We often talk about "context" referring to the social, work or cultural context. But there is a deeper and more decisive context: that of life itself, its immutable laws, the unwritten pact between the individual and existence. This is the true ground on which the game of survival and meaning is played.
I have spent years observing, studying and living outside national borders, and what I have understood is that most people live in an illusory context, built by the institutional system – the state, economic, educational – which has a precise objective: to maintain an order useful to a few, not to enlighten consciences. The true context, instead, is the natural and humanitarian one, what I call divine justice: not a reward or punishment from above, but the law of cause and effect applied to human conduct. It is justice to which, willingly or unwillingly, we account through the consequences of our actions on our lives and those of others.
"If you want to become free, you must become a slave to philosophy." – Seneca
This quote is not an invitation to academia, but a practical warning: only the knowledge of the rules of the game of life makes us free. And what are these rules? You won't find them in civil codes or success manuals.
You find them by observing the functioning of human nature and the world.
The Great Deception: Mistaking the System for Reality
The institutional system we are immersed in – school, work, mass media, politics – is a construct. A powerful and pervasive construct, but still a simulation of reality. It teaches us to be citizens of a State, consumers of a market, followers of an organized religion. It systematically distances us from asking ourselves a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being? What does it mean to live in accordance with our most authentic nature?
The masses, as I often say, are destined to meet the fate of the mouse in a labyrinth that they do not understand. Not out of cruelty, but for a simple law of nature: what is against nature wears down and succumbs. We live in an era of collective self-harm because we have internalized a wrong education. We have been taught to fight for things that don't matter, neglecting the only fight that counts: the fight for awareness.
The Next Threshold: Selection by Self-Elimination
Here my thesis becomes strong on an observation that many will find startling, but which the data of history and current events support: we are entering a phase of drastic selection.
Not a selection imposed by a dictator, but an organic and inexorable process.
- Those who insist on living in an illusory context, ignoring the laws of real life (respect, responsibility, contribution, inner truth), will increasingly find themselves in conditions of suffering, limitation, and ultimately, self-elimination.
- Those who, instead, recognize and align themselves with the real context – learning to be net contributors to humanity and the ecosystem – will not only survive but flourish.
The so-called "reset" or "universal flood" of the 21st century that many speak of is not a divine punishment. It is the mathematical consequence of billions of people living in dissonance with the real context. The institutional system, now on the verge of collapse, will increasingly tighten its grip (with laws, controls, limitations on freedoms) precisely to accelerate this process of separation. Your home will become your prison only if, in your mind, you have accepted that the perimeter of your walls is the horizon of your world.
The Bible as a Manual for Context (Not as Dogma)
When I say that the Bible is a fundamental book, I often elicit predictable reactions. But I'm not talking about the Bible institutionalized by religion. I'm talking about the Bible as a philosophical code written by men who understood the real context.
Tell, in symbolic language, the eternal dynamics between those who build (the "contributors") and those who destroy (the "harmful"), between those who seek the light of knowledge and those who prefer the comfortable darkness of ignorance.
Jesus was not a magical "savior." He was a philosopher who taught how to live. His message was a manual for getting out of the illusory context of Roman and religious power of the time and returning to the real one of love, truth, and personal responsibility. The same principle applies today.
Questions That Shake the Foundations
If my theses have a grain of truth, then we must ask ourselves uncomfortable questions:
- How much of your life is spent obeying the rules of the illusory system (debts, status, pre-established career) and how much is spent cultivating your understanding of the real context (who are you, what is your unique contribution, how do you live in harmony with others and nature)?
- Are you grateful when someone challenges your certainties, showing you a broader horizon, or do you get angry because it threatens the fragile identity that the system has given you?
- Are you educating yourself and your children to be "contributors" or "consumers"? To be rare, precious, autonomous in thought, or to be replaceable cogs in the machine?
The Way Out: Becoming Students of Life
Salvation is not collective. It is personal.
Go through a radical choice: stop being a subject of the system and become a student/applicator of the laws of life.
- Learn to distinguish the noise of the world (news, opinions, trends) from the voice of your conscience and the evidence of natural facts.
- Always seek contribution. In every action, ask yourself: am I building or destroying? Am I adding value or subtracting it?
- Rediscover love in its broadest sense: not romantic feeling, but a cohesive and creative force. Love for truth, for growth, for others understood as part of the same humanity to which you are responsible.
The real context is ruthless because it is just. It makes no concessions. But it is also merciful because it offers everyone the map to navigate it: practical philosophy, observation, the courage to think with your own head. That map is inside you. It's up to you to decide whether to continue wandering in the labyrinth of the system, or to start walking in the light of the stars that have always guided the true navigators of existence.