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The Human Being Does Not Change His Essence

“Becoming a better person” demands a merciless and continuous inner annihilation, a humility and a self-denial that borders on repugnance, a superhuman effort to silence the insistent and natural voice of vanity, which manifests itself as soon as the being recognizes his capacity to think. Since this is an almost unfeasible task, since it demands the confrontation of hard battles that never end, it is wise to say that, after adulthood, the human being does not change his essence, even if he wants to, even if he tries, even if he believes.

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What Is Called “Society” Requires the Representation of a Role

What is called “society” requires the representation of a role from everyone. And freedom begins after this refusal. Brilliantly exposed by Jung is the irreconcilable clash between the collective and the individual psyche, which leads the human being to one between two alternatives: either to repress his individuality and become a socially accepted sheep or to break with society and suffer the consequences of this decision. There is no escape, the existence of “society” induces an active posture, if not of acceptance, of refusal. So we can see which decision is the easiest and infinitely more profitable. On the other hand, it remains evident which human beings are intellectually worthy of respect—and which are not.

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The Lyrical Love Poetry Is Doomed to Disappear

The lyrical love poetry, if not dead, is doomed to disappear. This is undoubtedly the conclusion that screams after an accurate observation of the last decades. What happened was not a change in the character of relationships, but a definitive burial of how much served as inspiration for the verses that no longer touch. I could cite current thinking, the socially accepted psyche preacher of detachment. But this is too fragile, only applicable as a mask of the individual psyche and only relevant as a manifestation of hypocrisy. What happens, however, is that people have become dishes on a menu always online and accessible to a touch. Distance, fear of loss, and especially lack of means and options have always acted as fortifiers of a relationship, despite appearances. The lament, in a verse, is nothing but the expression of affection for someone who looks special and irreplaceable. Today, all this is over. And if the present century seems to have evolved, we will see how it will react when exposed to the terrible and immense emptiness opened up by the mass loss of affective bonds—once the fulcrums of meaning,—by the endorsement of false solutions and the gradual dehumanization of human beings. I imagine frightened children clogging up the psychological clinics…

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Do the Diplomas Confer Indispensable Quality for Literature?

The day is likely to come when a diploma will be needed to formally publish a poem. And so the question will be even more exposed: do diplomas confer indispensable quality for literature? or, rather: do diplomas confer indispensable quality for anything? Of course, the obvious answer will come to light: no, houses have always been built by those who never had a diploma. And I imagine clandestine sonnets infinitely superior to those bearing the stamp of academic quality, showing that the academy has become much more of a bureaucratic institution, a business that generates employment and revenue, an obligatory prerequisite for performing any function than an entity that teaches what is relevant to exercising a professional activity. In the use of time, independent study is radically more profitable in the face of academic bureaucracy and the many hours employed in nothing when studying at a university—it is enough to evaluate, for example, the time spent moving to the institution and its weight in the equation, not to mention the quality of what is taught or the absolutely useless subjects. Laboratories, expensive physical structures, will probably continue to be monopolized by universities. For the activities of the intellect, however, the conclusion cannot be different: if one day they are rewarded for their merit, the world will be of the self-taught, and the gigantic and costly academic structure will be fatally doomed to collapse.

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