There are many generations who, during their childhood, grew up with such children's fiction classics as "The Grinch" or "The Chocolate Factory." Unfortunately, in the very countries from which these classics originated, they are increasingly being targeted by extremist proponents of cancel culture.
How did political correctness come about? What are the historical, social and cultural roots of such a disturbing phenomenon? Those who have tried to give an answer is Francesco Erario in his first book, "Woke. The Birth of a New Ideology," published by Idrovolante.
The trial shows how the new drifts of political correctness are far less hegemonic than people believe. A lesson to remember, because the #Metoo advocates will not give up so easily: they have lost a battle, but the war is still on.
The arrival of the social credit system in Italy is imagined by journalist and writer Mario Arturo Iannaccone in his novel "The Escape," where many parallels between the imagined future and our present appear quite disturbing.
Nathan Greppi, a contributor to the Centro Studi Machiavelli, was interviewed by Pierluigi Pellegrin on Radio Libertà. Greppi talked about his article "Other than Eurovision. Here's to you 12 famous right-wing singers (yesterday's and today's)," in which he ranks the best right-wing politically aligned musicians and groups.
Eurovision does nothing but reinforce the stereotype that singers (at least successful ones) are always and only progressive. Yet there have been and are many music artists who are openly right-wing.
Many are the prophecies attributed to the Simpsons series. But there is a phenomenon that they were certainly able to intercept in unsuspected times, when it still aroused little attention, and that today is a much discussed topic: the woke ideology in American (and not only) universities.
In 2006, many current developments, especially regarding the excesses of feminism, were already predicted in Harvey Mansfield's essay " Manliness ". In this era it is necessary to rediscover what it means to be a male, beyond ideological preconceptions.
Although in the mainstream discourse satire (at least the "good" kind) is always and only of the left, there is also a long tradition on the right. From the experience of "Candido" and Giovannino Guareschi to the digital cartoonists, passing through "LiberoVeleno", we retrace this tradition and question ourselves on the weight that satire and memes have today in the "battle of ideas". (IN ITALIAN)
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