Now that you talk about ideologies and ideas, I have sometimes thought that ideas could be false even though I have strong reasons to believe in, sometimes it just seems unreal, just an invention, a construct. But then I look at the facts, and I realize that it is impossible for it to be false. Reasons and reality say one thing, the problem is often the lack of self-confidence, which makes us believe more in what others say or think, or in the reasons of others, than in our own reasons.

If the ideas did not exist, the human would have wandered like a madman throughout history, believing in things that don't exist, and acting on the basis of imaginary chimeras. Madness can be like insomnia. But it is not true. The fact that today we speak of ideologies, and not of the truth, is not because we have refuted the existence of a truth, but rather it is born of not trusting ourselves, and to believe that the things we think are only our invention, so we look for confirmation in others.

And I don't criticize it, it is certainly necessary, nowadays it is, however, it is and will continue to be so long as people don't fully trust themselves. When we trust in ourselves, we can therefore trust our fellowmen.

Modern societies are divided, the right looks at the past and what has been lost, tradition, idealism, religion, morals, respect, etc., while the left looks to the future and what has been win, inclusion, integration, opening, etc. Arnold J. Toynbee, the British historian, said that the easiest way to see when a civilization is about to collapse, is when one part of the population thinks of the past, while the other in the future, and both forget about the present. This reminds me of the concept of Wu Wei, which should not only apply to individuals, but also to societies. Again it is a question of self-confidence, of trusting ourselves and therefore our fellowmen, breaking the dichotomy, and knowing that what corresponds now, is not worrying about the future or the past, but the present, and that whenever you trust yourself, there will be no need to worry about other times, because surely at other times you will take the right options, as long as you take the right options now, which are the ones to take. There will also be no need to worry about other circumstances, past or future, scarcity or abundance, nuclear wars or climate change, if the right decisions are made now.

The correct decisions are not a matter of philosophical depth either, really it is mere intuition, it only takes common sense, we, the people, always have the answers in us, this does not mean that we should be individualists or isolationists and not think about the others, surely there will be moments of doubt in which it will be necessary to go to others, however, and this is something that I have always said of modern society, it is a matter of communication.

Modern people tend to believe that by technology they are more connected, my opinion is (not totally, but) different, I believe that people are more connected by nature, and that when they acted, in the past, in a totally intuitive way, they synchronized with each other. Technology unites people on the one hand, because it makes them communicate verbally, but in turn, makes them doubt at times when such communication does not exist, this is because people falsely believe that they are separated, believe that there is a world profoundly external to them, which is only "true" as long as they believe that. The synchrony of society always exists, although in some moments it may be difficult to see it, and it is because, in spite of everything, society is always the same entity, the same and only essence if we can call it to become idealistic or religious, speaking of a collective mind. Although I don't speak of collectivism that would be the opposite, and it is not at all desirable to abandon technology either, which, right now, would be a gigantic mistake, I think.

Reality breaks such apparent dichotomies that don't really exist; individualism-collectivism, technology-nature, freedom-security, good-evil, reason-emotion, etc. Certainly it is necessary to use those words to refer to our day to day, but it is also true that everything that is of one nature also participates in the other. It is not contradictory, but complementary.

I think I have taken many turns to conclude in exactly the same, with different nuances and from a different angle of course, but ultimately, the same.