Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Sholder Pain After Cold Drink

Construction / martyr, and the strategies of consent: about the National Day of the Vegetative State

La decisione del Governo di istituire la Giornata Nazionale degli Stati Vegetativi il 9 Febbraio, anniversario della morte di Eluana Englaro, rappresenta un tentativo di mistificarne la memoria che lascia allibiti. Nel comunicato di partecipazione redatto dalla sottosegretaria alla Salute Eugenia Roccella, Eluana, da simbolo della lotta per la propria autodeterminazione, diventa martire di una magistratura assassina, incarnazione di un diritto allo Stato Vegetativo negato. Alla sua vicenda viene conferita una esemplarità che, in assoluta malafede, la piega a prova del 9 di un teorema politico.

Ma come spiegare la sfacciataggine di chi per costruire consensi attorno alla propria ideologia si rivolge proprio alle vicende umane che ne hanno rappresentato lo scacco?
Siamo di fronte ad una retorica capace di riassorbire ogni devianza, ogni percorso altro, sterilizzandolo e rifunzionalizzandolo nel quadro di una narrazione pro-vita che tutto ingloba; una narrazione tanto totale quanto totalitaria. Totalitaria, infatti, continua ad apparirci la volontà to erect a certain concept of life, built as part of the militant fundamentalist Catholic, to the rank of universal and includes all that, then, can all standards.


The individuality as Eluana, have escaped this ideological imperialism, resulting in the free choice on himself, then have an a-rule is due to an orderly framework for accession, although posthumously. We are faced with the delirium of a totalitarian 'ideology that when it fails to control the living bodies is aimed at normalizing the memory. So this is no longer the place of conflict but a plurality of homogeneity ideologically pacified. To quote verbatim the statement: "With Eluana this day the memory of a memory that will no longer divide but a moment to share a goal that unites us all." Too bad that this alleged peace is once again built on the bodies and in spite of themselves. Active or inactive they are, made of flesh or memory, they remain the place to assert the primacy of a party in power.

At least it seems unsatisfactory as a political response to the proposal to set up on February 9th Day of freedom of choice over their lives. We do not care more monumental struggles with strokes of National Days, nor to make an individual story as that of a saint Eluana easily exploitable. These responses seem to fit in there anyway in the wake of a mindset that sees the bodies and their agents but the memory of a political battle field. In this mindset, we say that the political value of a life can not be determined retrospectively by the celebratory rhetoric of those who survive but only by the struggle that it embodied.



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