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Pasolini Pasolini Pasolini thirty years later. Holder so I could have this article, echoing the many initiatives that have taken place in recent days for the thirtieth anniversary of the death of the poet, director and writer. However I would prefer moving away from the many eulogies "stragglers" from the deep bows of fact and easy, I prefer not to take this opportunity to say what Pasolini was good and what we lack, but because Pasolini is a key figure for the life of our young people. And I do this with some emotion, which comes from two reasons. First, I speak a figure that I really care. Second, I do it on the pages of Elemento38, I directed two years ago.
"We applaud only the clichés, but would it be to cultivate the atrocities of the doubt," says the young Pasolini in the square in 1975. The question, then here is the first value to be treasured. Doubt it means to be in a critical position towards the world around us, wondering if it really gives us the prosperity that is real or apparent (see "Notes for a poem in Lapland" by The New Youth, 1975). This theme also emerges from the words of the crow / Marxist intellectual film Hawks and the Sparrows (1966), which states: "My parents are Mr. Doubt and Mrs. Consciousness. "
Here, conscience: that of Pasolini is a real critical consciousness and civil in their origins and love for your country, able to stand in opposition against a sick society of consumerism, a consciousness in need of a poem and true to his word the literal meaning to convey their beliefs (up to accusations of being without poetry-poetry, cf. Raboni G., The poem is done, 2005) and its strong diversity, while perceived as excruciating pain, it was proved to be a big plus. Pasolini, with his own life, teaches us to challenge the approval requires that this mass society, ie his desire greedy to see us all equal, in rights (or duties), but the material needs and consumption. It teaches us to have the courage to be ourselves and make different choices, even when it goes against the fashion and the thinking of the majority.
The latter figure is that I would like to analyze the political passion of Pasolini. I regret to note that today, influenced by a kind of egocentrism fundamentalist sponsored largely by the media and tacitly left to run by the same generation that took to the streets in 1968, we are young we completely disinterested in politics, perceiving it as something remote that does not concern us. In these circumstances, the lifetime of Pasolini to provide an example to follow. As early as the year of his youth, he begins to construct a complex and original of a Marxist political thought that develops from there to locate in Antonio Gramsci, a sort of "spiritual brother" (The Ashes of Gramsci, 1957), and that allows him to analyze the world and society through acute observations. This resulted in a series of papers and newspaper articles, among which should be mentioned the pirates Writings (1975). Pasolini invites us to be part of society, not to ignore politics but to take part with enthusiasm.
Doubt, conscience, diversity and political passion: these are just some of the lessons that Pier Paolo Pasolini deliver to us young people, which is worth to treasure; a kind of coordinates to enter the world of the great writer, which, ultimately, is our world, our society.
Joe
suggested reading: PPP
The dream of a thing (novel), Garzanti 1962
PPP Poems (auto-poetic anthology), Garzanti 1970
PPP Writings Corsairs (collection of articles), Garzanti 1975
MA Bazzocchi Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bruno Mondadori 1998
G. Jori Rai Educational and Pasolini (book and cassette), Einaudi 2001
