In 1915, Albert Einstein sensed the existence of gravitational waves, which were observed for the first time exactly one hundred years later. In 2015, the theoretical physique Carlo Rovelli used beautiful words to describe them. I go by heart:

The light takes 8 minutes to get from the sun to us. If the sun died in this moment, nothing would happen in the next 8 minutes on earth. During the 8 minutes, something must travel in the cosmos with the information that the sun no longer exists: this ‘something’ is a gravitational wave, the rapid propagation of a minute deformation of the space.

Here you are. Listening to the words of Antonio Scuratthe (here) At the event for Europe in Rome, the temporal limbo described by Rovelli returned to me. It almost seems that the writer spoke right in the 8 minutes preceding the arrival of the gravitational tsunami, bearing the information that the world hypocritical by him idealized no longer exists.

That world existed only in the artificial bubble of the European Union and NATO, two supranational institutions that have acquired over the years “Huge shares of power no longer controlled in the democratic sense” (cit Giulio Tremonti, about the EU after the Lisbon Treaty).

We Europeans have self-essential in that bubble, unaware of the relationship due to the effect of foreign policy exercised by the Atlantic alliance, and deluded like many Buddha-Wannabe that they have become the most pure and innocent of creation.

Antonio Scurati concluded his intervention with a cathartic phrase: “Democracy is always a struggle for democracy”. Flagful applause accepted the sublime motto, but 8 minutes later some of us began to feel in the mouth the unequivocal flavor of the supercazzola.