It does not seem possible for this process of individuation to take place without it being preceded by a crisis, a discomfort in relation to the environment which, for many, stimulates a feeling of identification. In order to perceive oneself, the individual has to differentiate, and this differentiation seems to be evidenced most often in conflict, which leads to an inner anguish yearning for affirmation. If this process, as is generally agreed, drives the expansion of consciousness, stimulating it seems more sensible than repressing it, and repressing it only seems to curb a fundamental stage in the development of the being.
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The Communist Experiment
Despite all the extensive documentation about the horror of the communist experiment on earth, a horror so absolute that it is almost impossible to carry out an extensive investigation into the subject, since to investigate it is to come across endless accounts of deprivation, misery, torture, moral corruption and annihilation as varied as the human imagination, it is unbelievable to note that the word communism not only fails to arouse the appropriate terror, but is innocuous to many and seductive to others. This fact is such a shattering exclamation that it must be evidence of a profound lesson. On a collective level, communism amounted to carnage that raised misery to an unprecedented level; on an individual level, it amounted to degradation. In this deplorable experiment, what we saw was the flowering of the most treacherous and savage things, the unbridled expansion of cruelty and oppression; the average individual was subjected to a life of misery and involuntary deprivation, booty, psychological torture at inconceivable levels, so that their very survival became conditional on submission. Incessant shootings, without reason or pity, but which, given the general scenario, seemed more like a release for those shot… And all this, although massively recorded, although alongside an endless obituary, seems pointless. There is only one lesson to be learned: man is absolutely incapable of learning.
The Average Person Would Only Become Aware…
The average person would only become aware of the importance of the values and conditions that have been bequeathed to him if he could feel, in the flesh, all that his ancestors have suffered. That is impossible. Few words, for example, are as dry as “freedom” when uttered in free countries. Its semantics hide the amount of blood that was shed to win it, and for free citizens to understand it, they would have to experience its absence. The same is true in many other cases, and from this we realize that when history and education are useless, it is ridiculous to talk about this so-called “progress”.
A Generation Never Learns From the Past
“History repeats itself” is a true statement because it is based on the absolute human incapacity, attested by each generation, to pass on the learning of its experiences. That is why civilization is always on the verge of the same collapses and revolutions as before, hostage to the same mistakes, exploited by new versions of the same weapons, subject to the same schemes of domination, the same types driven by the same ambitions. A generation never learns from the past, and what it learns from the present will have to be learned from the present again and again by the next generations.