Opera characters who act out the tragedy of humanity. In “The Last Days of Humanity”, 1922 (with comics, one would still have to read the books every now and then), Karl Kraus prefigures our destiny. By favoring the parasitism of opinion over thought, we are transforming a huge tragedy into chatter, slogans, hysteria and fanaticism.
Every evening in the talk shows, the one who “shoots” the biggest questions wins; the controversies over Zerocalcare’s failure to participate in Lucca Comics have overshadowed the reports on the war and the cartoonist always forgets to mention the Hamas massacre at the origin of Israel’s reaction; social media are the altar of clichés, stumbling blocks of language and reasoning, they reassure us and strengthen us in the bastions of our beliefs, where massacre, addiction and anti-Semitism coexist with ease.
Without addressing the complexity, it is not possible to understand how the war of religion and terror promoted by Hamas affects the very existence of Israel and the West. Kraus described the First World War as a hallucinatory tangle of voices, a tribal ceremony disguised as democratic spontaneity, a shouting of groups around the corpse: “It is the last rite that holds civil society together.” Since then, more than a century has passed but the last days never end.
2023-11-04 22:24:56
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