Death to the System! (With the strength of ideas...)

By Andrea Mele

The English translation of the Italian book ”Morte al Sistema! (Con la forza delle idee..)”.
“Death to the System! (With the strength of the ideas…)” overturns the current western civilization paradigm thanks to a fierce and incontrovertible criticism of the current European monetary system and Christian theological system (in particular the Catholic one). Thanks to the innovative ideas underlying the reinterpretation of the sacred texts, it takes the reader into a journey whose aim is to reconcile faith and reason. Incredibly, many of the questions that troubled theologians for centuries will find answer here.
In the second part of the book the author explains very clearly and with reference to real-word figures, what’s wrong in the current economic system, ruled by plutocracy, and what can be done to change it. A must for anyone who wants to see the world from a new perspective.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrea Mele
• Release date: Jan 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9788827543696

Book preview

Appendix

Ode to ideas

Sparks of beings!

Dawn of thoughts!

Sons of matter!

Impulses of energy!

Ideas exist,

are born, evolve, survive,

to the sentient individual

as if they are immortals.

Deciduous as leafs,

a book they seek.

Right or wrong,

free or deterministic,

numerous they crowd.

Unknown is the origin.

Cause and effect,

or simple indetermination?

It’s like

a mountain could

live, move, think

and finally ask itself

Who am I?

What’s my functioning?

Is there a God?

Introduction

Writing a book that exposes new or largely unknown ideas could be as much stimulating as challenging and leaves me a lot to think about.

Will I be able to make the readers think they have in their hands a very special book? Will I be able to transfer my ideas without being misunderstood? I really hope this is the case. I’m a firm believer in the strength of the ideas. Ideas are one of the most mysterious and powerful things in the universe. They come to life in the human brain at molecular level and are nothing else than a series of electrical impulses, not very different from those of electronic circuits. We’re made of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, as the water, the wine and in general the food we eat but the atoms of our brain can do something more than the rivers, a bottle of Chianti or a dessert: they think, they ask questions about their own existence, on their functioning, on the existence of a God.

Like a woodworm haunts a piece of furniture, our intellect digs over and over inside our mind, explores the labyrinths of our beliefs, meets the walls of our traditions and prejudices and claims its rightful way over them. Even if the Pope himself declares that the sun goes around the earth and not vice versa, our brave intellectual woodworm won’t be stopped: in the conflict between tradition and science, reason and false beliefs, there’s only a possible winner because it’s not in the human nature to comfortably live over the centuries in a world that denies the truth, that treasures it’s paradigm in a building with a basement made of clay. The intellectual woodworm will dig inside our certainties planting the seeds of doubt. Sooner or later the doubt will pave the way to a new truth, different from the previous and more suited to the new historical context, reasonable for the millions of beings that live in that era. Perhaps it’s won’t be the final truth, perhaps in the future there will be a new change of paradigm: who cares? We live in the present, we live according to our beliefs. Yes indeed, the strength of ideas can change the world, can make the man land on the moon, bury us all in the coffin of a creeping tyranny, terrify us with the menace of a nuclear world war or blandish us with the dream of a hyper technological future inhabited by human beings culturally evolved where the biggest social problems of our era have disappeared. Ideas can be similar to a virus. They mutate in the brain of a single man and infect anybody who comes into contact with them and their virulence is more powerful as much as greater is the quality of the last mutation. Their propagation speed is extremely high in the modern era, thanks to the moderns means of mass communication. In the event that such ideas are particularly brilliant, it is possible to see their effects in a very short time on the millions of arms, eyes, mouths that will work, see and talk so that these thoughts that are born in the mind of a single or few men will become an asset for the entire humanity. In this book I’ll tell mines. Even if some of them are not brand new, and I’m referring in particular to the second part of the book, I know for sure through direct evidence that they are largely unknown. I really hope they will give a big boost to a global change: the future will be as our ideas will be able to shape it.

The book is divided in two parts and deals with two big topics: the Christian religion and the global economic system.

Excluding the science, I can’t think about other two fields of human knowledge that, together, could revolutionize with the same power the dynamics of our society and the quality of our lives. Don’t you think the same, reader?

Well, the ideas I’m about to outline belong exactly to these two fields and they are the result of an intellectual and spiritual journey that I began since I was a boy.

My sincere and most fervent hope is that they will encourage you not to accept the world for what it is and to find inside yourself the determination, the courage and the right grounds to change it and to constantly think how to improve yourself and the society you belong to. During the writing of this book I always kept in mind that the reader comes first. I tried to put my ideas on the table in the most riveting and interesting way as possible, to stimulate the reader and to avoid annoying him.

I’m not comfortable with the baroque expressions of some philosophers, although my thought is far from being trivial. Even if I often take for granted many of my statements, please bear in mind that you’ll find thinkers of various kind that wrote tons of papers about them. A good idea, however, it’s not an idea that can’t be challenged but one that survives overtime to the opposition. The Darwinian principle is applicable also to ideas, scientific theories and many other creations of the human intellect. Normally, the most evolved and suited to the current historical context ideas become dominant, except if the ruling elite finds them inconvenient and has the strength and capability to hinder them endlessly (just in case you think that in the 21th century this cannot happen, you’ll understand you’re wrong when you’ll have finished the reading of the book). Should I be successful in my final goal then the reader, after finishing the book, will sense the need to go back to read again some parts and those will result even more clear and placed in a world view whose canvas is painted page after page. Should my success overcome any reasonable expectation then this book will be handed down to posterity, but the reading will be disappointing for them.

What’s special and original about this book? they’ll say. My dear posterity, the world was different a long time ago. Men did not wear the glasses that bring into focus the things that are familiar to you and that from your point of view belong to the past history.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts reduced to paper are generally nothing more than the footprints of a man walking in the sand. It is true that we see the path he has taken; but to know what he saw on the way, we must use our own eyes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Note: The Bible version used in this book is the World English Bible (WEB), updated at end of November 2017.

The truth will set you free.

If God exists he created us free, in his image, in his likeness. Freedom is the precondition of any moral choice and obviously nobody would deserve any merit for a good action if he couldn’t consciously choose to refrain from it. Nowadays almost all the physicians are inclined to think that the world is not completely tied to deterministic laws [1] but even if the scientific world, united, would affirm that the choices operated by the living creatures, and in particular by the sentient beings, are not bond to deterministic laws, we should in any case deal with the fact that God is omniscient. Can a future event be considered indefinite when there’s an external observer, our omniscient God, that knows in advance it’s realization?

Luke 22,33-34 – He said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death! He said, I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times.

Omniscience and free will seem to irredeemably clash against each other and the only logic conclusion is to assume the existence of a great divine design that involves each human being and more generally any creature of the universe.

If this is the case how could the Almighty condemn us or reward us for something we were merely destined to do in accordance with his will? The logic suggests that, being the conclusion very awkward, either the existence of God is a badly designed fairy tale or there is an alternative explanation. Because my faith is firm, in my quest for the truth I presupposed that a rational, not dogmatic explanation to the contemporary coexistence of the free will of human beings and the omniscience of God had to exist. A dogma is an enemy of the human reason because it implies the existence of something that cannot be understood and that is why, when I deal with one of them, I work on its removal with great pleasure. I say that a dogma is also an enemy of the faith because faith and reason are able and have to merge each other and I will show you how.

Marco 4,21-23: He said to them, Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand? For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light. If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.

If logic doesn’t deceive If I want to demonstrate that the omniscience of God and the free will are not against each other then I have to demonstrate that conditions exist for which all the future events, undetermined for the creatures of God, maintain their status of indeterminacy even in the presence of an omniscient external observer, as God is, who knows their realization.

It comes to me Einstein’s famous remark: God does not play dice with the universe. What I want to demonstrate, in simple terms, is that: Man plays dice, God knows what will be the result but he never planned which one had to be.

It’s thanks to Einstein’s theory of relativity that science can solve our theological paradox. The theory of relativity affirms, among all other things, that time and space are relative dimensions, they are different for two observers that move themselves at different speeds. Without going into detail about Einstein’s theory, that is supported by a huge quantity of experimental evidence, it says that for an observer that is moving very near to the speed of light time would slow down, with respect to a fixed observer, as if it was almost stopped. Try to imagine to set out on a journey, travelling very near to the speed of light, from here to the boundaries of our universe. For an external fixed observer you will need billions of years to end your journey but for you only few hours, or minutes, or seconds, depending on your degree of proximity to speed of light, would have passed. The space you would see around you, at that speed, would be as well as different and would seem to almost collapse on itself. Einstein’s theory says that it’s impossible for anything that has a mass to be accelerated up to exactly the speed of light because that would require an infinite quantity of energy to be achieved, as the mass of the accelerated particle would increase exponentially while approaching the speed of light. We are not interested, here and now, to explore the other recent theories of physics. It’s sufficient to bear in mind the concepts that have been just outlined and that they are scientific truths having huge experimental evidence backing them up. Now try to imagine that you suddenly cease to be a being composed of mere matter. Try to imagine to be the vibrating energy of the universe, becoming yourself the asymptote of the relativity equations about time and space. From your point of view time and space would cease to exist: a single moment would be like an eternity and a point in space would be like the whole of it.

Exodus 3,14: God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM, and he said, You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’

As you can guess from this excerpt of the Bible, you would see the universe from the point of view of God. You would be in every place and every time, trapped in an eternal moment, being present everywhere. Coming back to our dice game I can say that if and only if God would live in such condition of eternal present he could be a passive spectator of the natural flow of events, being contemporary omniscient. Indeed, if God wouldn’t be present in every time and everywhere at the same time, maintaining his omniscience, it would imply that his omniscience derives from the perfect knowledge of the