Truth?

Hi!

Do you think politics looks for truth or common wealth? Honestly I don't think so, and with the politicians we have in Italy, frankly it'd hard to believe the contrary.

But, my talking today isn't focused on a the classic italian-bar-chitchat which we love to do.

I love to search a valid opinion through the meanings of the word, their origin, that's why today I'm going to analyze the basic word on which the entire building of politic-fare is made.

Compromise.

Not the whole politics in the world follow this rule of course, but I feel like mocked while watching television or comparing blogs and official journals or gazettes, or any other institutional production.

The point I get, is that when there is a serious dispute among political parties, we can see all the farers hurring to negotiate and most of all : to find a compromise, in order to save the nation (which in italian is translated as "their asses").

Com-promise. Even if much time passed, the latin form hold its original form in italian, english and french as well.

Though you don't know anything about latin, you can easily remark that the prefix "com" is shared with many other words like "connect" or "convoy", from latin "cum" which means "with".

So com-promise stands as "to make promise to more than one/to make promises coexisting promises" concerning various matters.

Often it is assimilated into a negative form, to something which must be done to preserve something else, but that can leave us unhappy, disappointed, unsatisfied.

Doing a compromise is always a loss for both part, and it is curious to remark that the same exact word is often used to describe something that has stopped, or broke, or simpler something that is not anymore functioning, for example "my project has been compromised by...........(something)".

That's it! A compromise is something that denaturate the initial intention, which is not possible pursue anymore due to external contingencies with which you are forced to deal with, and cannot anyhow avoid.

Politics.