The Apocalypse threatens. Usually it is not possible to see it with the naked eye, it is underground or under the sea, in the belly of submarines. At most it alludes, with missile dinosaurs exhibited in military parades. Like Hell, she is invisible, she is there, motionless, silent, a calm that has lasted for more than seventy years. The Bomb is a prison without barbed wire. As for that of the Evangelist and his twenty-seventh and final Book, the shelves of libraries are full of her: treatises and analyses, science and politics, much more explicit than the famous Seven Signs… They warn: look, it takes nothing to sink in the middle of the night, the shelter, due to this bombing, will not be enough to survive.
Yes, the nuclear Apocalypse, like death, is the only experience, this collective, universal one, which cannot be experienced. It can only be perceived in the form of anguish, of foreboding, or perhaps of a fatal desire to dissolve. The atomic apocalypse is a kind of logical contradiction, an anterior future.
Perhaps this is why since the war began in Ukraine between Russia and the West he was the only one to mention it, with the brutality of the role he assumed from 24 February 2022 as subverter of everything that seemed consolidated in the scenario of the world, is one of the holders of the Apocalypse, Putin. Again yesterday: «… If our sovereignty is put in danger then we will use our nuclear weapons…».
The others, Biden, Macron, Sunak, who also fuel the normal war and as some naively confess, are already fighting it on the field, overcoming the modesty of non-belligerence, never talk about it: as if it were something impossible, a propaganda weapon loaded to Hello, bold outburst of absolute evil barricaded in the Kremlin.
Strange: the masters of the Western world, all those who excite each other with the victory of good over evil and incite Ukrainians, struggling to exist, not to give up an inch in this metaphysical challenge to which they have succumbed willingly give them the place of honor, that of cannon fire and martyrs, no one wants to see, no one wants to hear. That is, it is not certain that the happy ending of the dizzying challenge for Cuba in 1962 will work: up to this point but no further. That race one millimeter from atomic war stopped because the USA and the USSR decided that a pawn on the Cold War chessboard was not important enough to cause it to fall into the Apocalypse. But Putin is not Khrushchev, the summarily Marxist Caribbean of the talkative Leader Maximo (a tropical Zelensky) is not Crimea or Donbass. Because these are the untouchable sovereignties that Putin sinisterly alludes to.
The truth is that it is omitted to keep a united front, to prevent public opinion from asking too many embarrassing questions: do you know what the final point is? We become stunned by certainties, we believe what we take for certain without having proof: the post-Soviet imperialist, he won't dare, knows his limits and that he would be immediately annihilated…
In the case of a risk of atomic war, silence is also an act. Death and nothingness must be taken into consideration. Suddenly the human definition that we have given to things, even to war, disappears and they look at us with the primitive extraneousness usually veiled by illusions. Perhaps it is really too much to ask mediocrities like Biden or power-obsessed people like Putin to realize that he has dragged himself every day into a strip of darkness like an Orestes with the distant screams of the Furies behind him.
Civilization has a thin layer, rain is enough to erase it as the twentieth century taught us. Then the masters of the Bomb must be forced. What is needed is a terrorism of the gaze, forcing them to look at what the war has already produced in lives mowed down along the banks of the Dnieper, those who had a good cause and those who did not, and who perhaps have an even more right to it because they are alone, right to see the bread of mercy broken.
We need a return of militant reflexes, to go on a crusade against those who teach us to hate on both sides, to establish that we have nothing to do with them, with their hallucinations and nonsense that the scourge has unleashed. Good metaphor, all things considered, of the role of intellectuals. It's a shame that almost all of them are enlisted, eager to act as messengers for dangerous illusions.
The Pope does not close his eyes despite being crucified by ramshackle interpreters. And he uses the words of another Pope for the useless massacre. When he was raging the slaughter of the Great War.
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