The most vulgar talk-show host or the dumbest and most sinister filmmaker can pass themselves off as real libertarians, and any violent aphasic steeped in some subculture or other will be duly anointed a young rebel by the intelligentsia, once he establishes the credentials of coming from a rough neighborhood. Precursors of a new world on which we are summoned to put a brave face, they make abundantly clear their perfect understanding of the unwritten rules clearly destined to replace the forms of sociability inherited from the past, and in the process of disappearing, because they are marked with a humanism troubling in every sense of the term. Contrary to what a complacent rhetoric asserts, most of these people have chosen to exclude themselves, and communicate only in the mode of provocation and confrontation, cultivating everything that sets them against the proletarians they despise, and who are their main victims. In any case, it demands an appropriate response, because nothing justifies acquiescence to hate-filled arrogance and terrorist provocation, whatever its source, except perhaps a certain conformism that is widespread on the left, and whose libertarian variant deserves a closer look. Because this kind of conformism is still strong enough today to block any serious thought on this question, and on others.
Life is really worth living.
As seen, in spite of the inevitable political co-optations, in the development, in 1998, of the movement Stop The Violence. 4. Le Monde Diplomatique , January 1998. 5. Editorial in Liberation , May 13, 1998. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dialogues en public , Ed. Pier Paolo Pasolini.