I have adopted the question and answer format, so handy for rapid exposition. In this case it not an expression of any dogmatic pretensions: we won’t find here a master who interrogates and a disciple who responds. There is an individualist questioning himself. In the first line I wanted to indicate that it was a question of an interior dialogue. While the catechism asks: “Are you Christian?” I say “Am I individualist?” However, prolonged this procedure would bring with it some inconvenience and, having laid out my intention, I remembered that the soliloquy often employs the second person. Continue reading Mini-Manual of Individualism→
Back then, Durdonc, the Great Engineer of Europe, believed he had found the principle that would allow him to eliminate all human labor. But his initial experiment killed him before the secret was discovered. Continue reading The Revolt of the Machines→
Avendo udito Socrate adulare il talento di Eutidemo e sapendo che costui voleva dedicarsi alla politica, cercò l’occasione propizia per incontrarsi con lui e, vedendolo entrare nella bottega di un bottaio, entrò e l’abbordò con le seguenti parole:
— È vero, caro Eutidemo, che hai letto e collezionato molte opere scritte da uomini che passano per savi?
— È vero, Socrate. Ed ogni giorno continuo a studiare e collezionare tali opere, già che sono per me un tesoro che non finirò mai d’arricchire.
