Babylon

Of Roberto Pecchioli

Source: Heretically
The humanity of the terminal West has found its destiny, become the zoo of Babylon. A fake environment, a theme park, a lush cage where animals are prisoners in a fake forest, deprived of their natural dignity to be exposed to the amazed gaze of a paying crowd moving along established routes, between kiosks, refreshment points and gadgets. The difference with the wild animal zoo is that we become spectators of ourselves. The culture that discovered the concept of person dies for having enthusiastically accepted the zootechnical fate. From primacy over nature, from the certainty of having had the gift of reason and self-awareness to the sad future of a zoological species. Intelligent farmed beasts without the innocence of the animal, This is what we are reduced to.
Alexis de Tocqueville imagined that the idea of ​​equality would be taken to its extreme consequences, combined with the mirage of unlimited freedom, it would have eradicated every other aspiration from the human heart. Almost two centuries after the intuitions of the Norman count, the journey is complete. Freedom has been exchanged for liberation, then with desire, finally with a whim, assumed the postulate of equality as an indisputable value, Western man has set out on the most dangerous path, become a highway with no exits, that of an all-out fight against nature, its laws, its limits. He built a society of disintegration, an oxymoron of which we are witnesses, mostly unaware of the fate of mutants. Read More