
Aldo Sterone delivers a monologue reacting to a recent knife attack in London and uses it to critique modern ‘scholastic’ dogmatism, societal/legal responses to terrorism, and Western collective intelligence. He contrasts sterile facts with emotionally energized interpretations, discusses the released attacker’s prior conviction and reoffending, and reflects on Islam, Islamism, and organizational stupidity in Western societies.
Questions this video answers
16 years in prison.
Two killed, twelve injured.
Approximately 25 years old; studied at Cambridge.
Hello, my friends, in the Middle Ages, there was a philosophical movement called the Scholastics. And in fact, one of the main characteristics of this movement was that there was a philosophy, there was a debate, there was a discussion, there was research, but at the same time they had imprinted on stone a certain number of dogmas. And it was forbidden, whatever the reflection one had, it was forbidden to go against these dogmas, to touch these dogmas. Uh, that was in the Middle Ages. But even today, we know in our circles a lot of people who feel, in a purely scholastic logic, for example, they start by saying, I'm right, okay, I'm right, you're wrong. Here are two untouchable dogmas, and from there they reflect. In fact, what is characteristic of the Scholastics is that they do not seem to advance towards a conclusion. In fact, they start from a conclusion. Every discussion starts from a conclusion that has already been established. And we beat around the bush to come back to that conclusion. Another one. I'll give you another one. Islam is a religion of peace and love. It is a religion of peace and love. And from there you can reason, you are free to speak, you can speak when you want, but from there you must necessarily go around the question and come back exactly to the main dogma which is untouchable. So we are returning to an extremely scolastic era which is characterized precisely by a certain number of dogmas. It's like I was going to say something enormous, but I prefer to keep quiet. But, ah, we live in an era where we are returning, we are sinking. That is perhaps the most appropriate term in this kind of logic. And the problem is that this kind of philosophy weakens the people who hold it and prevents them from moving forward on the most basic questions. Often, uh, let me give you another one. Uh, you know, we all live in the same environment, we all live in the same universe. We are surrounded by facts, right? If we look at the facts, we like facts. You know, we sometimes say, yes, this person seems disconnected from reality or disconnected from the facts. But in fact, the problem with facts is that they are relatively sterile. It is true that it is said that what is factual, what is factual on the physical level, isn't it on the level of manifestation is necessarily true on the level of energy or substance. But at the same time, it is not something that takes us very far. I know very few people who get excited when they see an Excel spreadsheet full of statistics. There are people who, in their everyday lives deal with issues that are presented in this type of spreadsheet. And I have rarely met anyone who tells me that it is something that excites me or that once they have finished their work, they look at it with nostalgia that does not exist. So we all live in the same factuality. We are all immersed in it.
We are.
We have day, night. We are born, we die, we fall ill. Our basic needs are the same from one country to another, from one era to another. I mean, the facts. As we live, the fundamental facts of our existence are the same. However, the fact has no value until it has been energized by an emotion, by an interpretation. That's what will really make it come alive. Because no one lives at the level of an Excel spreadsheet. So with the same facts, with the same basic facts, the same fundamental facts, we arrive at hundreds of religions, we arrive at hundreds of philosophies, ways of approaching life, absolutely and equally, uh, we can, uh. If someone comes from Mars, he could go and take a dozen humans at random, take a sample from a dozen places on Earth, bring it back home. He asks them questions. Uh, The Martians will have a hard time believing that these 12 humans were collected on the same planet. They will believe that it is this sample here. Each sample comes from a different planet. It's not possible because each one tells a different story, because there is a percentage in what each one tells, a percentage of facts, but also a percentage of energization that is linked to an emotion, an interpretation that has been added. And of course, depending on the person, we can have more or less emotions until we get to people who. Sometimes there is, let's say, suspicion.
Huh?
It's homeopathic. There is a homeopathic amount of reality, and everything else is interpretation and emotional energization of a certain number of things that are around them. So I was saying that in all this. In all this, the Earth. I don't know how many times throughout history the Earth has drunk on the blood of people who have died, who have been killed, or others who have killed in the name of an interpretation, in the name of one interpretation among others, of these sterile events or facts that surround us. And it is very difficult, it is very difficult for anyone today to justify that any interpretation of the events around us could be worth such an ultimate sacrifice as that of human life. In any case, that was the case. That was just the introduction, actually. There was an attack the day before yesterday in London where there was a terrorist, a proven terrorist, someone who originally wanted to plant bombs. He wanted to blow people up with bombs. And then he was arrested during his. During his plan. And then perhaps technically, he did not manage to go that far in the evil. So he said to himself, at the very least, right, at the very least, I'll take a knife. So he took two knives for that occasion. He taped one to his arm so he wouldn't lose it, I imagined, which proves that he is not completely devoid of reason, despite everything. And in fact, people were attacked at random. Well, I saw one of the victims, a young 25 year old, a brilliant man who studied at Cambridge, which is a very difficult university to get into. And so we see that society has lost by sacrificing a very brilliant member for the luxury of keeping a terrorist on the street, to give a terrorist a chance. There are two dogmas here that are clashing. There are two dogmas in reality. One is the dogma, the religious dogma that drives the terrorist, of course, but there is also the dogma that drives the judges, the dogma that drives this society. A society that will declare itself proud of having abolished the death penalty, when in fact it has not abolished it at all. She simply transferred the death penalty. Instead of it affecting criminals today, it was shared with society. So we didn't abolish the death penalty, we simply shared it. Because these terrorists, who in other times, here, in this country, would have been hanged, who in these times, in other countries, okay, in this country itself, in other times would have been hanged. And in this very time, in 2019, there are many countries, there are many countries for much less than what he did, right? He couldn't have saved his life. He would never have been released back into the streets here. The United Kingdom declares, as a society, we declare that we are prepared to suffer death, we are prepared to die so that criminals who are not even worth the union in terms of value can once again have the right to walk the streets. So he was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2012 for the failed attack, and he was released last year, right? And so he was banned from London normally, but he was given special permission to attend a rehabilitation workshop where he had to write lyrics. So he took advantage of this permission. He went to this workshop, armed himself with two knives. He killed two people, he injured 12, and he got shot. So that's the story of a. That's where we are. You know, there was a. There was a woman, an Algerian singer from Western Algeria, and she had written a song that was quite, quite, quite poignant. She was talking about herself. She said, she said, look how screwed up I am. Look how Crazy I've become. She said, the marbu writes and I pay him. The marbu writes, he writes texts for me and I pay him. In fact, she was a woman who was not doing well. She was a woman who had a lot of difficulties in life. And at a certain point, you know, when people feel bad, sometimes they are ready to do anything, anything that allows them to obtain hope, even if it is illusory or fleeting, they are ready to go for it. And so she went to the Marbu. He told her, yes, for money, I can write a kind of text from a spellbook that will turn the situation around. She gave him money and he started writing. And during that time she realized how low she had fallen. He writes and I pay him. And in fact, we are in a society today at the same level that releases assassins, that releases killers, that lets them roam the streets, and that says to itself, well, a good part of them are going to kill. Part of the party is going to kill, that's for sure. Uh, people from civil society, huh? And very respectable people, huh, who haven't killed anyone are going to end up in a morgue. But that's the fair price to pay for this luxury, huh? Because, you know, huh, Everything we want in life has a price, huh? So there are things. There are things that cost €5, things that cost €50,000, things that cost a million, right? And then there are things that cost human lives. There are things. There is this. It's the ultimate luxury. This is the kind of luxury that we won't even pay for with money. There's no money that could pay for it. This luxury is paid for with human blood. And this is the luxury that we are paying for in this society and in others too. I think that in France you are not far from an extremely similar situation. And so, in a scholastic logic, normally journalists, Journalists should have gone in search of someone else or similar, or at the very least a Muslim, preferably, who would have tried to block the. Who would have tried to block, right, the assassin, the killer. They haven't found him. So for the moment, because it's a classic, you know, because who is the first victim? The first victim is not the guy in the morgue. It's not his wife who is crying for him, it's not his children. The first victim is Islam, of course, because that's the logic we follow. The first victim is Islam, okay? Islam is a religion of peace and love. Those who kill in its name have not understood that. That requires the difficulty of this reasoning. It requires erasing 1400 years of history, right. It requires erasing centuries of conquest that involved millions of people, that turned the lives of millions of people upside down, that caused massacres, slavery, all that, cities that were wiped off the map. But there you have it. We are in this dogma, and the dogma is untouchable. And it must be observed in all circumstances. And all reasoning must not flow into the dog and must validate the document. So there you have it, my friends. It's not going to do anything. We are not going to change anything in depth. We are not going to change anything in depth. I saw in France that your Minister of the Interior said that Islamism is the enemy of Islam. That's nice. That's a good idea. That's exactly where the Muslim Brotherhood and other organizations are guiding you. It's just a matter of thinking that way. Anyway, I wonder if the west thinks. Honestly, I have the impression that it stopped thinking in 1945. From then on, its history was completely reversed. And today we are in a historical course of complete destruction. So we have this idea that to defend ourselves from Islamism, well, we have to Islamize. Let's build mosques, uh, let the Republic take the issue seriously, let it defend Islam, let it speak about Islam, let it make Islam known. And then one day you wake up in a caliphate, you will have understood that you have gone the wrong way. Well, there are people who understand it now, but we have to distinguish, don't we? We have to distinguish between individual intelligence and collective intelligence. You know, take Boeing for example. They sometimes just demolish things. Recently they practically opened up a Boeing 77 and there were no fatalities during tests. And yet each person is competent. Except that when we get to a complex system, the complex system itself has a personality, a soul, an attitude, a temperament. We can describe it practically by the same characteristics that we would use for a human being, intelligence or stupidity. And in fact, it is quite possible in complex organizations, like on the scale of a country, on the scale of a civilization, of a company, we can have people who are individually very competent, very knowledgeable, well intentioned. But we get, as an organization, right, we get an organization that is a double digit figure. And I think the west is at that stage. The west is at the stage of literally being eaten alive. That's, I think it should be said, it's, it's stupidity. But uh, I mean, with such stupidity, honestly, you don't even need to have enemies, you know, you don't even need enemies, you know, you become your own enemy. As an organization, of course, because the west individually, when you meet people in general, they all have more or less a fairly accurate reading of the situation. I'm not talking about the excerpts, but most people have a very, very clear and precise reading of the situation. But the west as a group, uh, it's one that happily goes to the slaughterhouse, uh, that says. Anyway, it's not all the people who work at the slaughterhouse who cut the hatch.
Huh? Okay. Huh.
You take the guy at the slaughterhouse who's the electrician who's repairing the machine, or the guy who's painting or whatever, or. He didn't, he didn't. He didn't directly kill himself. Anyway, I think I'll stop there before saying much more than I've already said. I had other ideas in mind, but I think I'll stop there for today. I'll come back another day. And thanks for watching. I hope you like the sound of this car. So, you know, I always get nervous when I arrive with a new car. Uh, this one isn't mine. It was lent to me by the insurance company. I could show you the outside sometime. Uh, but I just don't want it to happen again. That it was given to him by Israel or Iran, like we've seen in the past.
Okay.
It's just that my neighbor, he crashed my car, so the insurance company gave me one, that's all. It's not more complicated than that. Okay, I'll leave you and I'll be back in a few days or this weekend, depending on when I find the energy. This weekend? But the weekend is already over.
Okay.
See you soon, my friends. Mister.
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