Writing about freedom these days is extremely dangerous. Dangerous because, generally, one risks uttering meaningless platitudes and because the term “freedom” has become “too free,” creating no small number of problems.
Put this way, my reasoning might seem convoluted and unclear. In reality, it is based on an initial postulate. May I remind all readers of the definition of “postulate,” a term used in mathematics: “An initial postulate is a fundamental statement or principle accepted as true, without the need to prove its truth.”
My starting point is this: if the President of the United States can freely exercise freedom of speech without considering the consequences of his statements, then I freely and proudly profess myself to be a freedom obscurantist. This initial postulate allows me to affirm that the term “freedom” is not for everyone, and should be regulated by a commission of wise elders, whose task is to intercept all the fools in the world who misuse this word and punish them with a long and mystical silence. These same wise men should re-teach the great men of the earth the value of words, the power of an affirmation, and remind them that they were elected not as monarchs with absolute power, but to represent the voters who, on trust, sent them to the seats of politics in the name of peace and brotherhood.
I conclude by saying that humanity needs silence, reflection, kind gestures and concrete actions. Perhaps we should silently abandon social media, forget our phones under a rug, listen to the silence and reject the verbal violence that has recently spread throughout our lives. Perhaps the saying that example comes from above is no longer valid; I believe this statement needs to be reversed, holding those of us in the audience, who are below, responsible for the proper use of freedom of speech. This sinuous wave, which will start from the bottom, I am sure will reach the top with the force of a tsunami, overwhelming the world’s leaders and all their supporters.
