False progress, alienation and entertainment as the sole purpose: but in the name of what?

In addition to being a well-known linguist, Raffaele Simone is an inspired and gifted moralist, a critic of social culture who repeatedly and above all in his mature age has gone beyond the confines of his discipline with books such as “The university of the three betrayals” (1993), “The country of roughly” (2005), “The mild monster” (2008), “Caught in the net” (2012). But as an essayist Simone remains prudently professorial, sinning (if it is a sin) of bibliographic excesses.