Secret services and the Italian publishing world

Ian Fleming

Manipulation.

Media manipulation currently shapes everything you read.
Great powers (finance, intelligence, politics, States ...) influence economy and social structure of states beyond any doubt. Italy is probably the best example. From the Unification until today Italy is a constant experiment of conflict and manipulation of foreign states (England, USA, Germany, France ...) and every time this land tried his own way the politician who tried it was taken down (Mattei, Moro, Craxi).
Given the disappointing literary panorama, marked by a kind of literature devoid of originality (especially of contents), which I define literature-meme, i.e. able only to repeat without innovating, suitable to produce frames without contents *. Therefore if I consider the premises I started from from I naturally ask myself how those who are capable to influence the media are also interested in controlling the editorial world (an authentic inaccessible bunker, which admits and promotes only the names certified by a type of literary vision appreciated by those who generally manipulate the world of information and entertainment.


The neorealist vision of Italian literature.

I again ask myself: why every time a film or an Italian book is successful abroad (with a few exceptions), does it only convey to the whole world that kind of stereotypical image of Italy? A poor country, more or less co-belligerent or even a defeated nation, or in the hands of mafia, but always firmly anchored to the so-called "allies": USA or England.

Debate.

For the time being, however, I do not have any elements to fully support this thesis but obviously I like to confirm that at the base of editorial choices must be a trend that has been imposed, and which continues to prevail. Otherwise I would not explain the editorial myopia that extends itself no more than the limits of the above mentioned bunker that has set itself the limits and terms of its very survival.
Of course, there is also independent publishers, but their economic power, distribution and marketing skills are so minimal that publishing with independent publishing leads an author to remain not only a complete stranger but also they are at risk of losing money .
I would therefore like to open a debate, so that we can identify concrete and evident cases of manipulation or at least of dominant ideological paradigm .
Some cases (Alvaro, Bassani, Lussu ...to stay within the limits of a few names) are mentioned as collaborators of the UK secret services by Giovanni Fasanella and Mario Cereghino in their book "Colonia Italia". In this book is well exemplified how UK secret services strongly interfered with manipulation of Italian culture and public opinion.

* Obviously the fact that the frame becomes dominant with respect to contents is certainly not due (or not only due) to a direct intervention of external/foreign influences but, certainly, to the dominant culture imposed by search engines and social media that have constituted a culture where the collective dominates the individual, providing contents (feeds) already pre-established by/in the network via algorithm to the detriment of individual creativity.
Individual content (creativity and innovation) tends to decrease to zero.