Wars and simpletons

The poor deluded souls are many, so many, far too many.
You see them facing off on two sides of public opinion artificially created on the battlefield of a conflict, a diatribe, or a dispute.
With the stubborn certainty of a mule, they always know who is right and who is wrong. They accuse the deluded souls of the opposing camp, which is equally phony, of naivety or malice. They accuse opposing public opinion of being subservient to propaganda and wave the sources aligned with their own side as custodians of pure truth.
They cheer, putting on that pathetic yet irritating air of misunderstood analysts.
The tragicomic twist to all this is that they are right. Every single one of them is right. The accusations they hurl against their "enemies" are true. They are true on both sides, however.
The reason for this moronic polarization is well known: the inability—which characterizes certain simple minds—to handle chaos, the complexity inherent in every sector of reality, not only social but also anthropological, biological, natural. A complexity they deal with every day in their miserable lives, but which paradoxically they cannot accept when it comes to events taking place at a higher, and therefore even more complicated, level.
One could watch them with tenderness and leave them splashing around in their pathetic simplified kiddie pool for those who don't know how to swim in rough waters.
The problem is that their number is not negligible; on the contrary, it is massive, and thus it influences the society that we too must live in. Those who wield power—political, media, or financial—know this and act accordingly, feeding the polarized explanations provided to these self-proclaimed clever ones. They thus manage to evade the control that would be necessary to make them perform their duties for the benefit of the community rather than themselves.
It is the "divide and conquer" of Roman memory. Still extremely relevant and effective today.
Unfortunately, this is a self-feeding spiral, a vicious circle, an almost irreversible tendency.
We nevertheless have a duty—moral, human, secularly sacred—to keep trying. If it was all in vain, at least we will have nothing to reproach ourselves for.
And if it ends in catastrophe, we can point the finger and declare: "We told you so!" A meager consolation is always better than fat and cowardly inaction.

This post was machine-translated from Italian.