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Romanian Military Thinking ~ 4/2007
Cioran used to say, referring to the German people, that the Germans
are a didactic nation. What kind of a nation are we, the Romanians,
General ?
We ? We are not one generation, but generations of sacrifice. The term is already
in use. There is a saying: paper can bear anything. And this saying can be easily adapted
to the Romanian people: the Romanians can bear anything. We are the generation that
experiments torment. And intrinsic, systemic terrorism. But also a generation of patient
intelligence, one of people who are inclined to shelter, chaotically or whatever, all
kind of profiteers, from our area or from other parts of the world – from dictators to
errand boys, from traitors to scandalmongers, from cunning people to hooligans, from
seekers in falling stars to civilisation profaners –, without ever putting an end to it or
being too much disturbed by the fact that some of us are robbed by racketeers, while
others, sick pensioners, must line up in front of all sort of desks in public institutions –
and can even have a heart attack and die there, in the crowd – in order to pay their state
taxes. We are a nation of peasants, run off from their homes and abandoned in Europe’
stubbles which lack energy and horizons … Maybe we will bear fruit someday, just as
the good man and the ripe tree …
My father taught me that one could find God not by waiting for Him,
but looking for Him. And we have been looking for Him indeed !
What would God do without us, without our searches, without our
expectations ?
Exactly what we would do without His searches, without His word, without the
faith in Him, without conceiving, in our thought and in our soul, the idea of Him, of the
greatness of His power, from which our power derives, the power of all of us and of
each of us. If we were not looking for Him, he would re-teach us to look for Him, if we
were lost, He would show us the way, if we forgot, He would remind us, if we did not
know, He would teach us … He is, in fact, not only our everyday life, but the Absolute
Idea itself …
François Mitterrand said that there could not be freedom without
the organisation of freedom. I confess, I am rather afraid of unorganised
freedom, I feel as if my own freedom were jeopardised. How far can
we let unorganised freedom go ?
The concept of freedom, in the human society, has dozens, maybe hundreds
of meanings. Hegel called it understood necessity, an etymological dictionary, one of many,
defined it as the state of one person or of one people suffering from no constraints,
obedience, servitude exerted by another person, a tyrannical or a foreign power. Moreover,
freedom can be defined as the state of one person who is neither prisoner nor dependent
on someone. Freedom can be positively defined as the autonomy or spontaneity