masks… all the main topics one hears about from morning to night everywhere, on TV, on social media, on the streets. By now we have become accustomed to these themes and practically take them for granted. A bit like talking about the weather when you don’t really know what else to converse about. By now it is taken for granted that freedom is represented by being able to get vaccinated (or branded, like cattle, depending on one’s point of view) with the method deemed most suitable for oneself and as quickly as possible, and not by the fact that one might not want to get vaccinated. The latter, on the contrary, is viewed and singled out as the most heinous of sins in the social and even moral sphere (I dealt with this in this article). Anyone who harbours doubts about wanting to have the saving liquid inoculated into them is blacklisted and considered a pariah and a plague-spreader. This “branding” operation is put into effect starting with the various camel-mounted troops of “information”. At every hour of the day and night the usual faces of “experts”, pundits and politicians endlessly repeat the sung mass they have been told to propagate, regardless of their own competence and ability to understand what they are repeating ad nauseam. And this happens everywhere, in every Country, more in some, less in others, and with methods that change depending on the type of culture of the Country itself. Here at home, in Italialand, other accompanying diversions are added to this uninterrupted hammering, partly because they are typical of our culture, and partly because, as I have stressed at other times, we are a perfect people for conducting large-scale social experiments on. The latest in chronological order is the discussion on the so-called “Zan” law (a bill to be precise), passed in the Chamber of Deputies and now under discussion in the Senate. Of this specific legislative measure, Article 4 would need to be examined and investigated in depth, as it provides the means (were the law to pass as it is) to accuse anyone of crimes of opinion should they express thoughts not conforming to those of the “politically correct”, which might “offend” whoever on topics of a sexual and “inclusive” nature (a term so dear to a certain political side, and which deliberately means nothing concrete in itself). But I will not dwell on discussing it here now. There will be other occasions. However, there is an aspect of this whole “surreal” situation which in my opinion has not yet been highlighted well enough. It concerns the tight connection that actually exists between the “pandemic”, the restrictions implemented to “control” it, vaccines and… the “ecological transition” and so-called “digitisation”. Apparently these topics would be unrelated, but upon closer analysis the threads can be joined together. Let’s start with the last two.

Climate, ecology and bits aplenty

In the month of April, the European Union (Council and Parliament) reached a political agreement (confirmed a few days ago) that introduces into legislation the objective of climate neutrality (namely the Earth’s ability to absorb the greenhouse gas emissions produced) of the EU itself by 2050, and a collective goal of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. Following this decision, or rather afterwards, the German Constitutional Court issued a ruling defined by all media as “historic”: “…The provisions of the Federal Climate Change Act of 12 December 2019… are incompatible with fundamental rights insofar as they lack sufficient specifications for further emission reductions from 2031 onwards. The Climate Change Act obliges the Federal Government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 per cent by the year 2030 compared to 1990… the complainants, some of whom are still very young, have had their fundamental rights violated by the challenged provisions”. Indeed, “the young”, because many of the complainants were precisely those youth movements that identify with Greta Thunberg’s “Fridays for Future”. What a coincidence. And the German Government, so sensitive to the demands of the young (or perhaps of its entrepreneurial class?), promptly upped the ante, increasing Germany’s emission reduction target for 2030 from 55 to 65 per cent. The federal cabinet intends to pass a corresponding amendment to the Climate Change Act in the near future. The alternative energy to coal and lignite to keep German industries running in the future will most likely be hydrogen and dual-fluid nuclear power (to be clear, the reactors fitted on submarines), but for the moment gas remains the most viable energy source for replacing coal. Hence the agreement with the “big bad” Putin for the construction of the doubling of the Baltic Sea pipeline, the so-called “Nord Stream 2”, so fiercely opposed by the other big bad Trump first, and by the good Biden now. Opposed clearly not because anyone believes the joke about the wickedness of the Russian “enemy”, but because the United States must export their shale gas to Europe. Therefore Germany runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds, so as to displease no one. A masterpiece of economic diplomacy to get what it needs: exporting galore is the goal that cannot be compromised on, therefore… Therefore German industry, the true Panzer of the “locomotive of Europe”, is getting ready, in every sense. It needs to reconvert its means of production, also through digitisation (which as we shall see is not only for this purpose), but to do so it must invest substantial capital. So what better thing than to make all the “customers” themselves pay for this “transition”, namely European citizens through the (fake) funding of the Recovery Fund (which actually, in words, should serve for the damages deriving from the “pandemic”)? But how to do it? Simple! First of all you must find an ally that has the same need for industrial reconversion (read France), then you push at a political level so that the decision to adopt them is taken by all the other Countries (there must be an absolute majority). After that, you rap the knuckles of the most rebellious to make them accept this “little suppository”, consisting mostly of loans that will have to be repaid with interest (Italy is earmarked for about 191.5 billion, of which 68.9 in grants and 122.6 in loans. In addition, another 31 billion are envisaged from the so-called Complementary Fund and 13.5 from the “React EU” programme) with (fake) threats not to grant the aid itself. This is for a portion of the funds necessary for this transition. Then there is the political aspect. You must push those parties and movements that in the common imagination are most linked to “green”, “ecology”, “safeguarding the environment”. Namely the Grünen, the German Greens. And how to garnish this choice on the international wave of the “politically correct”? Why, it’s obvious! With a female candidate for the chancellorship for the upcoming September elections: Annalena Baerbock, 40 years of pure inexperience and lack of substance. The ideal candidate to drag along that young, or youthful, electorate so beloved by the people who matter. Everything “green”, spiritual, innovative and, why not?, digital. Yes, because the future passes through bytes, or rather through the Yobibytes (2^80) of data that circulate and will increasingly circulate on the Web. A mountain of data, worth as much gold as its immense mass. And to do this, Germany wants to catch up with the times, like its American and Chinese economic competitors, through the construction of quantum super-computers (capable of performing calculations, which the fastest computers in the world would take 10 thousand years to solve, in about 3 minutes and twenty seconds). Such computing power can be applied to infinite sectors, from the strictly commercial to the military, from the financial to pure research. In particular, the medical sector will benefit from it.

Resist, or rather no! Be Resilient!

Of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (a term used so much lately, and not by chance) which is divided into 6 “missions”, i.e. compartments to put it the Italian way, the chapter reserved for Healthcare or Health (here too the change is not accidental) is the one which has been allocated the smallest slice of resources (a mere 15.6 billion from the NRRP + 1.71 from React EU + 2.89 bn from the complementary fund) out of those that will “arrive” from Europe. But how? Are we not in a global pandemic emergency? Seeing as there have been so many (justified) complaints about the lack of intensive care beds in our hospitals, how come no steps have been taken in over a year to increase them? Oh, right! We bought the desks on wheels, those were the real necessity! Furthermore, for those who don’t know, our Governments (Conte first and Draghi now) have to this day not allocated a single euro to research in our Country on Covid-19, the “greatest pandemic the history of humanity remembers”… And yet from morning to night, as we were saying, we are bombarded by constant messages reminding us how dangerous the “virus” is, how important it is that we continue to maintain “social” distancing, that we must be “responsible” so as not to ruin those two crumbs of freedom we have been granted. A quick parenthesis: in case you didn’t know, the WHO has suggested to Countries that are profusely applying the vaccination campaign to lower the number of cycles (that’s what they are called) carried out to verify if a swab is positive or negative (below twenty, because beyond that you can find just about anything). Therefore, the result of the drop in infections is not due to the lesser spread of the virus by virtue of the vaccines’ efficacy, but simply because the analyses (in any case unsuited for diagnosing this type of positivity) are being carried out more correctly. Returning to the NRRP, the most substantial funding chapters, guess what, are assigned to: digitisation, innovation, competitiveness and culture (40.32 billion from the NRRP + 0.8 billion from React-EU + 8.74 from the complementary fund); green revolution and ecological transition (59.47 billion from the NRRP + 1.31 from React-EU + 9.16 from the complementary fund); infrastructures for sustainable mobility (25.4 bn from NRRP + 6.06 from the complementary fund); education and research (30.88 billion from the NRRP + 1.93 bn from React-EU + 1 billion from the complementary fund); inclusion and cohesion (19.81 bn from the NRRP + 7.25 from React-EU + 2.77 from the complementary fund). Thus, just like in Germany, “digitisation”, “green revolution” and “ecological transition” take the top spots. A coincidence? I should think not. What I think, on the contrary, is that it is exactly what the economically hegemonic class, the so-called “powers that be”, had in mind right from the beginning of this whole immense pantomime. The virus, obviously, is a means to radically change the economy and society. Once one Covid is over, you make another, to adapt an old Roman proverb about Popes. The “pandemic” is a method for achieving the desired change, and therefore can be used at will. At least as long as people continue to give credence to the current narrative, even if the latter is blatantly leaking from all sides. The fear of losing one’s life is the engine of this entire narrative, and out of fear of losing it, one fails to realise that, effectively, one is no longer living.

Your robot doctor

I conclude this long article with a final consideration. One of the main components of “digitisation” is precisely the one linked to Health. The latter, or rather Healthcare (a much broader concept than the one used in these last few years, I repeat, not by chance), is an exceedingly powerful means of controlling the masses. And this not only because illness is inherent to human nature, but also because through medicine one can determine the destiny of an individual, both in a positive and negative sense. The masses can also be steered towards certain types of behaviour, both with reflex reactions and with methodologies of a physical nature interacting with the human being. In this framework, so-called “telemedicine” will increasingly gain ground in the now imminent future. Telematic hubs will be created that will constantly monitor patients in their own homes, and the interaction with smartphones will be increasingly evident. In practice, there will be a total computerisation of our state of health and our life in general, where your doctor will be a computer programme or a robot doctor. Millions of data, as I mentioned earlier, which will be genuine gold both for the elites who hold the technological and financial means to do all this, and for their companies on which the whole of humanity now depends. So, besides control, profit too. The “Internet of Things”, for which 5G is necessary (they are already talking about 6G and beyond) is not a “cool thing”, it is the end of self-determination. You will be connected to the Web 24 hours a day and these billions of data will be precisely controlled via quantum computers. With digitisation, forget privacy, forget freedom of decision and movement, forget life as you have known it to this day. Welcome to the new, ecological, sustainable and digital world. The best of all possible worlds.

The other side of the Moon

Posted on 13/04/202002/04/2026 by Nemulisse

I want to break a lance in favour of the younger generations. Specifically, I am not so much referring to twenty-somethings or those even younger, but rather to the thirty-to-forty-somethings, the so-called Millennials. This, let me preface, is unusual for me, because I consider them to be an unprepared generation, often uncultured despite wishing to appear otherwise, and highly conceited. Furthermore, adding fuel to the fire of my criticism is the fact that a large part of this demographic currently constitutes our “ruling class”, at all levels and in all fields. Having said that, let me explain the reason for this apparent change of heart on my part. In reality, these are the generations born around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, who grew up with the myth of a united Europe, of “perpetual peace” (as we too had believed). Unlike those born before that period, however, they were educated in schools and universities specifically tailored for them, with a new educational system that advanced hand in hand with neo-liberal economic thought. And it is precisely the latter, neo-liberalism, that has orchestrated a gigantic mystification of reality for the use and consumption of the new generations. Employing vast resources and systematically deconstructing the pre-existing reality, it has managed to render that reality alien even to those who had contributed to producing it or, at the very least, living it over the years. But let us proceed in order, to understand how this has happened over time.

The School System

This work of deconstruction started with the educational system, state schools, which was systematically destroyed in terms of both resources and teaching methodologies. A relentless campaign was waged to denigrate the role of the public sector (as with the rest of the State’s activities), using compliant or simply superficial media to push the message that the private sector was better, more efficient and more “in step with the times”. This occurred in both schools and universities. The latter witnessed a feeble protest movement named the “Pantera” (Panther), which ended in typical “Italian style”, that is, achieving absolutely nothing. It was directed against the reforms the then Minister Antonio Ruberti wished to introduce (December 1989). These reforms, among other things, envisaged the private financing of research and the entry of corporations onto university boards of directors. In practice, the beginning of the privatisation of universities. With the exception of a few amendments to the law conceded by Ruberti, the privatisation began. Schools underwent the same process. Especially with the reform desired by Minister Luigi Berlinguer (1996-98) which, through subsequent modifications by other Governments, reduced schools to branch offices of corporations. This process of “corporatisation” has been well explained by Pietro Ratto, notably in this interview. At the same time, school curricula were tampered with, through repeated attempts to eliminate the study of Latin, Greek and Philosophy, which fortunately failed. Obviously, it is no coincidence that this was repeatedly attempted, because these are subjects that encourage critical thinking and questioning the status quo—something the New World Order does not want, for obvious reasons. Instead, significant cuts were made to the study of History, because we must “forget” the past in order to live in an eternal present, without memory (except for various fabricated “fascisms” and “isms”, useful for stigmatising those who do not think as the mainstream dictates). Curricula were gradually changed and schools, along with universities, as we were saying, were increasingly transformed into businesses that have to balance the books. Headteachers have become accountants, and State funding varies according to the number of pupils attending the institutions. For this reason, the trend of no longer failing students has gradually taken hold, so as to avoid a probable haemorrhaging of pupils. We have even witnessed outright episodes of bullying and harassment directed at teachers, by both pupils and their parents. The school, once a place of formation (albeit criticisable in several respects), has been constantly stripped of content and educational authority, whilst simultaneously having every kind of blame dumped upon it regarding the behaviour of the pupils attending it. The university sector, where the private sector has barged in, is no better. Research is humiliated, and limited-enrolment faculties have been established where access was once free. Syllabuses have been simplified, partly because only the desired educational messages must be passed on (there are extremely valid textbooks that have been deliberately replaced with others, written from scratch), and partly because the “new” students are often incapable of understanding the texts that were once used for the syllabuses proposed by the “old guard” of lecturers. I experienced this directly myself towards the end of my university studies. As the so-called “barons” retired—who may well have been barons, but were very often academics of depth and quality nonetheless—universities replaced the teaching staff with their bag-carriers, or with “new” people formed in the wake of the new prevailing ideology. Obviously, this is not a generalisation that can be applied one hundred per cent, but it is undoubtedly largely correct. Very briefly, this is the school education received by the “youth”, i.e. those who grew up with the idea that Europe was an opportunity (as if it hadn’t been there before) to travel and educate oneself with specific programmes like Erasmus—the latter a true, untouchable totem for many of them. I personally met a woman (in her early thirties) who named her son Erasmus (sic.) and wanted (or so she told me) to name her unborn daughter Europa. The reason was that she had met her husband precisely thanks to this beautiful university exchange programme. It seems to me a more than valid reason to ruin two children’s lives. A bit like those in the past who named their children “Palmiro”, “Bettino” or “Benito”.

Europa Europa, everyone towards the Sun of the Future

The “differently young”, like yours truly, will almost certainly remember a nice television programme on Rai Uno, devised by Michele Guardì, Giorgio Calabrese and Mario Di Tondo and hosted by the Frizzi-Gardini duo, which was called “Europa Europa” (1988-1990, coincidentally). Who didn’t like the idea of a union, at least a spiritual and cultural one, of the European peoples? I certainly liked it, and like me so did countless others of my generation and previous ones too. A pity, though, that it was an illusion and we didn’t realise it. Even with broadcasts like the one I have just mentioned, the idea was slowly instilled in the masses that Europe was the promised land. None of us, or at least the majority of us, imagined that in reality it was a carefully prepared poisoned dish, featuring a single course: the economic one through which to govern the peoples. The chosen chef? Germany, of course.

Civil rights in exchange for social ones

The mainstream media—television, newspapers and the Internet—has for years bombarded public opinion with messages aimed, on the one hand, at normalising certain categories of people such as homosexuals, the LGBT community and those who had been unjustly humiliated and marginalised by society, and on the other, strongly advocating the progressive granting of civil rights, sacrosanct in the vast majority of cases, in favour of these categories. But it has taken great care not to highlight the fact that all this was obtained in exchange for so-called social rights, won through years and years of hard battles and fierce confrontations by previous generations. In practice, on the one hand, the message was passed that removing, for example, Article 18 of the Workers’ Statute was something inevitable, due to contemporary times in which the evolution of the economy dictated a “lean” and “mobile” labour market; but on the other hand, the right for homosexual couples to enter into a regular marriage was granted (again, for example). As if this latter, sacrosanct civil right were somehow compensatory for the theft committed on the social level. All this was cleverly orchestrated, aided and abetted by a political class that was at best inept, at worst colluding. Well, the youthful masses were mobilised to lend support to this voice, cleverly rallied via Internet platforms, with demonstrations of solidarity and support for these causes, just as had happened internationally for the protests organised in favour of the “Arab Spring” or the “Orange Revolution”. A pity the young didn’t do the same to maintain the social rights that have been constantly stripped away from them over the last few years, turning their own generation into a mass of unemployed people, destined to be on precarious contracts for life.

Greta, the “Gretins”, not forgetting… the “Sardines”

A fragile and (therefore) fickle and easily manipulable generation. This is the result of the constant work done by multiple international organisations on the youngest, exerting relentless pressure on their consciences through the social media now widely used by us all. Movements in favour of the environment were born, such as that of the seventeen-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg, a young girl who suddenly shot to international prominence precisely thanks to the massive hype generated by the global media for her climate protests, initially staged in front of the Riksdag in Stockholm. From mid-August 2018, she began a school strike until the Swedish elections in September, after which it became a regular fixture every Friday, thus launching the Fridays for Future movement which, above all, large masses of young people began to join. The latter were undoubtedly moved by good intentions (who could say that climate protection isn’t important?), but was the “Greta phenomenon” really just the endeavour of an unknown little girl who suddenly became a fully-fledged star received with great pomp by Heads of State and religious authorities? Only a fool, or the most manipulable of minds, could think so. That behind such a phenomenon lay the vast international industry manufacturing “green” technologies is fairly intuitive, even if not directly provable. Now, courtesy of the forced global shutdown of productive activities and means of transport, you will see that due to the subsequent drop in polluting particles in the air, people will say that “Greta was right”. It will be said that all productive technologies must be converted to “green”, without mentioning, however, that very often these pollute the environment more than traditional ones, as in the case of the required energy and the problem of the waste deriving from the disposal process of electric car batteries. Be that as it may, riding the emotional wave of the young Swede’s message, those political parties drawing on the idea of an environmentally compatible society have experienced a massive relaunch. The Greens, particularly in Germany, are a glaring example. In the 2017 federal elections, in fact, they had barely reached 8.9 per cent of the vote. Just two years later, at the European elections, they leaped to 20.5 per cent, decisively usurping the second position from the oldest social democracy in the world, represented by the SPD (which plummeted to 15.8 per cent), effectively taking its place in the preferences of the Germans in a hypothetical new governing coalition. And guess who voted in the majority for the green party par excellence? Bien sûr, young people in the 25 to 40 age bracket. Was für eine große Überraschung! as they would say around here (what a huge surprise!).

Berlin, du bist so wunderbar

Special attention regarding the German youth phenomenon should be reserved for the city of Berlin, a veritable social experiment in this regard (just as much as, again in my opinion, Italy is an experiment for mass phenomena deriving from emotional factors, highly instinctive and not at all rational). The German capital is in fact a catalyst (not by chance) for young people coming from all over the world. Truth be told, it has been for a long time, and for two very specific historical reasons. The first is that Berlin has always been considered a “libertine” city with loose morals. And this dates back to the end of the 19th century. The second is that the Wall created a highly peculiar micro-cosmos in the western part; given its isolation within the former GDR, it meant that only the young and dropouts wanted to live in the enclave. This was in exchange for considerable economic advantages and a wide margin of freedom due to the implicit complicity of the FRG (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) governments, who faced the non-secondary problem of keeping “alive” a city in which no German wanted to relocate. Therefore, they turned a blind eye, or even two, to glaring “anomalies” within the framework of state rules, as well as bankrolling West Berlin with a veritable river of cash and drugs precisely for this “social” purpose. In short, freedom galore, in every sense, which attracted “free spirits” from all over the world. All this created the “myth” of Berlin, which compliant media helped to amplify even after the fall of the Wall, when things in reality began to change, and not a little (except for the drugs). But that is enough. In the collective imagination, Berlin has remained the city of the “possible”, where everything is permitted and transgression is the order of the day. Which is certainly still true, at least in part. What is no longer true is the fact that it is a land of milk and honey. Quite the contrary… However, for the reasons stated above, it remains an element of irresistible attraction for the young, who are drawn to it like bees to honey, mistaking multiculturalism (multi-kulti) for egalitarianism. It is not true that we are all equal; if anything we have the same rights, in a rule of law, but each with our own characteristics and abilities that make us unique and unrepeatable individuals. For these young people, the open society of Popperian memory is another totem, failing to understand that cosmopolitanism is quite a different thing from homogenisation, and that differences should if anything be preserved and not erased in the name of a hypocritical welcome. If one looks at official statistics, the highest percentage of Berlin residents is precisely the generation between 25 and 45 years old, that is, exactly the “Millennials” spoken of at the beginning of this long article. What better field for a social experiment could one find for someone wishing to “test” the suggestibility, or even the manipulation, of a youth demographic rendered “sensitive” over time to messages of social empathy and, indeed, to civil or ecological issues? And it is never a coincidence that the largest slice of the electorate for the Grüne, the German Greens, falls precisely into the same age bracket. A tiny separate chapter should be devoted to the young Italians present in Germany, particularly in the Capital. I shall refrain from making comments on specific individuals, whom I could well cite, both “influencers” and not, to draw a merciful veil over people who display a nauseating pedantry, contradictory in their “ideas”, and of an abysmal ignorance, in the technical sense of the term and otherwise.

Anti… something and Sardines aplenty

Greta’s is not the only movement that has set the younger generations in motion. Recently in Italy, in fact, there was that of the so-called “Sardines”. Born “shove-taneously” (no, it is not a spelling mistake, spintaneamente from spinta, a push), it manifested itself as a breath of air against the big bad ogre, the “boogeyman” as they would say in Rome, the antichrist of Italian politics, namely Matteo Salvini, former Minister of the Interior and political head of the Lega. Notice to sailors: I am not a Lega supporter, I never was nor will I ever be, so any polemics or labels one might wish to pin on me (as has already been done) would miss the point of the issue I am raising entirely, and are a waste of time. My personal political judgement on the character in question, whilst being as negative as that towards all the other major political leaders of our wretched Country, is not relevant to this argument. The theme is not in fact Salvini or Meloni, but rather the ideas behind those who would like to oppose them. That is to say, absolute nothingness. Personally, I believe that this “movement” and those four little characters brought to prominence by our homegrown, power-sucking media, are the fruit of an international financial elite that has well understood that the parties—particularly the PD—which until now have, so to speak, pulled the cart of the neo-liberal message masked as “left-wing” values, no longer hoodwink an exhausted populace, worn out by years of economic harassment and intellectual swindles, quite as well as they used to. The stomach has no ears, as Cato the Censor used to say. When you pull the rope too tight, you risk breaking it for good. And the antiphon sung by the parties in the service of big international capital has almost reached the end of its cycle, the bluff of the Five Stars having also come to light, a party created at a desk to harness the people’s anger. Therefore, what is to be done? And here is the rabbit pulled out of the hat of the wise father of the Homeland (one of many) Romano Prodi, the architect on two occasions of Berlusconi’s defeat (the other “boogeyman” defeated in the past by the aforementioned “left-wing” party). If the parties no longer pull in the crowds, let’s bet on the young as a driving force. Et voilà, out are pulled four thirty-somethings, captained by Mattia Santori, nicknamed by malicious tongues “the curls with nothing underneath”, who on the occasion of the last regional elections, primarily those of the last PD stronghold, Emilia Romagna, worked very hard to rally a slumbering “left-wing” populace that by now seems little attracted by the broken party sirens (another generation of 30-to-50-year-olds reared specifically to take the place of the old PCI leaders, by now a very pale memory for a few). An incredible media campaign was waged by our compliant media. The four horsemen of the apocalypse were invited everywhere, as if they were great political experts, only to make incredible slip-ups like the famous photo with Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani. Having almost fallen into oblivion, they were recently exhumed, what a coincidence, by Lilli Gruber on an episode of Otto e mezzo. Preparations are underway for the post-Coronavirus era. They will be needed, given the trend, especially economically, that our Country is taking following the at best disastrous decisions of Giuseppi’s current Government. A little pearl from Santori was the brilliant idea of a “horizontal wealth tax, guaranteed by the Government”. Which is to say: few ideas, but confused ones. Anyway, the idea of a wealth tax was also brought up again by another paladin of “left-wing” neo-thinking, the genius of Italian gastro-philosophy Oskar Farinetti (a great friend of the líder máximo, whose consensus is now waning, but who remains a great political strategist, Matteo Renzi). To sum up, they have forged individuals with fragile psyches (many young people are forced to resort to psychotherapeutic treatments), unaccustomed to problematising reality, and thrust a mobile phone into their hands (to tell the truth, they thrust it into all of our hands), through which they send daily impulses directing them towards specific directions. A gigantic test of Pavlovian memory. In short, a pretty picture emerges from an examination of the generation that is supposed to lead our world in this period of pandemics, fake or otherwise. The lance that I said at the beginning I felt like breaking in favour of these young people is not, in fact, directed at the majority, but if anything at a small minority belonging to it, which does make some effort to understand the reality surrounding it, beyond the sung mass and the easy ready meals laid out for them. They try to do it, even if often (but not always) they do not possess all the adequate cultural tools. They are people who at least make the effort to see beyond the obvious, not settling for the mainstream narrative and the relative bombardment to which they are subjected daily. They have curiosity, they search. Even to see the other side of the Moon. They are the only hope we have left.