Thursday 12th March 2009

Francesco Alberoni: “Over the last twenty years a lot of sociologists were sure they had identified the evolutive trend of our society. From agricultural it has changed into industrial, then post-industrial, and finally post-modern. In the postmodern society, they explained us, not only ideologies fade away but all the certainties and the «law of contradiction» itself, so we do not have to decide if this or that is true, both are. Reality and illusion mix up, objective reality is not important, only image, appearance.

The national State as a source of certainties loses its value, Welfare State is not necessary anymore. People group into tribes, around a football team, a blog, a brand. According to someone we can no longer talk about citizens, but consumers. We do not look at the future, the company wants immediate results. We do not get rich by making good products, but with smart financial operations. Everything is temporary, liquid. We look for success immediately, immediate fame, immediate pleasure, no matter how. Individualism and hedonism dominate. Such a diagnosis about what our society is and where it is going was taught at universities as a dogma, at masters, lectures until last summer. Only today we get aware that what was described as a historical trend, actually was the symptom of a disease. Indifference to future, inability to foresee, the pursue of immediate profit, unscrupulousness of some financial operations so admired; all this caused a worldwide crisis. No, postmodern did not represent tomorrow.

Today we understand that there is still a difference between reality and imagination, between reality and appearance. There are banks and companies that go bust actually, there are real unemployed people, real poor people, and we need real investments, not imaginary ones. The law of non-contradiction has not disappeared because we really have to make choices, make real decisions. The consumers is not the yesterday’s naughty king anymore, he has to cash up accurately. And everybody looks at the State again, to ask for help and certainties to the State, first the proud banks and the great companies.

Every one of us makes their projects accurately and wisely. And we do not stand laxism, sloppiness, chatting anymore. We ask for realism, precision, rigor, concreteness”.

 

The bare-bones ideological speech of the prophet is: human Catholicism.

 

Suicidal impulses. At the moment the author cannot recognize them.

 

Demons believe but do not love. How many believers are demons.

 

Wednesday 11th March. The Carthusian dedicates his morning to Jesus as God of angels. In the evening, coming back to Monopoli, in his car, despite the noise of the traffic, for about 20 minutes, he can hear the very first notes of the Christmas Lied Stille Nacht by Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber: “Silent Night, Holy night, all is calm, all is bright, round your Virgin Mother and Child, Holy Infant so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace”. Voices not identifiable in their gender: women? children? men? Much subtle far sidereal purest. More sounds than voices, not mnemonically reproducible.

The Carthusian will think about it later. 1) Was Jesus born in spring? 2) angels are heralds of news: the figure of the prophet of the prophets is about to emerge officially.

This article is available in Italian too