Machiavellic Kindness

Machiavellic Kindness

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 30/12/2022 “When fortune desires great things to be done, it works competently in choosing a man of great genius (…).” 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 23/12/2022 “(…) the things of the world are directed by fortune and by God, so that human prudence cannot correct them (…).” 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 09/12/2022 “(…) he who is concerned with what should be done instead of what is done, learns his own ruin rather than how to preserve himself; (…).” 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 01/12/2022 “There is such a difference between the way one lives and the way one should live (…).” 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 28/11/2022 You cannot have as friends those who put you there, because they cannot be satisfied as they […]

Fiction | 16318 BC Krakatoa

Fiction | 16318 BC Krakatoa

🔸 01/11/2022 Prologue | Today is the beginning of the great transformation! – “Something is wrong”, said Indrawi, when the clouds suddenly covered the sun shortly after noon on the immense beach of crystalline sands near the access to the village of the Hulubelu volcano. 🔸🔸 07/11/2022 – Fear of the inevitable? asked Suliman in an ironic tone. Indrawi accustomed to the natives’ disbelief was not shaken. He was the seventh in the hierarchy of Moonstone priests on the island of Krakatoa and the one who mastered all the fertility mysteries of land, animals and humans. 🔸🔸🔸 21/11/2022 An exceptionally tall man with long, slender legs, forty-five years old, but with […]

Non-trivial Impunities

Non-trivial Impunities

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 27/12/2022 How is it possible to validate a lenient sentence for those who have caused severe harm for “justifiable” reasons? 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 13/12/2022 Who cares about those anonymous, seen at a glance and now suddenly dead from unknown causes? 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 02/12/2022 During wars, mutilated bodies pile up: there is nothing left but to mourn and pay brief homage. 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 01/12/2022 Benefits often determine credibility and opportunity for unspeakable practices, covered by good memories. 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 29/11/2022 “At the bend in the river I sat down and cried. What else could I do if no one there considered what I suffered anymore?” 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 23/11/2022 In a world full of impunity, only the […]

Dominant Nations

Dominant Nations

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 29/12/2022 NATO has clearly shown itself to shirk its responsibilities towards the European Community. 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 22/12/2022 The European Community is increasingly weakened by its political-economic “stunting” and internal antagonisms. 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 08/12/2022 The Ukraine war is an Eastern maneuver, not just a Russian one, to establish a decisively prevalent position in international trade. 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 01/12/2022 Dominant nations appreciate collapsing societies whose prevailing cultural, economic and political contexts are no longer suited to global transformation. 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 28/11/2022 Games between dominant nations have long ceased to be monarchical, but their leaders play important roles as accusatory targets. 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 25/11/2022 The current and apparent global humanitarian atmosphere has served to soften drastic measures: rational […]