Hello. I was lurking here for some time and now I have some things to say. I started following shatow in the time of our second lockdown (autumn/winter 2020/1; I should be learning Spanish during that time, ffs
). My "love" started to cool after that trip to Lago Something with Oliver and his lady. I'm "alergic" to some things, one of them is gushing over fascist poets. After that I started to notice all kind of weird things. I find her relationship with Dutchman very unsettling. I watched only couple of episodes of that gift thing and I think it's disturbing. And so are Christmas preparations and Easter parties.
What I want to say is about lake. I don't remember how long lake is no more (10 years?) and in this time a new microecosystem developed there. She should leave that "field" like it is. Luckily, if she runs out of money nothing will happen there in near future.
Sorry for typos etc. English is not my first language
Mmm... What you called Lago Somehing is the Lago di Garda, Lake of Garda, the largest and more beautiful Italian Lake, stunning for so many features, including its Mediterranean climate and the growth of many typical Mediterranean vegetation.
Yet I was amazed by what you said about what made your love for SJ cool down; not her grifting, not her lies, not her being a narc, not her ridiculously expensive lifestyle thanks to other people's money etc., all of which was already clear at the time, but by the fact that you are allergic to "gushing over fascist poets". So, what put you off was her visit to a national museum like hundreds of thousand of tourists do every year.
I suppose you are referring to Gabriele D'Annunzio's home museum, possibly the greatest, more international and more celebrated Italian poet of his time. The only Italian poet and writer who had connections with the international avantgards. Unfortunately many Italians who have barely read his immense production of poems, novels, plays, short stories, still believe that he was a fascist, when he was just the opposite, and he hated and despised Mussolini, (not to mention his hatred for Hitler) therefore was exiled by him in the golden prison of the Vittoriale on the Garda Lake. He was too famous and celebrated, so the only thing Mussolini could do was to isolate him.
Later his proto-fascist image was fuelled by the post-war domineering Italian left wing intellectuals, who, by the way, shamelessly all copied and drew from his works.
Yes, it's true, he was inspired by Nietzche's Superman for his heroic gestures, when during WW I he flew over Vienna throwing thousands of fliers encouraging Italians to set free from Austria's ruling, or when he freed for some time the town of Fiume from the Austrians. But those were actions he did all by himself, not for the Italian army and by the way when he was a middleaged man, but was never involved with actual fascism.
He also tried in every way to dissuade Mussolini from his alliance with Hitler and to convince him to leave the Axis alliance, as he forsaw the tragic epilogue, even if he died before seeing it.
Thanksfully in the last few decades things have changed and this crap of fascist poet label has now been removed.
Yet, it really is amazing how the majority of his works, that have nothing to do with all this, are still unknown to many, that same people who say that they haven't read them and yet they also say they don't like them.
Sorry if my comment sounded a bit harsh, but I too am allergic to people who speak without a deep knowledge of what they're saying.
But of course, if you have an extensive knowledge of D'Annunzio's works and can explain why you think they are the works of a fascist, I'm ready to listen and discuss it.
My comment may sound OT, but is not, as it shows how easy it is to judge something just because many think and say so and therefore must be true. I called conformism.
P.S. I hate fascism in any form it may take place, be it a right or left movement, be it under the appearance of a democracy or a dictatorship and unfortunately today that is where the world is heading.