Fabrizio Ulivieri

“Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.” — Alexis de Tocqueville I am more and more convinced, and the more I think about it and the more I realize that is true, that many people don't want liberty and they don't know what to do with their freedom (1) Many people don't know what liberty means and what liberty can be figured out. Why? Very simple, they are born slaves. Or at least they were maybe born free but they hastily have learned to become slaves. They have been framed inside a culture of enslavement (i.e. democracy, in western countries) from the very beginning of their existence. And what is terrible, they love it and accept it without questioning it. In Democracy, there is a tendency to oppress people in their spirit, and if your spirit is not well developed, has strongly developed the components of listening to the Spirit (for this concept, read HERE ), you end up accepting this oppression. Democracy enhances

Many know the word liberty but few can live in the perception of freedom I am on the verge of...of what? I cannot Imagine "on what verge of" I am. I have no past and my future is running out. I am tranquil though. I've never been so tranquil. I even cannot imagine how it can be that I am so tranquil. The world is falling asunder but I am tranquil and I cannot explain precisely why, I am so calm. Nothing can harm me. Nothing. I feel it. It's in my bones. Oh God, I love you! Oh Mary, I pray you every day. You changed my life. How was my life? How did I get to these last days? I worked all my life and my life was despicable. This is what I remember of my life. My past life. Work and disdain. I believed in the man, That was my error. I believed in humanity, I believed in equality, in justice, in righteousness, in goodness. Many mistakes and the biggest one was to believe in the man, to believe that the man can be inherently good when it is not. Too late I have been aware