The limit, understood as a pause in time and space, helps us to reflect and gives action an extremely interesting definition.
The limit, understood as a delimitation and not as an inability to evolve, brings an important meaning to the discourse and to the intrinsic project.
We live in a society drowning in the extraordinary.
The ordinary has lost all interest in the eyes of a new generation, and is despised and misunderstood.
Misunderstood in its beauty, because it is the structure of the present, and misunderstood in its importance, because it is the fruit of healthy and persevering work.
The limit, then, understood as a framework, a delimited action, an accomplished reflection, can constitute a fundamental element in the reconstruction of our social organisation and our project.
This project, which I believe to be the great absentee in the horizontal and vertical dialogue.
“Vertical” in the intergenerational passing of memory.
“Horizontal” in the immediate and constructive exchange between residents of the same era.
Because, although we all live on the same planet, let’s not forget that we all occupy the same temporal space, but with completely different intelligences, potentials and forecasting capacities.
The appreciation of space is relatively simple, but the experience of the same temporal cell requires a minimum effort of abstraction.
The art of the limit becomes an “unsubstitutable” value in the birth of collective thought from below.
The grassroots, rich in numbers, cultures and life paths, can objectively contribute to the creation of a global thought rich in individualities.
A global way of thinking and acting in which shared scientific evolution can contribute to a uniform rise in quality of life (medicine, logistics), but also to the creation of a global way of thinking based on mutual respect, while maintaining and supporting a more local and regional way of thinking.
The West has granted itself a monopoly on morality.
Obviously subject to interest, but disguised to make it justifiable, exportable, “taxable”.
The value of the limit applies to many situations.
1 – Reflection (Social and philosophical) Fair and brief considerations, to help the listener understand and stimulate reflection.
Provide the keys, the direction and never the solution, at least in the first stage.
To awaken the capacity for transversal analysis and the feeling of inestimable inner power.
Bringing strength back to the individual, without devaluing the masses, or better still, the numbers.
Because the intuition of the single can feed the many and vice versa the many can give birth to collective thinking.
2 – Energy
Using the full potential available is an illogical and suicidal way to live.
Cars, travel, food.
The sun and energy are lost and wasted every day.
The limit underpins the idea of responsible use, which pushes us towards a more refocused way of life that is more respectful of mankind and nature.
3 – Power
It must remain local, regional and national.
Today, apart from the political geography that has already been established, major projects always carry with them an extreme thirst for domination.
Obviously disguised as a quest for security.
Dividing in the past, and now destabilising in order to intervene and take control, is déjà vu.
Power also lies in the imbalance of an indisputable force.
This is what we are witnessing at the moment, with the muted management of a pandemic that has totally diverted attention from a host of more urgent and deadly issues and realities.
4 – Existence
Life, youth, maturity and its value.
The prolongation of life, the desire to postpone deadlines without nourishing the time of passage.
The lack of consideration for the experience of the elderly, who are isolated because they are seen as useless.
A society cannot be organised in such a way as to deprive itself of the profound and indispensable value of experience and wisdom.
The fact that this potential is not recognised pushes back the tolerable limit of a repetition of historical and existential errors.
I hope I have triggered in the reader a desire for moderation and balance.
True strength lies in the ability to master it.
