Intellectual anorexia. It’s a self-destructive spirit

March 11, 2025 Reflections of a heretic

We’re not just able to destroy your bodies, we can destroy your souls too.

“Primo Levi”


Intellectual anorexia. It’s a self-destructive spirit

Intellectual anorexia
It’s like they’ve lost the will to live.

A lot of people in the world are in a kind of intellectual slump.

It’s like a disease where a person doesn’t feel the need for intellectual stimulation.
They don’t read, they watch the news all the time, and they have no hobbies.

They’re just working, eating, and sleeping.
When they do take a vacation, they go to some beach to tan like a breeding chicken.

It’s like they’ve lost the will to live.
Going out to discos and getting drunk.

This is a transgression.
If you’re not living a little dangerously, you’re not really living.

Because living is transgressing, and transgressing is living.

Having hobbies is a sign of wealth.
I don’t have time for that.

But if you don’t make time for yourself, you’ll never find it.



Pressappointment and superficiality

The real evils of our age.

There’s always an argument about something.
But we never think about the reasons behind them.
The motivations.

People just want to avoid confrontation.
This means they don’t get the chance to respond.

And of course, we all think we’re right.
You can’t really be refuted by someone who can’t respond.

It’s too easy.

It’s a self-destructive spirit

Intellectual anorexia
Misery is the only impersonal force…

I’m starting to think that it’s not possible to act in such a blatantly self-destructive way.
And actually, it’s not.

It’s not when you think about how being aware of things is becoming more common.
We’re starting to see a new kind of awareness, where people are comparing their real lives with the lifestyles portrayed by the media.

This comparison brings out some real worries.
Misery is the only impersonal force that puts limits on any “action class“.

Good political control at a time like this comes precisely from filling a people with debt.

It’s not about giving people the tools to bounce back, but more like creating a sense of responsibility for their failures through a little game that, in a nutshell, goes something like this:

But how ?
I trusted you unconditionally, gave you all the money you needed, and let you make any purchase, and now you’re making me lose my job ?

But you’re a wretch ! Shame on you!  At your age, I expected some responsibility !

Look, just because you’re a citizen of this great state, don’t question, don’t criticize, just accept my decisions and maybe we can get you back on your feet… maybe…you wretch, look how far you’ve brought us to save you from starvation…

They carried on, not even paying attention to what was being said.
But the important thing is that the “armaments” expenditure item is steadily increasing.