Luciano Duarte | Literature and philosophy

Determinism Is Mediocre and Cowardly

Determinism is above all mediocre and cowardly. Although it is, to some extent, severely ironized by fate, an understanding of reality that gives way to free will is infinitely superior to summarizing the human being in a puppet. If merit inexorably ends in defeat, and many, many times falters or is overturned in its own field of action, it does not mean that it does not give dignity to the being who excuses himself from justifications that only evidences his impotence. To understand the world as immune to human action and human action as an uncontrollable phenomenon is to summarize the human being in a dog—which can even be true, as long as not taken as universal.

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A Golden Rainbow

We are almost there! All that has been bequeathed to us is on the verge of a mighty upliftment! Tens of centuries, millions of years of evolution have erected and sustain our moment. Only a little bit! A little bit from each one and a golden rainbow will sprout from the asphalt hovering over the entire world territory!

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It Is With Him That I Go….

There is no irony potent enough to express all the joy of these lines, now surrounded by lively jingles. The truth is that the words, stimulated, are already dancing. Oh, language, how impressive you are when well carved! Future, work, better, real, real, like us, different, different… Hope is the noblest of all the noble gifts given to the noble human spirit. The face, when it smiles in return for the promise, shows the virtue of the soul able to trust the sister of blessing. And together, in harmony, they are both predestined to build the Blessed Municipal Paradise!

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I Want to Believe That Glory Is in Free Will

I want to believe that there is, in free will, the glory coming from the war of known end. Through it, and only through it, it is possible to beat—even temporarily, even if only one battle…—the sinister fortune. Thinking in this way, I cannot do but summarizing the qualitative character of all complex and ambiguous human nature in a single element: the volition.

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