There is a remarkable difference between having a “cause” and wanting to impose it on the rest of men. It is possible to say, at first, that this difference is character. But it can also be said that the more the feeling inspired by the “cause” is true, the more its “benefits” are clear in the mind of the one who has it, the more will be the natural impulse to want other men to have it too, or to “enjoy” it. Here, then, we come to the imposition. There is no way to interpret it, regardless of how it is practiced, or how it is founded, if not as a primary violation, a direct attack on the freedom of the individual. The imposition will never be noble, and after the tyranny has been perpetrated, those who have suffered it can no longer be called free men.
Tag: behavior
Running Over Laziness
It is simply delicious the sensation we experience when, faced with a complex task that needs to be redone due to a small mistake, having our mind against us, which points out endless reasons to get rid of the new effort, we run over our laziness, redo the task and, finally, we are rewarded with a much better result than the previous one. It is curious to note how virtuous and decisive initiative is in these cases. The problem arises, everything seems to advise us to avoid the new effort; and, if we do, a long remorse follows from the failure, coming from not having done it better. On the other hand, if we take the opposite route and the result rewards us, we are seized by a mixture of relief and satisfaction. Happy is he who never gives in to laziness…
The Modern Obsession With Sexuality
The modern obsession with sexuality, which considers it a matter of first importance and cannot bear half a dozen words that do not highlight its primordial character in the human being, only validates the old, very unpleasant and unpopular affirmations of numerous thinkers over the centuries who have noted the greater distance between the superior man and the common man than between the latter and a dog.. There is, to put it like Pessoa, a difference in quality, an inevitable repulsion, and to the former the concerns of the second will always seem contemptible and degrading.
Economics Seems Like a Problem So Logical…
When we read some economists, economics seems like a problem so logical and so simple that it really scares the stupidity of those who govern it in the real world. Today, there are more than enough historical examples of economic measures that have proven to be fruitful or disastrous, so that, in the vast majority of cases, or rather, as far as macroeconomic guidelines are concerned, there could be no doubt about how one who intends prosperity should act. But then, theoretical pragmatism seems absolutely inapplicable to reality, in which the most diverse interests, some mean, some naive, perverse or irresponsible, are placed in the foreground, to the detriment of that already weakened and distant objective that should guide all economic measures. The conclusion is only one: the human element makes any equation unfeasible.