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Come scriveva Umberto Eco, l’Europa non è che la «periferia» dell’Impero Americano. Con i suoi poderosi strumenti retorici (i media, le nuove tecnologie), l’Impero promuove da decenni la propria ideologia come un sistema di pseudo-valori – la crescita illimitata, la bulimia del consumo tecnologico, la religione dei diritti «universali», i «crimini contro l’Umanità» a senso unico, la religione del «gender» –, che il crollo del sistema sovietico ha trasformato in una egemonica e sedicente «democratica» visione del mondo. Questo piccolo libro intende richiamare l’attenzione su una «zona di resistenza» che può sembrare tutta interna ai confini dell’Impero (e non lo è): la Germania e la Mitteleuropa di cultura tedesca. Questa vastaarea – la Kerneuoropa dei geopolitici – è refrattaria sotto svariati punti di vista ai dogmi dell’«ideologia atlantica». Se la Germania riuscirà ad addomesticare i fantasmi del proprio passato e a guarire dal suo latente titanismo (l’utopia autodistruttiva della «scalata al Cielo»), potrà svolgere un ruolo essenziale di mediazione e di arbitraggio trail vecchio impero marittimo in declino e il nuovo impero terrestre che si profila ad Oriente.
As Umberto Eco wrote many years ago, Europe is nothing but the “periphery” of the American Empire. With its powerful rhetorical tools (the media and new technologies) the Empire supports its own ideology with its pseudo-values—the boundless growth, the bulimia of technological consumerism, the religion of “universal” rights, one-way “crimes against Humanity”, the “religion of gender”—, and the collapse of the Soviet System has made this ideology a hegemonic, compulsory and so-called “democratic” view of the world. The aim of this small book is to draw attention to an “opposition zone” apparently included in the boundaries of the Empire: Germany, and Middle Europe with its Germanic cultural imprinting. This vast area—the Kerneuropa of geopolitics—is resistant from many points of view to the dogmas of the “Atlantic ideology”. If Germany is able to domesticate the phantoms of its past, and to heal from its fatal titanism (the ambition to climb to Heaven), then it will perform an essential role of arbitration between the Old Maritime Empire and the New Terrestrian Empire of the Far East.
As Umberto Eco wrote many years ago, Europe is nothing but the “periphery” of the American Empire. With its powerful rhetorical tools (the media and new technologies) the Empire supports its own ideology with its pseudo-values—the boundless growth, the bulimia of technological consumerism, the religion of “universal” rights, one-way “crimes against Humanity”, the “religion of gender”—, and the collapse of the Soviet System has made this ideology a hegemonic, compulsory and so-called “democratic” view of the world. The aim of this small book is to draw attention to an “opposition zone” apparently included in the boundaries of the Empire: Germany, and Middle Europe with its Germanic cultural imprinting. This vast area—the Kerneuropa of geopolitics—is resistant from many points of view to the dogmas of the “Atlantic ideology”. If Germany is able to domesticate the phantoms of its past, and to heal from its fatal titanism (the ambition to climb to Heaven), then it will perform an essential role of arbitration between the Old Maritime Empire and the New Terrestrian Empire of the Far East.