Inside the Capitol is a continuous applauding. Trump is about to announce the beginning of a new golden age. But you have to know how to heat the spirits to compensate for Washington’s frost. The left hand of the tycoon is firm on stage, the face is that of an incentive actor: “We will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf of America shortly”. The audience stands up and approves. Behind the new president, the plastic representation of why the Democrats have lost millions of votes. Immobility and contempt for those who think differently. The face of the biden of Biden and the unstoppable laughter of Hillary Clinton. But the beauty is about to start. And here is the burst of executive decrees to make America “Great Again”. “Everything with a pen, all in a few days,” writes a worried Walter Veltroni on the Corriere della Sera. “That pen is the dangerous testimony of a real problem: the aphasia of democracies, the clutch between the slowness of the procedures and the speed of digital society”. Still, a postcard marker was enough to convince the tech giants to follow Trump. Yesterday in the evening Google announced that he will rename the Gulf of Mexico in “Gulf of America” on his maps.
The new nomenclature will only affect citizens of the United States. The computer company is justified by describing the practice as a custom and on social X leaves no room for doubt: “When official names vary among countries, Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world will have both denominations available. ” And in order not to miss anything, even the highest peak in the north of America will be transformed: from Mount Denali to Mount McKinley, in honor of the 25th US president. The interior department said she was working to be so that the change is valid as soon as possible. Welcome to the Trump era. The editorials of the main newspapers hurry to find the right definition for the new strategy. THE’Economist He is convinced: it is the “Madman Diplomacy“. Pazzo tycoon sees international relationships as a struggle between powerful in which from education moves to the threat of vendetto and duties. So a gulf that for 400 years has been called in a certain way, is now modified with a ink blow. But that the real revolution starts from language is ancient history.
And in recent years the progressives of all latitude had understood it well. Words allowed and prohibited words, redefined sexes at will. Public debate locked up in the Politically correct fence. And the super rich of Silicon Valley were guarding the grazing guard, ready to censor any topic in contrast with the dominant ideology. Orwellian world? In reality someone had anticipated the British writer. Already long before the German jurist Carl Schmitt was sentenced: “the one who holds the power also defines words and concepts”. Today is still the case.
