What do you think of Italian comedian and ‘anti-politics’ politician wannabe Beppe Grillo?
Grillo has done essential things that he has staged in theatre. I fear that the anti-political climate currently being felt in Italy will become too general – that’s a bit distressing. I want politics to return to figures like Antonio Cangiano, the vice-mayor of Casapesenna (about 20km north of Naples). He refused to have a contract with the Camorra, and paid the price when they later shot him in the spine. I would like politics to become something made of denunciations and transformations. In a cafebabel.com brunch with Italian writer Erri de Luca, he criticised Gomorra as ‘a very well framed still shot, but which is already out of date after a month.’ He doesn’t really know the truth. Obviously everything changes quickly, but the economic models that are described in the book do not change because they are not only the models used by criminals, but the same ones used by capitalism.
