Sunday, April 19, 2009

Some politics-fiction

Yesterday a friend of mine went to see a play called 'Out of order' by Ray Cooney. It was about something that was obvioulsy out of order and it had to do with a politician of the British parliament sleeping with the secretary of a member of the opposition. That is obvious, you would say. Nothing wrong about it. Nothing wrong with the fact that in England there is a business party and the opposition is a party that defends the interests of a class that does not exist anymore, aristocracy. And that they obviously sleep together.
If you think that this is normal...well you happen to be another victim of what George Orwell called Newspeak: they make you forget the real meaning of words such as democracy so you don't fight for it.
He also talked about Doublethink: to believe that something and its contrary are both true. For example you are not a business man, so you vote for the party of aristocracy, but you work in a hospital. So you are a nurse and at the same time a duke.

Ok, after destroying England it is France's turn. There this doublethink concept is still developing. So the rich people had to come up with different ideas. Were the rich people of France that took inspiration from the rich people of the USA in finding out how to make a party lose, or vice versa? I think this time the Frech had the best idea first. The formula of having a dumb woman running agaist the man you've chosen seems to work very well. And when she is running for office together with an old man...then it is smashing. It cannot but work.
I bet they came up with this idea during one of their 'dinner des cons', like in the famous movie, when they invite common people to have dinner with them, in their houses by the Tour Eiffel, in order to make fun of them.

But USA, UK, France are all rich countries, they've had colonies, they can afford to have a big gap between rich and poor without the poor noticing too much. Italy tried to have colonies but we clearly chose the wrong countries...no oil, no diamonds...But still there is hope for rich people to become richer. Hoping that by the time poor people will realize the gap they have become so dumb by watching TV not to notice it.

I have an idea for when Berlusconi manages to convince Italian people to vote in favour of a two-party system in July.
And if he goes on moaning all the time that a small party that is part of his coalition and has neo-nazi views does not want this law I think he can make it...
Hey see...Orwell's doublethink again: if you are against neo-nazis you vote in favour of a law that will destroy their party together with all the other small parties and you make of your country a totalitarian country. So you are an anti neo-nazi and a nazi at the same time.

Yes...when he manages to have a two-party system I'd suggest that the rich people of Italy that are his friends push to put at the head of the opposition party, that they also give money to, a dumb woman. Well...there are so many good candidates in the Italian parliament...But to make it funnier they could pretend that the ex-show girl, Mara Carfagna, whom Berlusconi seduced on TV, saying in front of the whole country that if he had not been married he would have married her, and that after a few months became minister in his government, decided to go to the opposition because of an unspecified reason. Jelousy...so that the Italian housewives could support her.
They could make her become the head of the oppostion so that the very dumb people could vote for her, and the not so dumb could vote for Berlusconi. Berlusconi would win and they could go on sleeping together. Happy couple.
Then he could privatize schools, and hospitals...and make the dream come true.

I should write him a letter to suggest this brilliant idea I have come up with...and only after a couple of months that I have been studying politics...imagine with what ideas I could come up with if I could make money out of politics!

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