Thanks to Beatrice for calling my attention to this item...
The wall of idiocy
[or The consequence of groupthink]
Translated from the blog of
January 10, 2019
The password for the Planetary Cretin to make himself known and admired is: “We want bridges, not walls”. As soon as he says this, the Planetary Cretin will be lit up with incense, believe he has stated Mankind’s Supreme Truth, and display a smile of triumphal inebriation.
There is no sermon, no institutional discourse, no article, lecture or public message, no concert, film or theatrical show that is not preceded, followed or stuffed with this obligatory phrase. The Global Imbecile feels his conscience is in place, and is filled with a sense of moral superiority just by saying it. He differs from others like him depending only on whether he is a Neapolitan fool, a South American boob or a Sicilian lump. In Lombardy, there is a precise expression to describe someone those who posts himself at the frontier ready to be at the service of newcomers for a compensation:
bauscia.
The Planetary Cretin always says the same thing, whether speaking of migrants or any other ‘protected’ category. He is always welcoming, as he is exhorted everyday by the testimonials of the ‘No Wall’ protesters, the Pope, and those politicians who daily earn a place in the popularity polls of those who persist in hitting their heads against walls.
The global parrots demonstrate against walls but their slogan is meant to wall up the Enemy, to separate from evolved and welcoming mankind those movements and persons inspired by patriotic love, by national sovereignty, by civilization and by tradition.
The call to break down walls and build dridges has become obsessive not only regarding peoples and territorial borders, but even sexes and natural limits, cultures and conduct, religions and affiliations, even the human reign of the animal kingdom. From the United Nations to the Golden Globe awards, from the preaching in talk shows to song and dance,
the wave of idiocy is taking down the wall of common sense.
I wish first of all to note that
the most infamous walls known to man are not those that keep people from entering but those which keep them from leaving. As necessarily, prison walls are, and the last infamous Wall in history, the Berlin Wall. Which was built not by any nationalist or sovereignist regime, not by a ditator and not by Trump, but by Communism. Whoever sought to breach that Wall and its barbed wire defenses to escape oppression was shot down by the Vopos [East German police].
No authoritarian or nationalist regime ever needed to build a wall to keep its people from escaping. Nor have there been population exoduses comparable to what Communism has inspired. And if we wish to confine ourselves to the Italian experience, to Rome in particular,
there is only one wall in the heart of the capital that cannot be breached – the Vatican Walls, where the reigning pope preaches to the world but not to himself to bring down walls and welcome everyone.
Other famous walls, the walls of tears and of shame, do not belong to Christianity. That said, a sense of 'confinement' is attributed to those who love civilization and tradition, country and of national sovereignty.
Confinement implies a sense of limits, of measure, of that threshold necessary to respect differences, roles, identities and communities.
All physical limitations are thresholds, doors which can be opened or closed, which can be used for confrontation whether in conversation or in conflict. At any rate, they limit or defend when necessary.
But the society without roots in our day has lost this sense of confinement – in fact it has overrun the limits among peoples, sexes, and persons. It has lost the boundary between what is legal and what is illegal.
To lose such limits is synonymous to transgression, bashing in, mad raving. The worst curse for the Greeks was hubris, which is losing oneself and all sense of measure in the infinite. Confinement is protection, ecurity, humility, care of the weak – it is not hostility or racism.
I would advise you to read Regis Debray’s ‘Eloge des frontieres’ (In praise of frontiers).
[A 2012 essay by author and philosopher Debray, born 1950, in which he defined ‘limitation’ as necessary in this world, to the perpetuation of life, in a protest against ‘sans frontierisme’ (a world without borders). He is also known for his association with Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 andfor advancing Salvador Allende’s presidency on Chile in the early 1970s.]
To the more modest, I would advise the eulogy on walls by Alberto Angela
[Italian paleontologist, journalist and science popularizer, born 1962] who is by no means an official of the SS.
[In 2017, Angela delivered a monologue in praise of walls on a popular TV talk show, in which he said, among other things, “A wall unites not just one people, but several peoples in the course of time… Without a wall or walls, we would not have today so many historic landmarks, masterpieces of art and ingenuity… Walls serve to protect persons, as those of a home; or to preserve thought, as in a library, or to preserve art, as in a museum or the Sistine Chapel… It is not the wall which is our enemy – it is the use that is made of it”.]
- Without walls, there are no homes, no temples, no security.
- Without walls, there is no modesty, intimacy, protection from the elements and from being incognito.
- Without walls, there is no sense of measure, no acknowledgement of limitations, much less of one’s own limitations.
- Without walls, there is no beauty, no fortitude, no city foundations, no building a civilization.
It is not by chance that the Eternal City was born from Romulus who set its limits, not from Remo who violated them.
Walls make up the bastions of civilization, hospitals of charity, libraries of culture, walls of art, recollection in prayer.
If the Planetary Cretin does not understand this, it was understood well by the anarchists of Tarnac who considered the collapse of their 'wall' as a victory for chaos and anarchy:
“The destruction of the capacity for autonomy of those who are dominated comes after the abolition of the frontiers of their being – individually and collectively. As long as there are frontiers, it is possible to oppose one system of values against another, one kind of right against another, to distinguish man from woman, mother from father, a citizen from an alien – in short, to distinguish true from false, just from unjust, normal from abnormal” (Gouverner par le Chaos – Ingénierie Sociale et Mondialisation, 2008) (Governing through chaos: Social engineering and globalization, 2008)
[The anarchists of Tarnac were well-educated leftist young people who settled in Tarnac, a rural area of France which has a long history of communism, in order to live simply and communally. In November 2008, they were arrested by the French police for 'criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity', on the grounds that they had participated in the sabotage of overhead electrical lines on France's national railways in late October and early November that year. In April 2018, following a long and complex legal case, the group were acquitted of the most serious charges brought against them, some members being convicted on lesser charges.]
Cities without confines lose their identity, as people lose their identifying lineaments. Do not mistake love for family as homophobia, love for one’s country as xenophobia, love for one’s own civilization as racism, love for one’s own tradition as Islamophobia. Nor love for being confined within known halls as hate.
Of course, none of this is known to the Planetary Cretin.