Debt and the Stability Pact are the real issues of the government
The challenges they have something of epic. Not surprisingly, from the time of the Iliad to the romances of chivalry and the endless films of Hollywood, they represent the topical moment of the action. But there are rules to be respected. If the challenger is clearly weaker, as when he is a child or – in the world of humanized animals – a much smaller beast than the “challenged”, the show for adults loses interest, because it is incredible; while he keeps it for the little ones because the story is told on the thread of the fable and the child pays no attention to the likelihood.
In fiction, even in the case of adults, the victory of “who had to win” is more frequent than normal, obviously because this is what the scriptwriter decides. And because the viewer, if he saw his “his” hero lose, would regret the money paid at the box office. The preordained result and the fantastic element unfortunately falsify the challenge and must therefore be inserted in moderation .: but the temptation must still be strong, if already Homerin the challenge between Hector and Achilles, has the goddesses intervene in the first person. Until the victory of Achilles.
The duel it tastes good when it appears honest and “realistic”. When he who throws the gauntlet is considered less strong than the title holder and yet is not so weak as to have to judge his audacity as a form of stupidity. The fight in conditions of fair play represents the “weighing”, the evaluation, and ultimately the judgment on the heroes. As happens in big boxing matches. The spectators – at least those who do not have a prejudiced side – wait to get excited about the old lion who kept the title, showing his pride and his endurance, or they admire the rise of a new star, and recognize that the old champion its time has passed. Maybe he’d better have retired earlier.
Life, on the other hand, is not spectacular in the sense we would like it to be. Things don’t always go as “right”. Not only does the strongest win even if he is unpleasant (Cassius Clay), but sometimes the weakest also wins, because he cheats; or the most immoral, the most cynical and even the most cruel. Those old enough to have lived through the 1956 Hungarian Revolution are now rare but they certainly remember how they trembled seeing an entire people fighting against a despicable and sadly much stronger enemy. Obviously the Red Army won. But some, including myself, have never forgiven Giorgio Napolitano (even though he is now a thousand years old) for having approved that repression. There are unspeakable crimes.
Real challenges have no subject writer. The “good hero” cannot be expected to win. In Warsaw ghetto it would have been nice for the Jews to win, threatened with extermination, but the Wehmacht won. While the Russians, a few kilometers away, watched impassively.
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