The dilemma

Is humanity returning to a dark age? The progressive weakening of any assumption of transcendence presents us with a dilemma. Enemy worlds clash and each proclaims its own truth. But the poor are increasingly poor, the elderly increasingly lonely, the weak increasingly fragile. And as life slips away, we see only drawn faces, deep wounds, a delusional view of the world. Can we do anything to change this fate?

The Barren Tree of Democracy

Why do we sit continually under this barren tree? Why do we not curse it, as Christ cursed the barren fig tree that gave him no fruit when he hungered?

The Barren Tree of Democracy

 Posted on March 13, 2026  |  9 min  |  1886 words  |  Sarah Pattison PhD  • Other languages: Español, Italiano

The world is hungry. We hunger for justice and peace. We are born into a state of hunger, cut off from our mother and turned out to a cruel world as orphaned beggars. We are robbed daily of our peace. Our energy and joy are eaten day and night to fuel the extracting machines of this world: industrialism, capitalism, consumerism. Brutalized, where in this world can we turn for justice? No where. [Read More]
democracy  faith  Jesús Christ 

Are we still human?

Until the end of the history

Are we still human?

 Posted on March 5, 2026  |  3 min  |  535 words  |  Riccardo Colasanti MD  • Other languages: Español, Italiano

It is always terrible to see how humanity, generation after generation, finds its greatest aspiration in war, murder, and destruction. In the annihilation of part of itself. One might say, “It’s not my fault. It’s the other who is my enemy, and therefore I must crush him like a poisonous plant.” This is the same argument used by Cain when questioned by Yahweh after spilling Abel’s blood, who gave the surprising answer, “Who made me my brother’s keeper? [Read More]
tyranny  Civilization  murder  crime 

The relentless cycle of pain

how many generations will have to suffer?

 Posted on February 6, 2026  |  3 min  |  489 words  |  Riccardo Colasanti

It seems that so-called political realism is in vogue, i.e., that there are no laws or rules to protect us, but that it is only important to know how to navigate the conflictual sea of reality, where nothing but force and power make sense. That men, after such a long journey, return to the club, the stone, and the machete is indicative of a regression to the devastating powers of instinct, but also of an intolerance towards what had been the liberal canon in recent years, made up of a dense web of rights, which, however, had been transformed into the garment that Deianira sent to Hercules, a garment soaked in the poison of Naxos. [Read More]
Violence  Realism  Liberalism  ideology 

Human geese

Road Closed

Human geese

 Posted on February 5, 2026  |  2 min  |  358 words  |  Riccardo Colasanti MD  • Other languages: Español, Italiano

Those who go against justice are like wild beasts to other men. With sharp teeth and sweaty, shivering skin. The harshness of strong men, their animal nature, which nothing can stop because they are dominated by their passions, is that of The Genealogy of Morals, when Nietzsche states that evil birds love lambs, “because there is nothing more delicious than a tender lamb.” This principle of forced saturation of one’s own being, this revelry to the point of bursting, eating everything, digesting everything, destroying everything, could be mistaken by some unhappy people for some kind of greatness, like towering above ordinary mortals. [Read More]
tyranny  civilization  murderer  crime 

The autor has passed away

Best wishes!

The autor has passed away

 Posted on January 14, 2026  |  6 min  |  1214 words  |  (maybe) Riccardo Colasanti MD  • Other languages: Español

The year 2026 will likely mark the beginning of a new era, one of artificially produced literature that is indistinguishable from text written by humans. As the practice of writing with AI becomes more widespread, it will no longer be possible to distinguish between the human and the artificial. Everything will be open to question. Only works written before 2026 will be able to be attributed with certainty to a human author. [Read More]
AI  civilization  author  literature 

Artificial intelligence, a perfect false spiritual friend

What a future awaits us!

 Posted on December 20, 2025  |  4 min  |  643 words  |  Riccardo Colasanti MD

Referring to the relationship between doctors and cancer patients, the president of the Rome Medical Association recently stated that it is “a relationship […] that becomes fundamental, and patients, especially those who have suffered from cancer, know this perfectly well. I also say this to send an important message: artificial intelligence will never be able to replace or surpass this empathetic relationship between doctor and patient. Being able to talk, caress, comfort, and have contact is very positive. [Read More]
AI  civilization  health  spirituality 

Memory and Conflict

Transform conflict into a foundation for resilience and unity

 Posted on May 14, 2025  |  3 min  |  445 words  |  Afua A. Tuwumasi-Ankrah, Basilio Monteiro PhD

One of the most stubborn memories is conflict. Conflicts disrupt stability and leave deep physical, psychological, spiritual, and cultural scars on both the individual and the communities they belong to. In communities, these memories of conflict are perpetuated intergenerationally. Conflicts often emerge from the ambitions and exploitation of the powerful, imposed on those with less agency. We often remember conflicts as acts of patriotic virtue—ritualized in ways that shape national and civic identity. [Read More]
memory  conflict   resilience 

Reconciliation and Philanthropy: Serendipitous Siblings

Reconciliation is an ongoing ritual to forge better relationships

 Posted on April 19, 2025  |  4 min  |  649 words  |  Robert Cote, Basilio Monteiro Phd

Reconciliation as a critical component of peacebuilding project usually does not get prioritized; to imagine reconciliation in tandem with philanthropy will sound preposterous to many. Let us re-imagine: “money” is the mover and shaker of everything, big and small, of significant and insignificant. Everything is a commodity which necessitates monetary transaction of high-significant or low-significant value. Use of money is a symbolic manifestation of the meaningfulness, commitment and engagement we attribute to any activity we engage in, whether material, emotional or intellectual. [Read More]
Philanthropy  Reconciliation   peacebuilding 

Innocence to be regained

Money won't save us

 Posted on April 15, 2025  |  3 min  |  488 words  |  Riccardo Colasanti MD

After the Second World War we witnessed the aggregation of local markets into universal markets. This trend was driven by at least two postulates: that the market for all would be the secret formula for success and that a liberal guiding nation had been given the mission from heaven to lay down the rules and set the game. Aggregation was seen as a good thing, as progress exported to peoples who, while maintaining a certain identity of their own, finally accepted the idea that their world was not the ‘right’ one, but that what was right was aggregation behind a demigod-nation that would lead everyone to the highest peaks. [Read More]
Joy  Liberalism   Civilization 

In a fragmented world the need of the hour: Reconciliation

We need Peace

 Posted on March 31, 2025  |  3 min  |  509 words  |  Basilio G. Monteiro PhD

Since World War II multi-lateral international relations emanated from political science dominated the peacebuilding efforts. Eighty years later it is proven to be an unmanageable patchwork in search for a solution. The grand idea of globalization and the aspirational global peace is facing an increasingly fragmented world at war with each other, either an economic war or an actual one with sophisticated and mutually destructive weapons. The forces for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peacebuilding are feeling a gut punch and the wind taken away from them in the prevailing and evolving geo-political realities. [Read More]
Reconciliation  Resolving conflicts   Peace