NOTHING SURPRISING

I

Today, like yesterday, we don't even know where we are heading.

There is always someone or something that makes us follow the path that suits them best.

It is often the most harmful way for us, but we must go forward at any cost: "he who hesitates is lost!", we repeat, how insanely!

If we were to stop and think and look around, we may begin to understand. Unfortunately, only a deep hole will stop us.

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II

In una società che vive di una menzogna media (almeno ai giorni nostri) viene chiamato nihilista chiunque cerchi di esperire il vero

[M. F.]

III

"Le gouvernement, s'il veut obtenir un résultat, pourrait utiliser à cet effet la psychologie des foules et non un respect des lois qui n'existe plus. A l'aide d'une campagne savamment orchestrée, les quelques cas sporadiques que nous observons couramment seraient promus au rang d'une menace d'épidémie. Les quotidiens, les hebdomadaires illustrés feraient paraître des articles dans le genre de ceux que nous avons lus récemment : la psychose, l'esprit grégaire feraient le reste."

[J. L.]

IV

And art is the most general condition of The Past in the present. To become "past” is, in one version, to become "art.” ( The arts that most literally illustrate this mutation are architecture and photography . )

[S.S.] [123]

V

The degree of personal freedom that exists in a society is determined more by the economic and technological structure of the society than by its laws or its form of government.

[T.K.]

ETSI OMNES, NON EGO