It is curious, to say the least, that laws are widely respected, when they are made by the same figures that, every four years, we see smiling on billboards, in electoral advertisements, and that, sporadically, we see in the police news handcuffed and arrested for leading scandals. In other words: the laws, conceived in the midst of the same mud responsible for sending some unfortunate ones to jail, are and must be respected as if they were a moral imperative. Undoubtedly, there is something comical in all this, and the obscenity with which the flock is enslaved and remains passive is laughable, when this pornography called law should more sensibly inspire a perennial state of revolt and insubordination.
Tag: behavior
Having a “Cause” and Wanting to Impose It
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.
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.