Everything has been wiped out in the name of a balance sheet, in the name of a currency. Even the Church has fallen silent. After having always proclaimed the supremacy of the spirit over matter, they haven’t had the strength to rebel against the supremacy of the god called euro. In Sanremo, there was the “sign” of the death of the Italian spirit, a sign that only Italian thought could have invented: the intentional, knowing cacophony of the Mononote song.