By: Ahmed ELNAHAS – Montopoli, December 21st 2013,
No one
really had fully understood the infinite nuances and shades of this verse. Here
is one slim part from its vast universe. In Henrik Ibsen’s master piece “The Pillars
of Society” telling the story, taking place in the late 19th
century, of a small village in the rigid northern Norwegian lands that lives revolving
around its Consol Bernick, who in his
turn lives in and by the function that his people have gladly
conceded; since all venerated him as the faithful husband, the
exemplary father, the honest businessman, and the upright politician.
In fact
that angel mask of moralist humanitarian that he constantly wore, had hidden beneath
it the pervert who had a daughter from a third raw artist convincing another
man to take the wrap and assume the fatherhood; the villain who ran a love
affair with his sister in law yet he married her sister whom he never loves or
cared for; the cruel father that mistreated his son by the whip; and the
unscrupulous businessman running his firms to accumulate tons of golden profit
money thanks to corruption and his political activity, both serving him
fattening his power other than his bank account.
Yet,
every time a piece of his non-confessed past comes afloat, he cleverly managed
to justify and obscure it completely before the others and even in his own
eyes.. Because he always did everything
for a good reason and the best interest of the collectivity.. Didn’t he? Isn’t he
is the ‘Pillar Of The Society’?.. That to his good name are depending all the
sorts of the entire community, of “hundreds
of families that would end up flat down on the pavement”?!!
That is
why the ‘TRUTH’ should never be
known.. It would be Destabilising..
He’s ready to do anything, even to kill, just to strangle the truth.. In the
course of self-absolving his person, he disburses statements like: “Politic is corrupt because the people are
corrupt”; or even “behind the soul of
every man there is a stain that is better to hide”, because “should all the truth be known, all my
existence will go in pieces and with it the entire Country”.
This
person is only a man void of qualities, and deeply obsessed by perfectly
mastering the role of the ‘Pillar’ that he has rigidly marbled the character so
as to always thrive forward his own self-made monument. He’s convinced of being
“the only living guarantee for the
progress of his community”, and should it coincide with his own interests,
then it’s nothing but a “fortunate
combination”.
Nobody in
his court, except the scapegoat to his initial sin, would dare tell him that
the only way to liberate the society is nothing else but the Truth. Instead, the inept,
pietistic, traffickers and ass-kissers of his entourage will confirm him, in
the ever grandeur hypocrisy, as the Whited Sepulchre:
so that in order to save the society his (sepulcher) whole structure must be
defended.
In a country where Power is interlaced with Crime,
truth is not only revolutionary.. It is subversive.
M.
Travaglio.
Pass On The
Word.
Ref. Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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