DEAR COUSINS FROM OVER THE ALPE, THIS BEING SO, VERY SIMPLY, GIVE US BACK THE MICA

I do not tear my clothes in the name of sacrilege, this is not what this is about. I tear my clothes because of abortion included in the Constitution. Terrible. In this case, let's keep our clothes on, despite the heat, and let's ask ourselves: what does the carnival have to do with the Olympics??

— Actuality —

Author
Anna Monia Alfieri, I.M.
Knight of the Italian Republic

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Basically that's what I thought, when I saw, during the inauguration ceremony of the Olympics, the wagon with the parody, let's call it, of Leonardo's Last Supper (cf.. Future, WHO e WHO).

I don't tear my clothes in the name of sacrilege, this is not what this is about. I tear my clothes because of abortion included in the French Constitution. Terrible. In this case, let's keep our clothes on, despite the heat, and let's ask ourselves: what does the carnival have to do with the Olympics?, (c)it is useful?

The aim was to reiterate the secular character of the State? Secularism does not mean bad taste or desecration of culture. I think it was a bad page in the history of the Olympics and of France, of Western culture in general, also given the almost general silence. After all, everyone, I stand corrected, almost everyone — because those who are not aligned with the dominant culture must remain silent, under penalty of being accused of being obscurantist - they have the right to have their say, regardless of the form which is always substance.

Yet another consideration, this, I admit, sweaty, after all, I also belong to the category: seeing those images I thought of Charlemagne, I thought of the pages of Bossuet, so much loved by Manzoni, I thought of Saint Therese of Lisieux, I thought of Maritain, so appreciated by Saint Paul VI. Ma, above all, I thought of the Lourdes cave which still attracts pilgrims from all over the world and which remains a sign of contradiction for everyone's intelligence, even lay people, the honest ones, it's obvious.

Dear young people, reflect and reject bad taste, ignorance and contempt of the true culture that, to be such, it is the fruit of free and honest hearts and minds. We who have inherited so much beauty have the task of safeguarding and respecting it. If we are not capable of it, let's give it to others to do it. So, give us back the Mona Lisa!

Milan, 1 August 2024

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