A Chinese proverb says: “When the wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger.”
The fool is often a clever man disguised as a simpleton.
He has his own interest in denying the objective existence of the moon and directs the attention of an entire crowd to the facets of a nail or to almost invisible cuticles.
Likewise, in a speech about the common good, the fool
* which does not conceive of the common good * instrumentally reduces everything to subjective questions.
It is a dynamic that occurs in any area of human existence, from political scenarios to traffic disputes, from climate issues to the most banal condominium meetings.
It is not surprising if, if you are hit by a collision at night at a red light, you are accused of having a black car and therefore not perfectly visible;
or if, when inviting you to remove old asbestos boxes from the terrace of a building, you hear the answer: "Those boxes have never killed anyone!"
and we are accused of wanting to do an injustice to those who have to continue to hang out the laundry.
Sometimes torts are not only endorsed, but defended just as if they were rights. The essay persists in pointing to the moon: he collects evidence, documents, photographs, enlargements, analyses.
"Here she is!" he reiterates, showing it. But the fool is always ready to reply: "It must be a reflection from some street lamp" or "It must be that your finger was shiny."
Nothing can make those who want to continue not seeing the moon see the moon, because the wise and the foolish speak two different languages: one is that of those who want to understand, the other is that of those who want to cover.
Sometimes, in order not to show the moon, the fool would be ready to cut off the finger that points to it.
If I have always loved fairy tales it is because in them the distinction between victim and executioner is clear, a distinction which, however, requires effort, decades and tragedies (and sometimes not even enough) to be admitted into reality.
Every day we witness executioners who want to pass themselves off as victims. Of Little Red Riding Hood today the wolf would say that it was she who provoked him, that she was unpleasant with those braids of hers, that she was looking for it a little when she went into the woods, that he had never bothered anyone, that if he had made a mistake 'he had done it in good faith: he wanted to put the baby in his stomach just to keep her warm, considering it was winter.
Tones would be judged, not actions; faces, not facts; the inconsistent would be placed on the scales until it weighs more than any other counterweight of truth.
If I have always loved fairy tales it is because in there, if you look closely, the roles are clear and the facts establish them.
Between victim and executioner, I'm on the victim's side.
I prefer those who resist to those who rage, I prefer those who are judged to those who judge with extreme superficiality.
I prefer to live with the three-dimensionality of a conscience rather than live in the flatness of those who do not possess it or have lost it.
I couldn't trade this sense of richness for anything else.
I'd rather look at the moon than the wart on my finger.
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Do you think you know the truth even about the progress of a war?
Or what have you ever been told?
The winners write """"The truth of what happened"""
Yes, but truly certain that there is only one war, battle, raids, good and bad,
The bad guys are always...The others
(Please note: those we should consider AS SUCH!)
There are no good people, there are no bad people, there are no right people, there are no wrong people, there is nothing you have informational CLARITY about and you will never, ever have it.
They convinced you that separate states existed.
That is, miniaturized states...of a pan-Arab state.
Have you ever looked at a geographical map with such REGULAR, precise and lost borders as between Africa and the Middle East?
The only certainty is that there is no certainty.
They'll tell you about it.
And everyone knows everything they didn't know until the day before last.
In other forums I saw people knowing very well about cities like Mariupol and others who didn't even know they existed until a week before.
Yet I swear they knew everything.
Everything that was instilled in them by their rulers.
So you know about Israel... which perhaps you know very little about, so you know about history about which you will never know anything true.
But only episodes... told...
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Nothing happens before a dream.
(Carl Sandburg)
19 Oct 2023, 3:29 am
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