This was an attempt to encourage Italians to eat more rice and decrease reliance on food imports by 
and wheat was imported while rice was more easily grown in Italy, and no they did not think of making rice noodles to replace pasta
This was an attempt to encourage Italians to eat more rice and decrease reliance on food imports by and wheat was imported while rice was more easily grown in Italy, and no they did not think of making rice noodles to replace pasta
I sort of agree, but at the same time the USSR and many communist projects in the early 20th century had a very similar perspective, to break the past so thoroughly that the future could be built in the name of progress. Even Gramsci, the most leftist Italian* to ever
had a very similar view. So, iconoclasm and disregard for the sacred cows of society doesn't always lead to "purge all undesirables".
It's all Hegel's fault for making such a good argument for the concept of historical progress as something that could and had to be driven forward.
* (he was actually Sardinian, and back then that mattered a lot)
Agreed. I think that's what I meant by the "methodology" of futurism. The idea of breaking the past isn't the issue. It's the means and systems used to do so that matters, and therefore the ideology of the futurists in question.
DO NOT give
the big past-breaking hammer.