The wonderful (as unrealized) dream of isonomy

One of the myths of the Enlightenment is that of a law that is the same for everyone: today we see that not only is this not true, but that this is the problem….

Isonomy is a wonderfully democratic principle and, at the same time, expresses a formidable political and ideological rigidity.
It is democratic because nothing resets social differences more than the knowledge that, before the law, no one can enjoy particular benefits linked to rank, census or one’s relationships.
At the same time, the absolute inflexibility of the judge is implied: a sort of icy juridical divinity, abstract and untouchable, who implacably strikes the offender, whoever he may be.
In short, if the State wants to be credible in its secularity, it must be, at the same time, aristocratic in the determination of good and evil and democratic in the judicial application of this discrimination.
Vice versa, the Italian State, perhaps due to elements of an anthropological nature of its people, perhaps due to the intrinsic weakness of the system and, perhaps, due to the redundant plethora of its thousands of laws, almost never applies isonomy.

From Habsburg Verantwortung to ostentatious irresponsibility
A (conformist) society of shame ready for oblivion
When the real problem is not the “how much” but the “why”

Not even a semblance of the idea of legal reciprocity

I will say more: Italy does not even have a semblance of the idea of legal reciprocity. The law, in a country where civil trials last for decades, cannot be the same for everyone: those who can afford to pay a lawyer for life have a good chance of winning.
This is only one of many examples. Another one, very actual and striking, was the Gay Pride: a kind of colored carnival, in which the many variants of human sexuality are declined “en travesti”, often with antics of dubious taste.
Well, the theme of this last multiversal jamboree was, inevitably, the controversial Zan decree. According to the supporters of the measure, there would be an urgent need to stem the rampant persecution campaign in place against anyone who disregards the man-woman line.
Now, apart from the fact that I don’t see this frightening persecution at all, at the beginning of the procession there was a fool disguised as Jesus Christ, carrying a cross with a series of writings and drawings offensive to Catholic morals.
Inevitable premise: I am not Catholic and, for me, one can also mate with a dishwasher and marry an armadillo.
Having said that, if the concept of isonomy really existed in Italy, the idiot would be prosecuted for the same reason for which he asks that homophobes be prosecuted: neither more nor less.

What if Soccer is the most reliable social marker?
Don’t ask us for words: in Italy we no longer have any…
A century and a half of incorrigible “southern question”

The Italy of protected categories above the law

With the difference that Italian Catholics are not an oppressed minority, but a majority. Instead, in the Bel Paese, there are protected categories, above the law, who can do, say and practice whatever they want.
Try to have a car accident involving an African person and address him or her as if he or she were one of your fellow countrymen: you would not be happy about it, because calling an Italian an “asshole” is the corollary of an established accident culture, while calling a foreigner an “asshole” immediately connotes you as a dangerous racist. With appropriate legislation, ready to be triggered.
Thus, you kneel for a victim and pretend that another victim does not exist. In short, you never practice isonomy: the law serves only to defend mine and prosecute yours.
Like everything, as always, in Italy. And so, we might as well go back to the Ancien Régime, with all due respect to the Enlightenment, to Rousseau, to his five children abandoned to the Enfants-Trouvés and to his illiterate and succubus wife.
Because the great hypocrisy, the myth of the law that is the same for everyone as long as it suits me, was born right there. Like almost all the evils that are bringing Western civilization to its knees. Amen.

The unsustainable and eternal stupidity of the censorship algorithm
One hundred and sixty years of Italy, not even one of federalism …
So the emergency in Italy has become a perennial normality