spiritual style

Of Adriano Segatori

Source: Italicum
Sovereignty – this one with a capital S – is first and foremost a mental conception, a psychological attitude, a true spiritual style.
A characteristic of man is to talk about what no longer exists, and health is the most striking example of this. When people meet, they don't report good blood pressure data or the regularity of their bowel movements, but they list flaws, various annoyances and disorders. The exact same mechanism is in place for other issues that concern personal and collective life.
There has been rant about family and education ever since the family was decimated by individualistic selfishness and the exercise of the most disparate vicious rights, and education has been excommunicated by the exaltation of spontaneity and uncontrolled independence. Dozens of authorizations are required and school photos are prohibited in the name of privacy since everyone posts the most obscene revelations of their physical and mental life on social networks. We talk too much about freedom and democracy when houses are transformed into forts and the life of citizens is forced between cameras, grates and armored doors.
In short, the real void is always filled by an imaginary surrogate: it is the law of nature. Read More