The Return of John Ludos

The readers aware of the Conan Doyle story His Last Bow (and that have familiarity with the Italian language), will not be surprise to see me continuing my blog, despite my last post John Ludos last bow.
The long break was needed to try and better understand a series of important events, and to have the time to research about some topics whose comprehension would have made the continuation of this blog difficult, if not impossible.
When many things are not straight and honest, and no coherent narrative thread is to be found, it is a better idea to keep for oneself the half baked attempt to put things in order.

The current renewing phase, and the reprise of the pen is direct consequence of having come to some ideas, some stories, and above all to a re-evaluation of the importance of history, of narratives, metaphors and archetypes.

We all live inside the stories that are telling each others, and we use these stories to interpret and frame what is happening around us. And every story has its own heroes, telling us how we wish to be, and as its evil characters, showing us how we do not want to appear. Moreover, every story goes through the same Darwinian natural selection: the surviving stories do so because they provide to the people hearing and telling them the mental tools to proceed in the tragedy of existence, and if the story dies out, it is because it suggests an interpretation of the facts not compatible with reality: the people telling these stories, betrayed by their own senses, eventually become extinct.

Darwin can be translated further with: who has the highest chance of survival is not the one who has the strongest story, or the best story in an absolute sense. It is who has the story that adapts best and quickly enough to the needs dictated by the harsh and complex reality.

The blog therefore starts again. And again it starts with a renewed spirit, a Mitteleuropean spirit. Articles now on will be proposed both in Italian and in English, so that more readers will find the inspirations for their future actions into the stories of the outsiders, scientists, and notable characters of the past. That is a kind of knowledge that Nietzsche believed it to be something more valuable than a mansion: a point of view.