Questions and Meditations

9 Open societies

Sometimes, disorder is a gift and a chance, insofar as it arouses or elicits an opening and a call. - “O Lord, let Truth reign, I no longer want anything but Thee, what Thou wantest…!” – (to be translated according to languages and cultures, the differences in formulation do not matter).

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From the inner standpoint, democracy is a sorry solution, since it gives ignorance the Right to dominate by the numbers. Yet, while the “Vox Populi” is often the expression of the most obscure, dumbest and heaviest instincts, it is also at times deeper and clearer than the voice of the ambitious, greedy and arrogant self-driven types; but only an awakened and disinterested consciousness may distinguish between the sources of its dynamics and seek to work for the good of the whole. Those who are elected – by “the people” – are so on the basis of promises they will never be in a position to keep, contracting debts they will never be able to repay honorably: and thus will they have to let themselves be bought one way or another (reasonably, courteously, or more bluntly and crudely). Those who actually govern are “the others”, the industry tycoons, the financiers, the big entrepreneurs and media barons – and the members of the grey occult area who occupy the less visible part of the State edifice and do not depend on the will of the citizens, forming the administrative hierarchy that can modulate the flows of power. There are also, almost anonymous and bound to watch and observe, the servitors of the people, of the nation or of the soul of the country, those who have been trained in respect and integrity, in the discipline of service, the sense of duty, the preservation of the founding values and the defense of the homeland. They are those who truly bear the collective banner.

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