Gessam
Since the dawn of history, ideas have always been the true force that moves humankind.
Kings have ruled by the sword, but it is ideas that have bent peoples to obedience or driven them to rise up.
Scholars have discovered the laws of nature, yet it was ideas that gave them the courage to seek the unknown.
Even religions and philosophies were, at their origin, nothing more than ideas that grew into vast systems governing minds and hearts.
This novel is not merely the story of a man who sells ideas; it is an open question about the very essence of our existence:
Do we possess our ideas... or are they, in reality, the ones that possess us?
Ibram, the hero of this story, is only a mirror of our contemporary world, where ideas have become commodities-sold, bought, and used to dominate and direct rather than to liberate.
In an age when the most fearsome weapon is no longer the bullet, but the word-and the idea hidden behind it-painful questions rise before us:
Is thought truly free, or is freedom merely an illusion sold to us by those in power?
Can morality withstand the temptation of power offered by a single idea?
And can independent thinking become a danger to the one who dares to carry it?
With each chapter, the novel reveals the struggle between a person and their idea, between the desire for freedom and the fear of its consequences.
It is a journey through an invisible market that no one sees, yet which governs the entire world:
the market of ideas.
And when Ibram writes his final sentence:
"The most dangerous thought is to think for oneself."
he offers no answer, but leaves us facing a heavy responsibility:
Are we ready to pay the price of the freedom to think?
For true freedom cannot be bought, sold, or imposed.
It is conquered from within, in that moment of courage when one dares to say:
"I will think for myself... whatever the cost."