Words are not just sounds or signs on a page. They are the bricks with which we build reality. Definitions are the root of knowledge, and everything depends on them: our productivity, our well-being, our very existence. Let's start with a concrete example, one that touches closely anyone who works in the world of work and economy: the definition of entrepreneur.
Go read what the State says, what the institutions say. You will find legal and fiscal definitions. The entrepreneur is the one who owns a business, a company. A company is a set of resources to be taxed. Period. Is this the truth? Or is it just a convenient reduction that serves to categorize, control, and ultimately exploit?
I propose a different definition, which I feel deeply true: a company is the activity through which man contributes in a significant way to the growth and development of society and the economy. The entrepreneur, therefore, is not an owner. He is an artist of value, a master who creates well-being. When I present this vision to real entrepreneurs, even those who have never heard it before, they nod. Why? Because people, when they reason, understand.
They feel the deepest truth, the one that goes beyond bureaucracy.
The problem is that many people consider small and medium-sized enterprises as resources to be exploited, instead of seeing them as incredibly powerful horses pulling a heavy cart, where the cart represents society. Winston Churchill
The way we see things determines how we act. If you see the entrepreneur as a contributor, you act as a contributor. If you see him as a potential tax evader, you treat him as such. Where does more value lie? In reducing such a crucial figure to a tax code, or in elevating it to a pillar of the community? The answer should be obvious, and yet the system prefers the first option. Why?
The System takes us to the stars. The System, understood as the set of accepted human and social dynamics, rewards those who conform to its superficial narrative. You have to "appear good", meaning being appreciated by humanity according to its distorted parameters. The secret, however, is to aim for the absolute maximum you can conceive for yourself. You will never reach it, but you will arrive infinitely higher than those who are content with mediocre goals. This applies to everything.
Let's take another fundamental role, even more basic than that of the entrepreneur: the parent. The common definition? The one who reproduces, who transmits genes. A biological, sterile definition. And what if we said that the parent is the greatest contributor to society?
The most valuable thing a human being can "produce" is another human being. Bringing a life into the world is not a private act. It is a global event. It is introducing into the world an entity that has the potential to contribute enormously to the common good or, conversely, to destroy it.
I pose you a difficult question: how many of those who become parents ask themselves, before conception, about their ability to create a contributing individual? How many consider parenthood from the point of view of social responsibility? The answer, we know, is: very few.
We are all born equal. A newborn is pure potential. It can become a neuroscientist, an honest craftsman, or a criminal. The difference is not in genes, but in education. The first and foremost responsible for this education are the parents. Us. Yet, most children are born to people who have no idea what it means to educate, what it means to live, how the world works. This is not a moral judgment. It is a tragic and documented observation.
The result is before our eyes: a society where the number of individuals who generate well-being is small, while a growing mass is harmful, dependent, in need of assistance. It is the paradox of demographic abundance and scarcity of value.
We are producing industrial quantities of humans, but we are not producing Humanity.
The heart of the problem is right there: wrong definitions. Most people live with distorted meanings in their heads. What does "freedom" mean? For many, it's doing what they want. What does "love" mean? For many, it's a fleeting feeling. What does "success" mean? Having money and followers. What does "being human" mean? We don't even know that.
The tragedy of humanity is not the lack of resources, but the ignorance about who we are, how the world works, what it means to live.
This ignorance is not an accident. It is systemic. And it is unacceptable. The problem is that the ignorant person, often, believes they know. It is the ego that blocks learning. How can you learn if you believe you are already prepared? We are surrounded by mediocrity that not only ignores the rules of the game of life, but gets indignant if someone tries to explain them to it.
Some, observing this unstoppable decline, have decided that the solution is to eliminate the mediocre. I'm not speculating. I'm talking about those currents of thought, those global plans that are increasingly talked about. The so-called Great Reset. What is its heart, according to my analysis? It is not a conspiracy fantasy. It is the ruthless logic consequence of humanity that has failed to give itself high definitions and live up to them.
If the majority is a burden, a danger, the "solution" for some becomes the reduction or control of that majority.
Can we stop it? Perhaps not as a whole. But we can save ourselves individually and as a small community of value. How? By doing the only thing that matters: learning what no one has ever taught us. We must move from a level of knowledge of 2-3 (on a scale of 1 to 10) to a level of 8-9. We must rewrite the definitions in our minds, starting from the foundations.
Do we want more entrepreneurs? Let's stop selling it as a shortcut to wealth. Entrepreneurship is a high form of life. Before studying balance sheets and marketing, study how the world works. Become a human excellence. Only human excellence can be a true creator of economic and social value.
This is why I record, write, speak. Not for fame or consensus. I do it because I was betrayed by the system in the most sacred thing: my parental profession. The judicial system has deprived me of my children. I made the mistake of reproducing with the wrong person, and I pay the price every day. But my children are not to blame. And even from afar, my duty is to try to guarantee them a better world. I can no longer educate them directly, but I can try to educate the context in which they will have to live.
Is it a drop in the ocean? Perhaps.
But if this drop is collected by other people who have a voice, who are courageous, it can spark an intellectual revolution. It takes courage to say these things. It takes courage to admit that we are ignorant. It takes courage to question ourselves.
To the young I say: your parents are your first hope. If they don't move, it's up to you to take the first step. Lay your foundations on solid definitions. Ask yourself: what does the word I am using really mean? What do I really want to say when I say "I want to be happy", "I want to be free", "I want to be successful"?
Your silence, your passive acceptance of imposed definitions, will condemn you to the life of a mouse in a cage that you don't even see the bars of. There is nothing more valuable than acting in the interest of humanity, because acting for humanity means, ultimately, acting for the highest and noblest version of yourself.
I try. It's all we can do. Goodbye.