I found some minutes for my blogroll and I red this post of Beppe Grillo on a crime story (the article is in Italian only) in southern Italy. It is just one of those stories that appears more and more frequently in the news. We tend to underestimate its value because of this bias of repetition, but in fact, it is an horrible example of how our society is becoming more and more corrupt.

Crime is bad, but there are different kinds of crimes. Violence is bad, but there are different kinds of violence. Given a certain series of circumstances we should try to understand people who committed violent crimes. However, when it comes to violence on minors, then I am not able to feel any forgiveness in my heart. It is the one-case where I doubt about the death penalty, and worse …

Two portraits fits very well in our evolving-society: the first one that came to my mind was Primo Levi‘s book “If this is a Man“; the second is Marco Risi’s movie “il Branco“.

I feel sad, and scared: where are we going?