A fundamental and operative datum among systems and society, is the free and legal schizophrenia within society. It is schizophrenia in the rights of a person with civic and institutional connections. In many international psychology congresses (Mexico 2004, Buenos Aires 2005) people talk openly about non-therapeutic intervention on schizoids, which once would have caused damage to the freedom of expression of the individual. In fact, law, freedom, democracy, autonomy, local ideological politics of party and trade unions, manifestations of many kinds, allow arbitrary will outside the general society rule – an arbitrary will that in fact is subjective pathology and endemic pollution of respect and defence of common interest. Even if the contemporary democracy is the fact-right of contradictions, it is evident that we have lost the distinction among generic and pathology. Therefore, a powerful microschizophrenia has increased in institutions, universities, and media. All of this then ends in exigencies and dialectics of power, carrying out any kind of extremism. Anarchy can be utopia, imaginary, or opposition. But society schizophrenia is already a suicidal obsession.
Lacking a single positivism-based criterion, everybody in society accuses the absence of values. That means lack of unitary positions and, therefore, tolerance of whatever. As a consequence, today sociology as a science is finished.
The most attentive scholars are already aware of this conclusion, and among them there is the temptation to re-establish some religious references in the social sciences. Or better, many of those who subjectively are religious lack a positivist capacity to perform science. They do not know how to distinguish the various and autonomous positions of the religious, the sacred, and the positive.
From Italy, exactly from Venice, Umberto Veronesi, a famous cancerologist and Minister is coordinating a round table of specialists from many disciplines: medicine, theology, mathematics, urbanism, sociology, philosophy etc., in order to face and discuss the general problems concerning us. The fundamental crisis is the lack of, or the uncertainty of coordinating principles for society and the sciences. In 2006, this project intends to formalize in Brussels a “High Chamber”, i.e. a mini-parliament of people with wisdom, as a supporting criterion for the many institutions.
My thesis is the following; It is not possible to establish values if operators use old rationality stereotypes, which are already dissociated from the reflection of reality. Even the many-sided syncretism of globalization is not able to understand the function unity for various phenomenologies. The medium term always lacks, which can legitimize the grasp and composition of reality.
Antonio Meneghetti
