We won’t get out of this crisis if we don’t become,” said Rouco, I thought he would talk about his home crisis (Vatileaks: power struggles, dark businesses… more old-fashioned theology, pederastia, etc. ). But no, Rouco was referring in particular to the financial, economic and political crisis that we are now experiencing in Europe. If you think about it, you may be right. This may have no remedy without a change of heart or mind.

There are many unexpected crises in life: job loss, relational conflicts, illnesses and deaths... However, those of us who have not suffered war at the same time, I do not believe that we have known in this part of Europe a socio-economic crisis as long and profound as the present one: more and more people in the jobless environment; the future of sons and daughters in the dark; those who have approached retirement age, in their calculations of timing and reward; those who have behind their backs and lose their value; the welfare society, the welfare cuts. Yes, the prosecutor asks for a sentence of between 4 and 9 years in prison for offering Barcina some sweet pastries a little gross. Or you'll be told that we're all guilty, because we've lived beyond our possibilities. And lenders distrust our solvency, in short, if we pay a higher interest rate, then they do trust. Do you understand it? Neither do I.

It cannot be denied that the crisis is real. But worse still, the discouraging apocalyptic atmosphere around it (shock doctrine! ): pessimism, insecurity, restlessness and malaise; political bankruptcy and straitjacket of blacks; inability and frivolity of some politicians... We are told that we are continuously on the verge of the abyss, near destruction and cataclysm. The euro and the euro area are about to disappear: perhaps tomorrow I will rush and today people with money bags to cross-border banks. And all of this by chance ... We felt so strong, so advanced and so democratic in this Europe! What legitimizes the state today when, unable to protect its subjects, it has become a leech to absorb blood?

I am not prepared to lose the joy of life at the orders of the stock exchange and the risk premium. It is true that we live hanging from many threads that we do not control and that these “invisible” thieves can make us victims of large theft without knowing why and how... But yet our life project and its quality is in our hands. Fear, pleasure and power are the three primary mechanisms of survival (The Master of the Heart, Annie Marquier, p. 42). Cap. ). Well, if we don't exceed that level, we have a party. If we work on a certain “conversion”, a deep spirituality unrelated to traditional religions (The soul of atheism, André Comte-Sponville; Towards a secular spirituality, Mariá Corbí), we can have a richer mental and psychological level, a higher human quality... and there we are not so vulnerable and weak to do what they want with us.

It is not a question, as eremita, of living each one immersed in their sweet inner life, because, among other things, has not the extreme egocentric individualism brought us to the situation we are living in? But the solidarity and struggle of many solid grassroots men and women can lead to a small revolution different from that which occurs according to extinct ideologies.