Friday February 1, Rai Due stage forwarded In a face that resembles ... travel in the Constitution. Finally, a true glimpse of TV and high-commitment: a performance that goes beyond the theater, a hypertext that demonstrated his versatility even under a system of great performers: Monica Guerritore, Umberto Orsini, Massimo Popolizio, and before that Cortellesi Paola and Luca Zingaretti.
Discussing about the Constitution means taking a trip to the sources of liberalism and democracy, knowing that the journey is a fundamental experience of modern politics: just think of the journey in Tocqueville's American institutions or to the election of De Sanctis or trip motorcycle of the young Ernesto Guevara, to say nothing of the journey election Günther Grass, the result of Willy Brandt in Germany and the Cold War Ostpolitik. And also Carlo Levi, with his going to town and campaigns, through the "thousand homelands" of the peninsula, to find "in the appearance of Italy, not only the infinite reality special, the countless individual lives and the fabric of existence, but all the memory in a face that resembles Carry
...". So the discourse on the Constitution of Calamandrei, which have been reported in the show a lot of songs. I thank the site for sources of 'cultural association The third island, which has contributed to the show.
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Calamandrei Piero (1889-1956), student speech in Milan (1955)
The Constitution is not a machine that once set in motion goes without saying. The Constitution is a piece of paper, dropped it and does not move, why move must lose every day in the fuel must be put in the commitment, spirit, the will to keep these promises, his responsibility. That is one of the offenses that are made to the Constitution is indifferent to politics. It's a little 'a disease of young indifference. "Politics is a bad thing. What I care policy? ". When I listen to this speech, I am always reminded of that old little story that someone you know: two of those emigrants, two peasants who crossed the ocean on a rickety ship. One of these farmers slept in the hold and the other was on the bridge and noticed that there was a large storm with high waves, the ship rocked. So this farmer ipaurito application to a sailor: "But we are in danger?" And that says: "If this continues the sea in half an hour the ship sank." Then he runs into the hold to Sveg mate. He says, "Beppe, Beppe, Beppe, if it continues this sea the ship sinks. " What he says: "What do I care? Unn'è mica mine. " This indifference to politics.
is so beautiful, so comfortable! is not it? is so comfortable! The freedom is there, you live in climate of freedom. There's other things to do that interested in politics! Eh, I also know there are ... The world is so beautiful right? There are many beautiful things to see and enjoy, as well as deal with the politics! And politics is not a pleasant thing. But freedom is like air. You realize what it's worth when it begins to fail, when you hear that sense of asphyxiation men of my generation have felt for twenty years and I hope you'll never hear of young people.
And I hope you will not find you never feel this sense of anxiety, because you hope you manage to create the conditions for this sense of anxiety do not have to prove anything, every day reminding you that freedom must be vigilant, to watch giving its contribution to political life ...
So you young people to the Constitution must give your spirit, your youth, live it, feel it as your own, put in your spirit, civic awareness, to realize (this is one of the joys of life) to realize that none of us in the world is not alone, is not just that we in addition, that we are part of a whole, a whole within the limits of Italy and the world. Now I have little else to say. In the Constitution there is in all our history, all our past, all our pains, our troubles, our joys. They're all here resulted in these articles, and to understand sepere behind these articles you hear voices far ...
And when I read in art. 2: "the performance of mandatory duties of political solidarity, economic, social," or when I read in art. 11: "Italy repudiates war as an instrument of aggression against the freedom of other peoples', the Italian homeland in the midst of other homelands ... but this is Mazzini! this is the voice of Mazzini!
Or when I read in art. 8: "All religions are equally free before the law," but this is Cavour!
Or when I read in art. 5: "The Repubbllica one and indivisible, recognizes and promotes local autonomy," but this is Cattaneo! Or when
art. I read about 52 of the armed forces, "the ordering of the armed forces on the democratic spirit of the Republic," army of people, but this is Garibaldi!
And when I read in art. 27: "It is not permitted the death penalty," but this is Beccaria! Great voices distant, large names away ...
But there are also humble names, recent entries! How much blood, how much pain to get to this constitution! Behind every article of this Constitution, or young, you have to see young people like you who fell in battle, shot, hanged, tortured, starved to death in concentration camps, died in Russia, died in Africa, died on the streets of Milan, for streets of Florence, cha gave their lives for freedom and justice could be written on this cartr. So when I told you that this is a dead paper, no, not a dead paper, is a testament is a testament of a hundred thousand deaths.
If you want to go on pilgrimage to the place where she was born our Constitution, go to the partisans in the mountains where they fell, in prisons where they were imprisoned in camps where they were hanged. Wherever an Italian died to redeem the freedom and dignity, or young people go there, thinking, why they came to our Constitution.
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