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God spoke to him in a dream: “You live and will die in this prison so that a man I know of may see you a certain number of times and not forget you and place your figure and symbol in a poem which has its precise place in the scheme of the universe. You suffer captivity, but you will have given a word to the poem.”

[...] Years later, Dante was dying in Ravenna, as unjustified and as lonely as any other man. In a dream, God declared to him the secret purpose of his life and work; Dante, in wonderment, knew at last who and what he was and blessed the bitterness of his life. Tradition relates that, upon waking, he felt that he had received and lost an infinite thing, something that he would not be able to recuperate or even glimpse, for the machinery of the world, is much too complex for the simplicity of men.

Translated by J. E. I. Inferno, I, 32:: J. L. Borges

The Corrupt Society

The bench of the banking “business” + Dante’s’ question of free will and moral responsibility

Money exchangers developed facilities for exchanging local and foreign currency, operating in market squares, originally occupying benches, which were later replaced by tables (money-lenders “bank", “banque" (Old French “banc"), Italian “banca", from Late Latin “bancus").

The word “bankrupt" also stems from the same time, when money exchangers physically broke their lending tables when things went south, signifying that business was not merely suspended but visibly and unequivocally short-lived. It derives from “banca rotta" (bench + broken) from Latin “ruptus", the past participle of “rumpere" (to break).

Dante’s concern about the relationship between political and ecclesiastical authority was known in the third book of the Monarch [Mon. 3.16.7–9], exposing that power in the temporal earthly realm is neither derived from nor dependent on spiritual authority. A human being consists of soul and body, its nature partakes of both the corruptible and the incorruptible. Uniting two natures, human existence must necessarily be ordered to the goals of both these natures.

Today, usury is the practice of charging exorbitant amounts of interest on a loan, but in the Middle Ages, it was considered usury to charge any interest on a loan at all. The 7th Circle is concerned with various sins of violence. In this canto, Dante and Virgil enter an area reserved for sinners guilty of usury. The idea is to keep separated the branches of government with the banks and the church, to have each individual decide and care for their relationship to authority, value, and faith.

All the blind faith has made people less accountable, for they still trust institutions to take care of themselves. Now, reading about the collapse of banks in the paper is becoming more normal, but what is not normal is to accept that this is the way it should be…

REVOLT, now BITCOIN solves that “banking” problem

Dante criticized the misuse of power by the political leaders of his time, and he was exiled from his native Florence for his political beliefs; the Divine Comedy is a response to this event, employing allegorical figures to condemn the political and public figures, proposing a new form of government based on virtue.

The origin of the word corruption has to do with something gone stale, no longer pure, beyond accountability, bending morals, and driven by greed. In the Commedia many figures of great social responsibility dwell in Hell; the last 3 tiers of hell are the core of what has gone stale and crooked– heresy, fraud, violence, and betrayal.

A strong message that Dante conveys is a warning not to subdue secular authority in favor of religious authority because power, when left unchecked, often corrupts. Other themes are keeping obedience to outer authority, abandoning inner command to figures that portray leadership in realms of government and religion, and forgoing natural law by losing the common sense that could make a life lived meaningfully. If only one were like Dante after entering hell, and learning the importance of making a commitment, which is the first step towards social action.

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