Totalitarianisms are not political ideologies, but collusions of psychopaths who aim at a power only achieved through the massive destruction of conscience. That is why they target, above all and with the utmost violence, human dignity, that through which it manifests itself and that which it feeds on. So they only pass in a corrupted society whose individuals have completely abdicated their own worth. Dignity will never hesitate between totalitarianism and jail, between that and the firing squad. However, it should be noted that, except in rare cases, it is not allowed to choose between these options. Dignity most often vanishes as totalitarianism advances, and this, cunning that it is, does so gradually, through small spoils, small abuses, in such a way as not to make it appear that it is slowly imposing itself. One step at a time and, with each success, a new step forward. So, in truth, this is a war waged by the individual in small battles, small choices, whose only result that really matters to him—the one over which he has control—is to corrupt himself or not.
Tag: philosophy
The Morning Is the Most Important Time of the Day
The morning is the most important time of the day. Productive or unproductive, happy or unhappy, its effects are contagious and spread throughout the following hours, evidence that a day is won in the morning. Therefore, it is prudent to accomplish the most important task of the day during this period, overcoming it as soon as possible so that the afternoon is infected with this satisfaction. To do otherwise is to act against oneself: by postponing the most important task, anxiety is generated; to accomplish it at the end of the day is to allow the fatigue of the day, if it does not encourage further postponement, to impair its accomplishment. Two hundred other reasons recommend the early hours of the day as the time when activities requiring the greatest concentration should be carried out, and so perhaps the greatest secret of a stimulating and satisfying routine is to make good use of the morning.
The Average Person Would Only Become Aware…
The average person would only become aware of the importance of the values and conditions that have been bequeathed to him if he could feel, in the flesh, all that his ancestors have suffered. That is impossible. Few words, for example, are as dry as “freedom” when uttered in free countries. Its semantics hide the amount of blood that was shed to win it, and for free citizens to understand it, they would have to experience its absence. The same is true in many other cases, and from this we realize that when history and education are useless, it is ridiculous to talk about this so-called “progress”.
Comfort Stimulates Inertia
Comfort stimulates inertia, and discomfort gives rise to the need for expression. This is true both individually and collectively. The great themes of every age are precisely what bothered them most. And as soon as a solution appears, either by custom or by change, we notice it by the disappearance of the theme in literature. We approach the individual and find the same thing: it is precisely from discomfort that all authentic literature is born. And if we see it this way, we cannot help but look at the difficulties from an entirely new perspective.