Several dozen Israelite graves have been vandalized at the East Cemetery in Nice. These actions are intolerable and abhorrent, and the perpetrators bear moral responsibility before any legal penalty: to commit such an offense against the memory of the dead is an act of cowardice.
The culprits must be identified and brought to justice. Such violations of the dignity of a burial have no place in a community that considers itself civilized.
The families from Nice and the surrounding region who have seen the graves of their loved ones vandalized should be able to count on the solidarity of all.
What can be said about these acts which, besides being incomprehensible in their meaning, seem to be devoid of any strategy, confined to a totally dysfunctional intellectual mindset.
In a society where police are everywhere (both in their traditional physical form and through the widespread use of electronic technologies), is security, even that of the dead, nowhere to be found?
As Ovid said, the barbarians are everywhere and nowhere.
It is well-known that evil is more entertaining than good, and the ‘objectification’, which is nothing other than the abandonment of all values, resembles an act of voluntary blindness from a society that no longer knows how to form citizens who are simply free and equal.
Faced with this harmful prospect, we must stay the course because the Doifoirus (and there are many of them) are never prouder of their power than when their victims are in agony.
We must fight these Doifoirus, analyze the dysfunction of their neurons, explore the mysteries of their mad thoughts, map their schizophrenic brains without ever giving in to despair: Petrarch was probably right when he wrote in the “Familiares” “orbem terrarum, quo magis ambio, minus amo” (The more I travel, the less I love this world).
The reality of acts like the one we have just mentioned leads us to such a conclusion.
But we must react because even in the darkest moments, we have the duty to light the flame of hope and know that life is always worth living and, ultimately, good is always stronger than evil!
“Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything,” reminds us William Shakespeare.
