The Human Being Lives in a Vegetative State

I believe it was Hegel who said that “one learns from history that man never learns from it.” Unquestionable truth. But only the symptom of a bigger problem. The human being lives in a vegetative state, although sometimes it seems the opposite. It is not only the lessons of history that he is incapable of grasping, but reality itself. Rationally, living seems an impossibility. If the human being reasoned and used the judgment he thinks to dispose to assimilate his existence, he would immediately put himself on the curb crying. But that is not what happens. It is necessary for a close friend, for a relative to die for him to awakens from the vegetative state and reason something like “it could have been me.” However, the impulse is fleeting: the consciousness awakens and, immediately afterward, puts itself once again into a heavy sleep. Then the being returns to his usual state, in evidence of the vicious character of his judgment. It is incredible! This seems to be an adaptive psychological mechanism, that is, if not plunged into deep unconsciousness, who would move a single straw? Would they build the Titanic, if they knew its end? And of life, the end is very clear… But we are already rambling. “One learns from history that man does not learn from it”: man, the being who ignores everything, the smiling blind being. And it seems the same mental programming that demands numbness to justify from individual stupidity to the collective foolishness of a world that, for more than half a century, has not faced a great war…

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The “Important” Constantly Changes Face

The years go by and the “important” constantly changes face. What is indispensable, in the past, becomes irrelevant. And life seems to operate a slow movement of reduction of reality as if attending to the essential. If the years grow larger, what once seemed abundant seems to be scarce. Possibilities, dreams, relationships… everything seems to slowly dissipate, showing perhaps what remains, or perhaps that reality is doomed to volatilization…

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It is the Comedians Who Best Caress Human Pain

More than any philanthropic entity, it is the comedians who best caress human pain. And the justification is simple: laughter is an effective, cheap, and inexhaustible remedy. Comedians, if good, teach us to laugh at the worst miseries, console us in the face of the terrible, deliver pleasure when it seems impossible. Comedians unveil the obvious: in life, absolutely everything is subject to a joke—and the best ones spring from exactly where it seems absurd to us to extract them. Moreover, they attack the viper that no philanthropic entity is capable of fighting: vanity. Therefore, it is sad to see them working almost always shot by stones, often destroyed by the mass of idiots incapable of seeing the dimension of their own ridicule. But this is nothing new: the great ones almost always end up the target of the imbeciles’ fury. For ahead, idols, benefactors of humanity! And your laughter will last when the hands that attack you have already turned, inert, to dust!

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Every Intention That Requires the Action of a Third Party Is Bad

Every intention that requires the action of a third party is bad. Every speech thirsting for approval is bad. Therefore, the intention is only virtuous if it entails an individual action and the word is only fruitful if it is self-sufficient. In a world where these truths are absolutely misunderstood, it is natural that social life is unpleasant, if not unbearable. Majority, consensus, acceptance, these and other words from hell only contribute to making the human being progressively mediocre. The dignity of man sprouts from the consciousness of individuality and respect is only possible in the being who learns to value what is different, instead of always subduing him to his own despicable opinions.

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