- Dietrismo... yes. Thanks for posting that Craig. Archived Message
- A Bipolar Order? WOLFGANG STREECK - Craig B May 3, 2023, 4:34 pm
Posted by Ken Waldron
on May 3, 2023, 8:40 pm, in reply to "A Bipolar Order? WOLFGANG STREECK"
| "Italians, it is said, are given to a perspective on politics that they call dietrismo. Dietro means behind, and dietrismo means a habitualized conviction that what you see is designed to hide what you get, by powers operating behind a curtain that divides the world into a stage and a backstage, the latter being where the real action is, the former where it is purposely mispresented. You read something, or hear about it on the radio or on TV, and as a well-trained dietrista you wonder, not so much about what you are being told but why you are being told it, and why now..." |
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