by Monica Valendino
The sharpest minds that currently govern the West do not go by a day in which they do not promote a war against Russia which promises to be devastating for the Old Continent and, above all, for its citizens who can see what they want in Putin, but who has he certainly doesn’t see a grain of salt in his head as a Napoleon with a hat. Indeed, more and more people are playing the conquering leader Macron, well accompanied by the EU leaders who, after having quietly obeyed the wishes of the stars and stripes for years, have begun to sense that if America is leaving the field then it is better to occupy it ourselves. Too bad the field in question is Ukraine and that any further move forward can only lead to a direct comparison. Probably nuclear, at least at a tactical if not strategic level if we don’t stop in time.
The most surprising thing is the arguments propaganda that rulers use, things like “you need to prepare for war to have peace”, something that not even Orwell would have thought in such a shamelessly idiotic way. Maybe it would be appropriate an etymological course quick to understand what they are talking about.
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Peace derives from the Latin “pax” which in turn derives from the Sanskrit “pak”, meaning negotiation. Precisely what the West repudiates Zelensky who even prohibited it by decree. And to think that to treat derives from “trahere”, to draw something. To do this, a negotiation is needed “business“ a denial of idleness for Latins, that idleness that must be taken as a virtuous and peaceful moment in which to avoid negotiations which inevitably lead to granting something and taking the best that can be obtained based on the moment in which they are held. So, the longer this situation with Russia goes on, the less we can get from a negotiation.
Also the reclamation of the borders it appears to be a propaganda method to carry forward the bellicose line, forgetting some fundamental considerations: all borders are conventions, waiting to be overcome; you can overcome any convention, only if you can first conceive of being able to do so, but there is no natural border, every limit we see has been indicated by us ourselves out of opportunism, but we have always there is no boundary that will not be crossed or reshaped.
After all, it is an ambiguous notion: with-end, the end that is (that I have) in common with the other. A place therefore not only of separateness, but also of crossings: legal, and sometimes clandestine, although almost always tolerated.
The border is this. It formally separates identities, and paradoxically unites people: who, often, on both sides of the border, are more similar to each other than the lands and people of the border are to their respective centres, to the capitals of the country to whom they belong and govern them.
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Also because when we talk about borders we inevitably talk about neighbors. From Latin “village” that is, rione, the alley, the lowest common denominator of Roman properties, the place where everyday life is lived more than any other. So much so that we talk about a neighbor, with whom we often try to maintain good relations, we look for someone to lean on in case of need. Also because the worst possible misfortune it’s having a neighbor with whom you argue every day. So sometimes you need to “negotiate”, find a balance even by giving up something in order to live together well.
Cum Vivere precisely, living together because it always derives from Latin roommate, composed of “con” together and tavern, tavern, but also hut, dwelling. Cohabit, share, coexist. Everything leads to reason, to “ratio”, the inevitable philosophical discourse that in classical antiquity the terms of λόγος and, indeed, ratio have, nothing other than the general reasoning-discursive activity of man, whereby he is typically distinguished from all other animals.
But that today seems to have happened forgotten dramatically of all this.
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