San Pedro is the place that embraces itself, with the colonnade of Bernini designed to inspire that feeling. Saturday welcomed in the arms To the great protagonists and the great ideas of the political war that shakes the world. They were the leader of the national team such as Trump, Milei, Orbán or Meloni, who skillfully push resentment and hatred and then hurry them. And leader in the antipodes, such as Lula, Macron, Starmer or Von der Leyen, who treat, with growing difficulties, to build alternative narratives. Before them the coffin of Pope Francis was lying. Her policy, original and full of nuances, deserves to be studied with a view to that cultural war.
There is no doubt that Bergoglio was a bulwark of the opposition in front of the Nationalpopulism to the extent that two of its main political positions – support for immigrants and the defense of the environment – were open unlike the Ultra -dreighist program. It was also because he did not avoid the conflict with them. His attack remains in the Annals Against the brutal migratory plans of Trump (“a misfortune”).
At the same time, Francisco made a pronounced decisions and words that have a certain populist aroma. The gesture so many times mentioned not to reside in the noble part of the Vatican is at the same time a beautiful declaration of intentions consistent with San Francisco de Asís and a rhetorical message starting from the palace that recalls some populist strategies that seek in a very scenic way and in a somewhat often agglutinated way the consensus before correcting Elop. His universalism, on the other hand, had serious limits, giving up any serious progress of the position of women in the Church.
But perhaps there is another dimension of Francisco’s action that deserves to be highlighted. And this, yes, can be stimulating for the fight against Nationalpopulism supported by new technologies. To understand it, you must first reflect on what this national is.
This is a project that knew how to take advantage much before and much better than its opponents of new technologies to understand the states of opinion, unleash their worst instinct and then use them politically. Multiple chaos engineers, according to the beautiful definition of Giuliano da Empoli, dedicated themselves for a long time for a long time, from Gianroberto Casalegio (Guru of the five -star Movement) to Arthur Finkelstein (support for Orbán, Netanyahu), from Steve Bannon to Cambridge Analytica (Brexit). The action of these chaos engineers, in combination with qualified slaughter, formed a formidable weapon of political attack. Before her, the others continue in Ri -que, without finding truly capable formulas or to deactivate the insiduses or to build clearly winning political alternatives.
And this is where he is interested in studying Francisco. Because although although contemporary political struggle is inconceivable without an effective domain of digital technological tools, it is likely that the central space of the battle is likely to be more necessary. This, perhaps, be humanism. Humanistic architects must be against chaos engineers.
Bergoglio undoubtedly had flashes of humanist upright. The simple choice of his name, that reference to that saint, after a pontificate like that of Ratzinger, turned on that light. Some characteristics of his dialectic, his body language, his closeness to people and, of course, his policy have also spread it.
This does not mean that it should be considered an unlawful model. It wasn’t. But he had reflections that could perhaps inspire the introduction of major humanism in the escape of the response to nationalist nationalists. Humanism in the face of algorithmic dehorithmic or outrageous human rights. We oppose human networks – like the Church – to digital ones. Agruni to Costanza – calls Gaza’s shepherd every day – with superficiality, inconstancy of modern time. We oppose the overwhelming national project of human contact, physicality, flat language, a complete and coherent understanding that the system has favored the upper and marginalized classes to others.
The engineers of chaos and demagogue have gained ground in the last five years. They understood how to launch successful attacks. Defense and contractor strategies are not yet refined. Perhaps, in addition to pearring for technological combat, it is good to be inspired by the ancient lessons of Rome, in the reasons for its history and distance – I know, ironic, often illuminating from the panoramic – of daily life, of speed. It could be well inspired by a pontiff who made mistakes, but has achieved interesting successes. Perhaps, the whole of San Pedro, where Miguel Ángel and Bernini have worked, reminds us that humanistic architects can be fine.
