Stanley Tucci: "Searching for Italy" is really just an Anti-Capitalism message to America

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11852724/

This is a really great show, but really all he is doing is cataloguing the benefits of never having Capitalism. You go anywhere in the world that does not have Capitalism and you get this. Italy clearly is full of people not interested in profit or progress but rather preserving those traditional age-old techniques and quality of their heritage that they have honed to perfection and they love. This is the opposite of Capitalism, which is all about disrupting and injecting new untested imperfect short-term things just for profit. So when Tucci writes home, just remind Americans this is what you can have if you get rid of Capitalism.

Interesting also that Italy side stepped Capitalism for Fascism. Fascism is the economic system of government monopolies. And doesn't that make sense: in a country with strong traditions where people already know how to do things and who is best don't you naturally just promote and protect monopolies (families) with the centuries of experience in producing what you love? Makes perfect sense.

And this raises the "racist" issue of cultural preservation. If you ever go to a country because you like it, what sense is there in taking your own traditions with you? If Italians want to preserve their food heritage its not just good enough to have government legislation to tackle food imposters you need the same with cultural imposters too. And you have Fascism immediately. Its not so simple though: cos immigrants will say well we have a right to our own culture. But saying that just empowers the Italian government to say the same. No simple solution! Easiest is just not go to Italy if you are not interested in being Italian. Capitalism of course just sees people as work-horses so they will import people without any regard for community or heritage: hence the "food issue" that Tucci is obliquely raising about the US. Its a melting pot of people bring half-remembered foods, without any infrastructure to make those foods, like 36 month Parmigiano-Reggiano, and no sufficient demand to warrant starting production - if they can remember, and when profit is the only thing on the table just make burgers. This is why the US is such a social car crash bottom of the table in almost all metrics.

When Tucci says "it was bombed" he means "The Americans bombed it." Why doesn't he say that? If the NAZIS or Russians had bombed it he would say that. The Yanks completely flattened Italy in a program of criminal vandalism (as they have large parts of the world) and then subjected the Italians to 20 years of total brainwashing through schools, radio, printed text and developing TV. You literally could not escape the voice of America in Italy after the war (so Italians tell me). So they forget the atrocities the US conducted on their soil.

But as, this show is testament to, it appears the Americans did not destroy Italy, and Italians still rejected Capitalism and kept their traditions. And I wonder if Americans watching this show will start to wonder why they have Capitalism and endless wars--to promote it to people who do not want it--too.