Against the Robots

The most illuminating example concerning human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ speak together, and Peter insists to his master that he believe his devotion is entirely sincere. Thus, Jesus tells him that before the rooster crows, he will have denied him three times. The first place from which every person speaks is this: their own weakness. Acknowledging each person's limitations, not always to resign oneself to them, but also to overcome them, compels us to reason from what we are, not from what we believe ourselves to be. Anyone who does not know their weaknesses, who forgets them, who does not take them into account, is out of touch with reality, as we have come to say nowadays. Out of touch with reality means that one is nourished by a pasture that is not one's own, that one rejects one's own pasture to find some other pasture that is better because it is different. Being rootless also means that the received statements could be obtained anywhere else in the world without any problem, as these statements are unrooted, translatable into any language, and exportable like a computer "framework." The objective is characterized by the desire to reach such a level of abstraction and uprootedness that the question itself becomes meaningless.