The Haste of Hypocrisy
Gennaro De Mattia
30 April 2025
An old adage we are all familiar with goes: “Haste makes waste!” Often, popular sayings carry wisdom that seems obvious and is therefore blatantly dismissed as trivial by some well-read intellectuals who, at best, are nothing more than warehouses of miscellaneous facts. We live in a society that has elevated haste, or speed, to a sort of totem. This idea of haste in a near-sacred status, which first emerged with the Futurists of the early twentieth century, has ironically and tragically returned as the dominant theme among the ruling classes in this new millennium. Therefore, we are urged to hurry because there’s no time, because time is seen as a tyrant,
