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There are so many crisis that
it's now just another way of life.
I remember a play from an author I liked a lot. Not too popular today though he was at the time.
Swiss: Friedrich DŸrrenmatt, a great author.
He wrote a play about the last Roman emperor, Septimius Severus
At a certain point his Secretary shows up and tells him the city of Pavia has fallen.
Then he goes on and tells him how the rest of the cities are falling in hands of the barbarians.
But the emperor is undaunted, almost stoic,
and doesn't seem much worried. So the Secretary, frightened, exclaims:
"The Roman Empire is collapsing!" And he replies "The Roman Empire has been
collapsing for 100 years. And the moment it collapses completely, it's because it has succeded."
The world sustains itself
in the illusion that it will continue to reproduce.
But it's falling apart. And that collapsed world is pure remains. And what is left over, if a person
could perceive it radically, is nothing but emotions. The way we open up to others, how
we can give and receive love. Kindness. But the world rebuilds itself. And suddenly, it's
back there again.
Precisely it's the world that prevents our psypathologies from transforming into benign.
That gigantic conversion.