It is not a lack of intelligence, nor ignorance.
Stupidity is born when we give value to what has none, or when we assign absolute meaning to what has been created by the mind or by human hands.
Ideas are not dangerous in themselves.
They become dangerous when we believe they tell the truth about who we are.
When a thought is given a meaning it does not possess, it ceases to be a tool and becomes a master.
Thus man creates God, the system, the nation, the ideology, and then kneels before his own creation.
He calls this act “faith.”
But faith divides.
And everything that divides human beings from one another inevitably leads to conflict.
From this come wars, separations, borders, enemies.
Not because human beings are evil, but because they have given the wrong value to what they have thought.
And this is the deepest form of stupidity.
Depending on the way we live, we produce order or chaos.
Peace or violence.
Happiness or unhappiness.
These are not external events: they are direct consequences of our way of thinking and relating.
For this reason, revolution cannot be social.
It cannot be political.
It cannot be economic.
Revolution must begin within the individual.
If the relationship between human beings is not born from an inner transformation, then society, as it is, absorbs the individual.
It makes him static.
Repetitive.
Predictable.
Every attempt to change the structure without changing the mind that sustains it is destined to fail.
The form renews itself, but the content remains the same.
It is enough to walk through the streets to see that the structure is collapsing.
We do not need historians.
We do not need analysts.
The disintegration is visible, daily, ordinary.
And yet we continue to search for new systems, new leaders, new models.
As if redesigning the façade were enough to save the building.
The truth is that new foundations are needed.
New facts.
New values.
But these architects do not yet exist.
They do not exist because no one truly wants to observe.
Because to observe would mean seeing the collapse within oneself as well.
And to transform.
There is no one who, becoming aware of the collapse, is becoming an architect.
There are only spectators commenting on the ruins.
This is our problem.
