To a certain extent, it is beneficial for the moralist to be able to identify falsehood from afar, so that an inflection or a glance is enough to reveal a character. Pragmatically, this ability will be of use to him throughout his life. There is, however, an inevitable side-effect: realizing its near omnipresence, he must either tolerate it or turn away. If he has learned to detest it, if he has taken an invincible repulsion to it, he will fall into that rare practice which is now called a personality disorder, and even if, for whatever reason, he ends up giving in to the torture which his contact with the world will become, it is only in that that he will find his peace.
Tag: behavior
Would Go to Jail
It is impressive to note how easily writers of the last two centuries would go to jail if they published today what they published a few decades ago. They would be fiercely persecuted, fiercely censored, and, unless saved by a very rare confluence of factors, would be prevented from writing and publishing. Dead, however, with a few exceptions, they remain tolerated, if not ignored. This highlights both the hysterical and authoritarian character of this century, and it has become more than ever preferable to remain anonymous.
Information Warfare
What makes information warfare even more abominable than that waged on battlefields is the absence of any war code. Consequently, anything is allowed. What is astonishing is the number of those who have not yet realized that there is, in fact, a war going on in this field. This is mostly because none of those who fight fiercely has published, as protocol demands, a declaration of war. So that those who innocently stand in their way are attacked by a total violence that has no scruple to destroy and admits no amnesty. To crush the adversary, and to do so by any means available, preferably sneakily, so that the aggression will not be identified or, at the very least, it will be impossible to identify the aggressor. It is a war that, in short, has added infamy to pure violence.
Ecclesiastes Is Eternal
Ecclesiastes is eternal because it has verified that there are no new vices, nor new hopes, that what has been done will be done again, and there will never be anything that has not already been done: in short, circumstances are different, but man is always the same, and always falls into the weaknesses of the past. The impression of change with time is illusory, since it is limited to external aspects of a permanent reality. Man is always man, and we can only expect him to be what he is.