Happy New Year to you all and all the best of luck to your families.
Let's start the year with optimism and joy and a few thoughts on our human condition.
At one point in his estate, Friedrich Nietzsche said that if an extraterrestrial being looked at the people of Earth, it would have to come to the conclusion that Earth was the planet of practitioners.
Nietzsche thus very clearly addressed what we all feel: each individual is under massive vertical tension and has to assert himself in the social, intellectual or economic game of forces. Wanting to improve oneself, being ambitious, these are human formative forces. Wanting to improve human qualities should not be suppressed, we must massively welcome and should promote personal ambition.
Human evolution is the engine of our civilization, the will to move mountains, to make the end the realistic possibility. It is an eminent idea, the primal principle of our existence.
When meritocratic forces prevail, we witness the fruits of our effortd. Take the beauty of Tuscan Renaissance culture, just, to take one example from the summits of human culture. This happy epoch is an example of the creative forces within us, the will that needs to be unleashed.
Translated into the ordinary practice of political action, this means standing up for free markets, sovereignty and private autonomy in order to get the engine of our civilization running faster again. We must once again stretch out our courage towards the divine spark, our genius, and not give up halfway.
With this in mind, I wish everyone every success for 2025.