Process. There’s so much process and bureaucracy in Italy that you can’t singlehandedly do anything. You need politicians - or rather, well connected busybodies

Process. There’s so much process and bureaucracy in Italy that you can’t singlehandedly do anything. You need politicians - or rather, well connected busybodies - to call in their clientele, a couple private phone calls and “trovare la Quadra” which is an euphemism for finding a solution that appeases all interests. I don’t know, maybe it’s a reaction to authoritarian fascism, or just something intrinsic to us (read several accounts on how it was all just the same during Fascism) but it’s just too difficult to manover such a large ship with small engines and little fuel. It’s not just Rome, it’s everything around her that makes it so.