Pasolini on consumeristic civilization (eng sub)

 Pasolini on consumeristic civilization (eng sub)

https://youtu.be/bipWHxTi-3c?si=jKt7eyrwRHBJvGn7

here we are in front of the structure, the shape, the profile of another city, immersed in a strange, grey, lagoon light, altough surrounded by a beatiful mediterranean maquis, it's sabaudia. How we made fun, we intellectuals, of the regime architecture, of cities like sabaudia, and yet looking at this city now we feel something completely unexpected: it's architecture has nothing unreal, ridiculous, the passing of time made it so that this architecture, lictoreal like, takes a quality, so to speak, inbetween metaphisical and realistics, metaphisical in a truly european way, that resembles the art of the chirico, and realistics because, seen from the distance, you feel that the cities are made, speaking in a somewhat rethorical way, to the measure of men, you really feel like there are families in there, proper families, human people, complete living being, whole, full in their humbleness. How do we explain such a thing? which seems miraculous, a ridiculous city, fascist, that seems so charming to us: we have to examine this fact, I mean, Sabaudia was built by the regime, there's no doubt about it, but in fact it has nothing fascist, if only some exterior traits, so I think that fascism, the fascist regime, in the end was nothing more than a bunch of criminal who took the power, and those empowered criminals in fact could do nothing, they were not able to leave a mark, not even scratch the surface, of the Italian reality, and so Sabaudia, even if it was built by the regime following certain rationalistic criteria, academically aesthetizing, doesn't found it's root in the regime that built it, it's rooted in that reality that fascist dominated with tiranny but couldn't touch, I mean it's the small-town, rustic, paleoindustrial etc. etc. reality that sprouted sabaudia, not fascism. But now it's the opposite, the regime is a democratic one, but that indoctrination, that homologation that fascism couldn't obtain, the power of today, which is the consumer civilization, instead realizes it perfectly, destroying all the specific reality, taking away reality to the different ways of being human that Italy storically produced in such differentiated ways, It's this indoctrination that is destroying Italy for real, I can say without a doubt that the truth fascism it's exactly this power of the consumistic civilization. And this thing happened so quickly that we didn't even noticed! it's kinda like a nightmare, that happened in the last five, six, seven, ten years, it's like a nightmare during which we have witnessed Italy crumbling all around us, disappearing, perhaps now we are awakening from this nightmare only to look around and find out that there's nothing we can do anymore.

美しい地中海のマキに囲まれているにもかかわらず、奇妙な灰色のラグーンのような光に包まれている。私たち知識人は、サバウディアのような体制建築や都市をどんなに馬鹿にしてきたことだろう： キリコの芸術に似た、真にヨーロッパ的な意味での形而上学と、遠くから見て、都市がどこか再神話的な方法で語られながら作られているのを感じる現実主義である、 人間の尺度で言えば、そこに家族がいるような、きちんとした家族がいるような、人間らしい人間がいるような、完全な生きとし生けるものがあるような、全体として、その謙虚さに満ちあふれているような。

そんなことをどう説明すればいいのだろう？奇跡的とも思える、ばかげた都市、ファシスト、それが私たちにはとても魅力的に見える： つまり、サバウディアが政権によって建設されたことは間違いないが、実際には、外見上の特徴だけで、ファシズム的なものは何もない、 だからサバウディアは、たとえ政権がある合理主義的な基準に従って建設し、学問的に美学を追求したとしても、その根源は建設した政権にあるのではなく、ファシストがティラニーで支配しながらも手を出せなかった現実に根ざしているのだ。つまり、ファシズムではなく、サバウディアを芽生えさせたのは、小さな町、田舎、古工業などの現実なのだ。

しかし、今はその逆で、政権は民主的なものだが、ファシズムが得られなかった教化、同質化、消費文明である今日の力が、代わりにそれを完璧に実現し、すべての特殊な現実を破壊し、イタリアが歴史的に生み出してきたような分化した人間のさまざまなあり方から現実を奪っている。 そして、このことは、私たちが気づかないほど急速に起こった！ 過去5年、6年、7年、10年の間に起こった悪夢のようなものだ、 まるで悪夢のようだ。その悪夢の中で、私たちはイタリアが崩壊し、消滅していくのを目の当たりにしてきた。