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What they have in common the revolt that is happening in Egypt and not what is happening in Italy? Well, I do not mean the obvious, I do not mean word for the spirit of the noble, proud and courageous rebellion against the corruption of power in Italy seems to be dormant for years. I speak instead of that unhealthy social upheaval that is created whenever a population deeply unhappy with their government reacts. The actors involved are the usual three: there is people, by definition is not protected (especially if you had to get up to that point in order to impose their demands), there is the government invariably directed to 'self-preservation; and finally there is the 'executive , usually devoted to the protection of the government itself to the bitter end. As in Egypt, though on a much smaller scale, even Italy in recent years (indeed the whole world, but this is not the point) has had it that the people, discontent, was beaten by the executive power to protect the government and his wrong choices. This situation, in my view, has a theoretical flaw that causes deadly violence, injuries, occasional deaths, but (something much more interesting) a social clash of no use. Here's why.
Legislative power, despite being the most representative of people (being elected), is one that has the greatest chance of corruption. Power corrupts always serves a rare and unique moral caliber to maintain moral behavior in front of his advances, and found to overpay to make it immune to the political blackmail has proved ineffective in practice. Every politician, as a human being, it is blackmail, whatever the amount it receives as a salary, because - contrary to common scents - not the amount of money to lure him, but the amount of power, and more power get the more you are subject to ' irresistible effect of dopamine . From this point of view, in fact, the biological reaction of a subject to the temptations of political power is quite similar to that of a customer subject to the temptations of the product.
"The basis of certain modes of presentation of the products - explains Stefano Canali, historian and philosopher of science and researcher at SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) in the biological basis of compulsive behaviors - there exploitation of two brain mechanisms: the first is to reward and gratification, which is activated by dopamine, a neurotransmitter that activates in the presence of news. Contact with continuous innovations, including the presentation of products that theoretically may be useful for a better life, the brain active behavioral sequences aimed at the consumer. The second mechanism is the so-called "ego-depletion" (in Italian "ego-loss") which is the progressive loss of brain capacity of resistance to wear, controlled by the prefrontal cortex ".
In other words, the more the political temptation is subject to (continue) the power, the more it is physiologically difficult to resist the will, therefore, yields, and the political power to push beyond its public functions by reducing it to serve its own interests . That usually always end up being disadvantageous o addirittura dannosi per il resto della popolazione: il contesto in cui si dipana la società e il mercato moderno è competitivo, non collaborativo, quindi questa risulta essere una conseguenza matematicamente ovvia. Nel breve termine, diminuire il contatto massimo (in termini temporali) del politico con la politica, sembra essere l’unica soluzione per alleviare questo problema: se si tolgono i personalismi, se si evita insomma che il politico abbia modo di radicarsi e costruirsi un’importanza reverenziale, si diminuiscono i giochi di potere, e la politica può rimanere adesa al suo significato greco di arte di governare le società. Nel lungo termine, invece, basta una generale diffusione della cultura per garantire che politici sempre più capaci acquistino potere e traghettino la società a stati di equilibrio via via migliori: un’evidenza storica di certo rassicurante ma che tuttavia non allevia il nostro disappunto di fronte alle situazioni contingenti della politica che viviamo tutti i giorni.
In una repubblica democratica, come ben sappiamo, i poteri sono tre: legislativo , esecutivo e giudiziario . La separazione degli stessi, nonostante qualche saccente idiota come l'attuale primo ministro abbia l’ignoranza e la faccia tosta di dimenticarselo per i propri interessi personali, è un meccanismo fondamentale dell’equilibrio politico repubblicano. Ora, dato per scontato che il potere legislativo sia soggetto ad errore, passiamo al successivo, ossia l’esecutivo. La falla teorica dell’esecutivo invece è del tutto diversa. Essendo un organismo votato al rigore, da impiegare in casi di emergenza, o comunque in casi in cui la scarsa efficienza può risultare letale, storicamente è cresciuto con una rigida e insindacabile struttura gerarchica di tipo monarchico/oligarchico. Questa struttura, nell’esercito così come in molti altri contesti come la Chiesa o l’azienda, funziona meravigliosamente quando la dirigenza è capace. Quando invece non lo è (e credo di poter dire che nella storia questo succede con una probabilità abbastanza elevata), l’organizzazione in question generates disasters, so the higher the enormous power that this hierarchy holds. The solution to this problem is much less easy, because all human dilemma lies in the meaning of efficiency.
Nature, by definition, divorced the strict hierarchical organization of forces, it works very well without supervisors, using only a few rules of basic physics and biology, driven to large numbers, leading to the conduct of intelligence and optimality. The large numbers involved, brought in a human context, however, would involve the use of a variety of resources often unavailable and even human losses to bear. Nature, in short, has neither the sense of economy or sense of ethics, because an economy that has neither subject nor ethical to obey. There are practical applications of these principles and functioning well known, such as social networks and P2P systems, as well as in machine learning and evolutionary algorithms have swarm intelligence. But it can be applied to more complex situations? So far the answer is one: Generally not. The only thing that can relieve the bug so the hierarchy is the ability to criticism, namely that share control of from the bottom up that subject should be exercised, in my opinion, even impose, the spheres of management. This mechanism, persisted for generations, would statistically control the balls executives accustomed to control from below, able to appreciate the critical work of those who take, aimed not at the battle end in itself but also about improving the service offered (in a situation in other words, we perceive the benefits of working within the company). In the army, an approach which seems to be no question, however, would no doubt be redeeming as, faced with a revolt justified, the members of the army (who are men and women with families, all included in the same social context and then also informed of the reasons of the revolt) could be avoided triggering a furious battle between the poor and unnecessary, actively supporting the insurgency or at least favoring (thus making it unnecessary acts of violence) and, in a collaborative mechanism, help overthrow the corrupt government.
The danger of the coup, however, is around the corner. That is why, in this analysis, should not miss the third power, or legal standpoint. The grading of the judiciary is usually such as to add a discrete power to a high culture and independence. In other words, prosecutors and judges are neither policemen nor politicians, nor lawyers, and some of their original academic preparation, strictly not voted on the application of laws created by them, allows the birth and evolution of a sense of ethics and justice in the trial. This quality, totally lacking in political power games and lost in the soldier accustomed to the command hierarchy, appears to be essential because they are people with a real critical sense, a sub-optimal combination of firmness, power and humanity, in general, is able to rise above the political disputes and economic and guns, ensuring that citizens have a stronghold in an enviable situation of crisis. In fact, throughout history has proved to be also providing greater power, one that has not endangered the sovereignty of the people, and the most profitable in an ideal ratio errors / benefits. It is no coincidence that corruption, demon evergreen and ever-present, it considers the most dangerous power of all: the speck Berlusconi is one of many who are working day and night to do so (no, no ... maybe at night) .
Noting that violent revolutions in the streets are not a sign that something is changing for the better, but until that moment that something did not go your way, you begin to realize that we have a duty evolutionary (even before that moral) to cultivate critical intelligence and a devotion to good sense, in all spheres of public life and private. The structural problems of human society, from the most noble as corruption at the slyly understated as the cultural mediocrity, can not always be resolved only with the imposition of frivolous institutional superstructure. They are, so how are the laws and prohibitions, to channel the social habit to conduct community service. But if it's behind a conscious and vigorous critique of the significance of defects and the consequences of these superstructures, we will only keep animals who dress and buy products at the supermarket rather than going around naked to kill each other , perpetually on the edge of that ravine that separates the artificial armonia della giustizia dalla naturale brutalità dell’anarchia.
1 March 2011 
