Girlfriend In A Coma: How the most beautiful country in the world knocked itself out
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Former Economist Editor Bill Emmott explores Italyโs political, economic and social decline over the past 20 years, the product of a moral collapse unmatched anywhere else in the West.
The Italian language has a refined equivalent of the earthier Anglo-Saxon expression about โfecal matterโ hitting the fan: โThe knots are reaching the comb,โ they say in Rome. However you put it, the country is now tottering towards dramatic decline, with a kleptocratic and incompetent political Establishment, a financially bankrupt State, raging corruption, organized crime, a sclerotic and anti-feminist Church, a shambling economy โ oh, and of course a few decades of horrible government by a โBunga-Bungaโ Prime-Minister, Silvio Berlusconi โ all combining to knock one of Europeโs most vibrant societies on the head. This matters because, while Italy has counted little as a geo-political entity since Roman times, it boxes far above its weight in terms of โsoft power.โ
The countryโs hugely influential fashion industry defines female and male beauty for the world, the Roman Catholic Church does something similar for the morals of a billion Catholics as do organized crime โMafiasโ in the fields of vice and illegality, while Italian dining is the โfall-back cuisineโ for a night out in every corner of the globe.
A profound exploration of Italy and its society during the Berlusconi era. By former Economist editor Bill Emmett and with Benedict Cumberbatch reading Dante.
Springshot Productions โ Ref. 6610