Nous voyons toujours la «banalité du mal» chez les autres, et jamais en nous-mêmes. Le problème majeur de l’humanité réside à cet endroit. Pourquoi certains deviennent des monstres, de quelque bord qu’ils se situent? Qu’est-ce qui pousse à torturer, tuer, violer, «au nom du Bien»?

"In the spring, which suits this city so well that speaks to us of flowers, I decided to come from South America to finally realize an old dream: to reopen, with a group of apprentice philosophers, the Neoplatonic Academy of Marsilio Ficino."

All totalitarian islets create their own "newspeak", for example within companies that operate by terrorizing, harassing and persecuting their employees. All totalitarianism lives off the conquest of "ideological pretension" (Hannah Arendt) and the "rectification of thought" (Mao). To overcome these ideological levels, which are increasingly moving away from the search for truth and knowledge, and to persecute opponents, the instrumentalization of language is necessary.