Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill

W. Shakespeare, Macbeth, act III - scene 2.

haven't blogged in a while. was actually trying to come out with a serious post, but was always lazy and kept forgetting about it. then tonight, as i was cycling back home, i found a big bag of garbage lying in the middle of the street. pretty unfamiliar, here around. at first i was kind of scared, thought it was a dead dog or something else that bad. fortunately not, was just garbage. probably some germany supporters celebrating their terribly boring victory were too much euphoric and decided to throw stuff around. semel in anno... v. german.

or maybe they just wanted to make me feel like at home.
so here's my serious post. collecting stories i read and others i heard from friends (special thanks to eu and eleo). couldn't possibly do information, not being there. will limit myself to express some feelings. quoting Macbeth to comment on garbage. seems like a good start.

to summarise: a few weeks ago, finally (?!) a new solution for the garbage problem in campania has been found: 10 new dumping grounds & 4 burning plants, whose ability in producing energy as a bypass product makes them an incredibly lucrative deal, as opposed to what they really are, ie. polluting & highly inefficient.
plus, one of the dumping grounds is going to be set up in a green area, one of the last in the region. is there anybody going to check what kind of waste is actually going to end up in there?! guess...

did we need 14 years to get this solution? i believe not. 14 years is a lot. 14 years to decide the most obsolete way to attack the problem is the one to be pursued. AGAIN.

many words have been spent elsewhere on this issue. but not lately.
lately the point is just the protests.
people protest because they don't want the garbage to pile up in the streets.
people protest because they don't want the garbage to go into dumping grounds.
kind of contradictory, isn't it? but with no further explanations, both statements are accepted as being products of the same source. doublethink.

and to avoid going beyond such a shallow and fast description of the protest, a new penal trend has been approved, along with dumping grounds & burning plants. which are going to be controlled by the army. and any protest form against the solution could be in principle prosecutable. another pillar of democracy bites the dust. what the definition of such protest form is, that is unclear. as is the explanation why modern, concrete and efficient ways to dispose of the garbage are not even remotely considered. not the reason. the reason is surely not unclear. the explanation.

the communication link has long gone missing.
ignorance is strength, after all.