Thre Green

It is quite funny how unpleasant feelings green can arouse. The lucky thing is that, more often than not, it does not predominate over other colors in the field of vision. But put a poor fellow in an environment where he is surrounded by it and attacked by it, and he will soon despair. We tolerate exposure to green like we tolerate an insect: we want it to disappear so that we do not have to act.

Many Defects Are Tolerated…

Many defects are tolerated in public men, and many of them even seem derisory when moral clarity is found in them. Among his peers, this is so rare that, when it manifests itself, it seems to overshadow them all and overshadow his other qualities. In an arena dominated by falsehood and insidiousness, it is almost a miracle when we see someone who has not been contaminated.

Despite the Apparent Increase in Complexity

Modernity, despite the apparent increase in complexity that it has given to all sorts of ideologies, has simplified them to such an extent that today we can easily summarize the ideological debate into good and bad intentions. To say that it cannot be reduced to such a Manichaeism is to deny the ostensible axiological war that supports it and manifests itself in every word uttered and every line written. Everything else is secondary or irrelevant.