I am not much into reviewing these days, but for Umberto Eco’s “Prague Cemetery”, I’ll make an exception because it is an important and intelligent book.
The book starts as an ugly cartoon, with the main character
Simone Simoni, (the most despicable character ever) ranting and spitting
against Jews, Germans, Rosicrucians, Catholics and so on. Simoni lives at the
end of the 19th century and is a master – forger, making fake documents on
demand for any organization, secret or official, who wants to implicate, insult
or attack any other organization, minority, nationality and so on. For heinous as
he is, Simone has a lot of customers.
Most readers remain unconcerned and relaxed until they realize
that while Simone is a fictional character, all others, victims and bad guys
alike are real historic people. These things really happened. It gets really uncomfortable
when we recognize the evil from our history books…the Dreyfuss affair for
instance based on the Anti-Semitic –
inspired false documents and later the protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fake
document, quoted by a certain Adolph Hitler in his “Mein Kampf “ to scapegoat
the Jewish community with the results we
know…
Chilling…
There is much more in the book and it is strongly recommended,
for after some time, Eco’s message materializes in our daily life.
- Someone reminds me that Europe is an Islamic
state. He shows a PowerPoint with statistics as a proof that there is a vast Muslim
conspiracy out there to take over Europe
-
Assange is a conspirator who wants to bring down
democracies…
-
In the journal I read, I am reminded that the US have secret documents
that proof – without any doubt – that chemical weapons are used by the Syrian government.
We are still waiting for the proofs that Iraq had WMD.
The 21th century is not that much different from the 19th
after all
