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Against the Robots

Emmanuel Di Rossetti’s travel diary

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July 25, 2013

Yeats on human life

"When I think of all the books I have read," Yeats said, "all the wise words I have heard, all the anguish I have caused...".

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Emmanuel L. Di Rossetti was a journalist for many years. He served as an officer in the French Army's 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment. He also worked in the luxury goods industry. He is now a small business owner. This travelogue is the fruit of his reflections on journalism, literature, and the Catholic religion, among other things. It is placed under the benevolent and insightful authority of Georges Bernanos and his essay "France Against the Robots.".

We understand absolutely nothing about modern civilization if we do not first admit that it is a universal conspiracy against all forms of inner life.

France Against the Robots (1946). Georges Bernanos

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Why I write
A simple phrase is enough to shake one's inner life: "Why do I write?" A certainty takes shape, paradoxical and burning: writing is pointless, and perhaps that is precisely why we write. Writing becomes a place...
What is the purpose of tradition?
Tradition demands constant conversion. It's no easy task! Tradition requires a perpetual effort. And even the most important effort of all: that of not forgetting...
The froth of lives
Can we still take refuge in the inner life, behave as rebels against this world that loves nothing but the external and its procession of emotions pushed to their paroxysm and that warps lives to make them all similar and ghostly.
The family's tasks
Why do we think it's easy to have a family? We think it's easy what is natural. Yet, the sense of what is natural has evaporated by forgetting its law. So it is with love. Love is born of the law, it dies when we trample it...
The gold digger
One day, his only desire, he fulfilled it effortlessly each day. He would get up and mentally count the time it took him to do it. He counted the time as if he controlled it, while he...
Social gathering at the Vatican
It's always a surprise to discover, as this morning, an interview with someone, whether well-known or not, but representative of our time, admitting that their meeting with Pope Francis was one of the most significant moments of their life, yet drawing no action from it. As if this encounter were destined to be just another moment in the ocean of memories.
Sundays
Is it Sunday? It's Sunday! Breathing in the dawning day as if speaking to no one in particular, savoring a hearty breakfast, it's a day of celebration, let's not forget it, or rather, let's remember it. Getting ready for a big day, the big day! Listening to a...

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