The Man Who Gos has toured the world, has seen many and has read even more, for this reason nothing more impresses him, nor does it frighten him, in the face of this something always amazes him, especially the delation, slander, useless fury, hypocrisy.
The news story, the news not news, the crime not a crime that a few months ago has engaged military summits, prosecutors of the republic, TG and newspapers have made resurface in the head of the Man Who goes in amazement, because in the end the case It was born of an action, a photo stolen in a private room, a place where young people spend their nights between a service and the other, places where depersonalization is such that sometimes you feel the need to give a personal touch to four gray walls offered by the state to his servants, who then, to use a jargon, long ago too abused, were not those in prison who were given the title of "guests of the state"?
The reflection of the Man Who Gos is not linked to the news but the news mentioned is not news, this nonsense bar was a starting point, an incentive to invite to look beyond or better to encourage everyone to look inside the condition of the military and to deepen a series of themes built on the nothingness of misunderstandings.
Since we are talking about the West, we make 500 years before Christ, little bit more, less penny, this part of the world, which we belong to and that everything owes to Classical Greece, saw men in arms join in those who speak the language Italian calls armies or with a linguistically more common noun in other armed nations - the Man Who Gos will use armies from now on. -
These social groups are, without a big theme of denial, framed in two categories: armies of the people and mercenary armies, in turn the armies of the people are distinguished between voluntary and conscript armies.
Such human groups, over the years, have alternated according to the forms of State and Government gradually imposed, first in the Mediterranean and subsequently beyond the Atlantic, there have been armies of people already conscripted by the Persian Wars and up to the Second World War , armies of volunteers during the French revolution, at the time of the bourgeois revolts of the 1848 and again in the war of Spain or in the campaigns of conquest of what will be from 1936 the Italian East Africa.
The religious wars that bloody Europe between the Middle Ages and the modern age were wars of conscripts or volunteers based on the reasons of this or that people, of this or that creed, while the entire Italian Communal era was characterized, like the Crusades moreover, from mercenary troops, men ready to do anything to obtain money, land, and noble titles.
A substratum of this kind could not but leave in the soul of Western men an extremely tangled skein whose ranks were able to pull them with two ideological-normative stratagems that in the course of the twentieth century were the State Nation, however theorized a century before and the concept of permanent enemy, an ideological approach, the latter typical of Wilhelminian Germany and eclectically adapted from the USA, first against the red danger and then, with the suppression of the bipolar opposition, against the "functional" dangers in general .
Dear Man Who Goes, looking for you have made a premise of funny story, you put a mask to look at the water of the sea of history and you offered a point of view concerning one of the many objects of confusion of this western world, it will be appropriate to say where you are going.
The Man Who Gos is never standing still, perhaps because he has already found it, this is why he offers ideas through aerial surveys in thought and conscience and then strikes decisively where it hurts most.
After all the concepts just offered, which should all be kept in mind, it is appropriate to say something about the Italic things and the merit of the news not news of the Germanic flag that caused so much clamor, until arriving at three poor days of delivery.
Republican Italy among the thousand ambiguities of which it has been and is the victim, must deal with the inability to handle military affairs, the frustration of the painful defeat of the 1940 - 1945 has caused the ruling classes to generate a defense model structured on the army of people without a people, so on the Constitution is praised the sacred duties, but in the barracks the citizens have been treated, for all the time of compulsory leverage, by conscripts precisely, with this approach what did you want out of it?
An elefantiaco, bureaucratic military instrument, badly tolerated and absolutely ineffective, net of some excellences, of elementary licenses, of the licenses issued as a soporum or palliative and of memories of youth, capable of making sweet the memory of any wickedness.
In the 2005 the same ruling class that supported the abomination of the army of conscripts without political-military constriction, gave birth, following a series of bureaucratic meatloafs, an even worse leviathan, the army of paid volunteers, ie men and later women who perform an ethical act that binds them to a higher body, representative of an entire community, provided that the same body corresponds to a wage that does not have to be sufficient for the survival of the volunteer, but must ensure an adequate standard of living to the qualification obtained and proportionate to the family that intends to create, as well as a pension and a social state, in short, the volunteer becomes employed, coming to trigger a moral paradox for which: I pledge to offer the absolute provided that I match the concrete.
To understand each other, the Man Who Go does not regret that the military are salaried, as he considers the overcoming of conscription an act of civilization, but the Man Who Go hates the delation, the slander and above all the hypocrisy, by contrast loyalty and intellectual honesty, that same intellectual honesty that should lead us to say that on values we do not negotiate, that the oath is a sacred commitment and not a bureaucratic act, that if the working hours were introduced into the barracks and the relative laws of protection of civil servants, the military world, perhaps so much military, is no longer so, and therefore can not be expected that men in uniform are both heroes and bureaucrats according to the opportunities of third parties; they have been made public employees, they are used in such guise, in the course of their peculiarities certainly, but without depriving them of the constitutionally recognized rights to all citizens and please, do not go to revive oaths mentioned in 2018, given the The current situation no longer knows what to do with it.
Now we go back to where we started, to the news not news, to the young carabiniere with a flag of Wilhelminian Germany at the head of the bed, if we were to stick to the values patri should not be judged and condemned for references to Nazism, however historically lacking foundation , but for the fact that Germany, that of the Kaiser to be clear, was our enemy on the rocks of the Carso and on the Montegrappa, in the Adriatic and along the Piave, but since these are not the themes for which the young carabiniere is being judged then it would be better to keep quiet, after all our military leaders can do it very well, above all to protect privileges and prebends, they did so already during the 1820 - 1821 movements and continued with the defeats of 1866 and Caporetto, when the cannons fell silent commanded by the one who was still silent the September 8 and remained in the saddle well beyond the black twenty years.
The military leaders kept quiet when we were forced to enter NATO by selling off the Istrian and Dalmatian minorities and again in the years' 60 - '70 -' 80, seeing dying gentlemen like Dalla Chiesa and equally aware that the boys piled on the threshold of Gorizia they would have been wiped out in 72 hours, a little less or a little more.
After so many guilty silences perhaps this would have been the only time in which we would have preferred that the "stars" were left to watch, continuing to keep quiet, rather than to venture into three miserable days of delivery.
A Wanderer
