While in Spain we are anxiously playing on the edge with democracy, Pope Leo XIV has identified the great flaw on which 21st-century democracies, including the Spanish one, are based: guaranteeing life projects through work and the social question, a red thread that connects the old world of Leo XIII with the new one of Leo XIV. Continuous, eternal times and at the same time very present, as well as a social conflict that, far from being resolved, will increase. Dedicate an afternoon to reading Magnifica humanitas and you will see how work is what gives meaning to our lives. That is the truth, in the words of the Holy Father, who has ordered this complex world with an encyclical on which the new political philosophy we are eagerly awaiting will be built to lay the foundations for the future. For now, the Pope has revealed to his own the great philosophical void and has generated the need for a response to the galloping wave of authoritarianism, which rides on the back of unrest and artificial intelligence (AI). Authoritarianism gains ground due to the absence of the most powerful force: human intelligence (HI).
The Rerum novarum of Leo XIII was preceded by the great philosophical acceleration of Karl Marx, the first Internationals of unrest, and the great social changes revolving around work. The New Things of Leo XIV, however, is not preceded by any philosophical, doctrinal, or social revolution. In fact, the Pope has not come to intellectually compete with Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel, to give a minor example, but to illuminate the great tactical, strategic, and historical void left by globalization. “Almost blindly, markets were trusted with the capacity to produce welfare, democracy, and stability, while in reality, globalization has not automatically generated unity and peace.” The spirit of the century, in two sentences.
Dedicate an afternoon to reading ‘Magnifica humanitas’ and you will see how work is what gives meaning to life
This void has been unsuccessfully attempted to be filled by the dark enlightenment and many other daring thinkers in Spain, but that void remains present as a great black hole that keeps expanding, because the philosophy of these authoritarian apologists is contingent, chicken-like, and shows itself incapable of producing a new framework of meaning that orders the society of tomorrow by bringing the future into the present. Especially in Spain. This dark philosophy has therefore served as a figurehead for these two years of the Queens boy, Donald Trump, to justify the new Far West of the AI masters. Pure fog until Leo XIV has drawn the trench. The pope from Chicago is agonizing, he assumes the conflict and encourages us to institutional and social response, as Leo XIII did with his social doctrine against the abuses of Rockefeller or Carnegie. Otherwise, why would one come to sit in the fisherman’s chair? The secularity of President Pedro Sánchez has instantly grasped the state of the era, that is anatomy, and the technically Christian-democratic president Salvador Illa feels it, it comes as standard.
The Pope arrives in Spain at the best moment, and his mass could work the miracle: that the authoritarians do not reach the Council of Ministers of Spain. The visit of Pope Leo XIV will refer us to the plurality of identities of our country, to that Madrid DF that could cease to be DF to become the plural capital of a plurinational state in the south of the EU, which is the hallmark and enamel of the transversal, plurinational, and peripheral majority of the Congress, before which the Holy Father will give a speech for posterity next Monday the 8th. A non-confessional Congress with Christian roots, because that is Spain, a country you don’t consume in a day.
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Today is June 1st and it marks eight years since Sánchez was proclaimed president after the victory of the first motion of no confidence in our history, which I led. That was a miracle. I feel it can be achieved again. He was the first president of Spanish democracy to dispense with religious symbols at his inauguration. All inside with faith within. There was magic. As today, the day of Saint Justin Martyr was celebrated, the great apologist of the Church. Beaten, he defended Christians before the Roman authorities against false accusations. Establishing the first bridge between faith and reason. Leo XIV arrives. The spirit of 2018 returns. The gods of politics listen to us and analyze. And in 2027 they will cast their dice.
Next week
Human intelligence
Thiel went to Rome to point out the Antichrist, but Pedro’s magisterium is more powerful. There will be AI and social changes, but also hope and democratic coexistence thanks to the strength of HI. Do not doubt it, because the Church of Rome has said no to the heralds of the apocalypse. It is about philosophically and strategically grounding Prevost’s great ethical reflection. We need new social organizations that, in perfect dialogue with First Rome, will channel unrest under the union of faith and reason, the new political space of our time.
Hawkeye
The challenge
Facing AI with ministries, councils, or specific laws is flying low, like authoritarianisms. It is not about misinformation, investments, or public policies, because when democracy is confined only to this matrix, unrest seeks new elites, the authoritarian ones, in the absence of new social organizations to channel it. It is about hope and democracy. Faith and reason. A northern oak like Unai Sordo also senses it. Today he has an event about the papal encyclical at the Pablo VI Foundation. The gods of politics show their teeth.
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