The Beautiful Shape
Pasolini and the globalization of capital markets
“Capitalism is today the front line of a great internal revolution: it is revolutionarily evolving into Neocapitalism. Faced with this revolutionary, progressive and unifying Neocapitalism, there is an unheard of feeling, an unprecedented feeling of unity in the world. Why all of this? Because neocapitalism coincides with the complete world’s industrialization, and with the technological application of the science. It is a product of human history: of all men, not just of this or that people. In fact, nationalisms tend, in the near future, to be leveled by this naturally international neocapitalism. So the unity of the world (now barely sensible) will be a real unity of culture, social forms, goods and consumption. I naturally hope that, in this competition, neocapitalism does not win: but the poor win. Because I am an ancient man, who has read the classics, who picked grapes in the vineyard, who contemplated the rising and setting of the sun on the fields, among the old, faithful neighbors, among the blessed bleating of sheep; a men who then lived in small towns by the wonderful shape impressed by the age of craftsmanship, in which even a cottage or a wall are art masterpieces, and a small stream or a hill is enough to divide two styles and create two worlds. (I am not interested in a world unified by neocapitalism, that is an internationalism created by violence, by the need for production and consumption)”.
Pier Paolo Pasolini, La voce di Pasolini. I testi, Matteo Cerami e Mario Sesti. Feltrinelli Real Cinema ed., 2006.
SOURCE: Waves — Onde, translation ©VitaNova on Medium, Waves — Onde
