Apparently, Italy is so rich that it can afford to entertain the world with a novel and highly counter-productive model of power, the sort of power that seeks only to maintain its death hold on society and government at all costs.
Now by Italian law Noemi is not- and was not- jail bait, such as in the Polanski case, even though it was suspected at some point. Consensual sex starts at sixteen here, rather than the U.S. eighteen. Further consensual sex between minors or between youngsters within a close age group is not considered criminal.
I recall off hand two studies on the relation between power and sex: Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism and Gadda's Eros e Priapo. Gadda takes his libel further in that he perceives the primacy of priapism as a national zeitgeist as a disaster for the state in that it negates logos.
As for coherence, honesty and transparency in all aspects of political and institutional engagement, it's a matter of plain efficacity and open contract with the citizenry.
In the present Italian experiment, power is distributed through subservience, sex, falsehood and obscurity, rather than merit. It is forcibly incompetent. Italy is presently erected on a totemic partouze reduced to a gaggle of sycophants placed in key positions and tantalized with stereotyped female bodies, all at the service of a furybound Pornarchos.
I recall off hand two studies on the relation between power and sex: Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism and Gadda's Eros e Priapo.
The media talk about it endlessly, but it has the feel of a lifestyle option to be accumulated and experienced, like a good three piece suite, rather than anything livelier.
Reich should be happy. But somehow I don't think this is what he had in mind.
The US remains insane - explosively unable to cope with a nipple, but perfectly happy to turn out and view endless gun play, torture and shopping porn.
