Rising from the artificial society

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by  Francesco Cicione

In the hour of the tomb, the truth comes back to life and life becomes true again.

> In this artificial hell, the natural Human is lost and bewildered, for it was not created for artificiality: it was created to fulfill its nature. Artificial society kills the Human. By building artificial society, the Human has declared—in effect—the death of the Human itself: a planned, silent, incremental, and widely applauded suicide.

> This is the pervasive dynamic to which our children and adolescents (and humanity as a whole) are subjected. It's much more than a simple addiction to scrolling. Contemporary society lacks the principle of reality and, consequently, the principle of normativity and authenticity. "Nihil est in intellectu quod prius non fuerit in sensu," Thomas Aquinas reminded us. Humanity has constructed an intellect without meaning—without that primordial contact with reality that only authentic, embodied, wounded, and healed experience can provide. It has constructed a world of "incorporeal objects" and unnecessary necessities, in which—as Gian Paolo Caprettini wrote—"relations of exchange become increasingly abstract" and "dependencies on needs increasingly inscrutable."

> There is a word in the Gospel of John—spoken in a stone hall, before a hostile audience, in an occupied city—that tradition has handed down to the centuries as one of the pinnacles of anthropological revelation: "The truth will set you free." Not: regulation will set you free. Not: prohibition will set you free. Not: the fairest algorithm will set you free. The truth. Only the truth. That same truth that on Good Friday seemed definitively defeated—buried, sealed, guarded by armed soldiers—is the truth that, on Easter Sunday, emerged from the tomb. It is not the truth of an idea. It is the truth of a Person. It is the incarnate Logos. This is the news that Holy Week holds: that truth cannot be definitively buried. That authentic life—the kind that no simulation can replicate—resists every artifice, because it is stronger than any artifice.