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Biology and democracy in the light of politics The political organism is a fascinating creature, capable of not seeing its own nose even when it has already grown into the next room. Biology calls it sensory adaptation, politics calls it strategic blindness, and AI now polishes it into a smooth, algorithmically optimized form of not‑seeing. Everything embarrassing, personal, or long‑term disappears from consciousness faster than campaign promises after the votes are counted. Threats from the outside, on the other hand, appear in a resolution that would make a medical CT scanner jealous. The organism survives only because it ignores its own decay and celebrates it as stability. And the tip of the nose? By now it has grown to a size that requires an entire infrastructure of self‑deception to remain unseen: biological, political, and digital.

Per secoli abbiamo creduto che bastasse un microscopio per definire una persona. XX voleva dire “femmina”, XY “maschio”: due colonne, due destini. Un paradigma comodo, ma insufficiente. La biologia reale – quella che osserva processi, non etichette – ci restituisce un quadro più articolato. Il sesso è un processo che si costruisce in fasi (cromosomi → gonadi → ormoni → cervello → pubertà), e il genere è una dimensione vissuta che intreccia linguaggi, relazioni e istituzioni.