“Mistress of the President of the United States.” Would this title whispered in corridors have held the same attraction, or even had the same effect on Marilyn, had she understood how truly futile it was as a means of joining the great names of history? At first glance, no one can deny that Marilyn is both a sociological and a consumer phenomenon. But can her “presence” also be regarded as a historical accident?

I hear cries of outrage! (Phew!) I also hear cheers! (At last!) All right! She belongs to the history of cinema, and she fed Hollywood gossip. Yet her participation in world history is undeniable. It is strange!... It is mad!... It is revolutionary! And yet human evolution possesses these very same characteristics.

Nothing prevented this woman, who knew how to look into a camera or how to be admired by it, from possessing a high degree of self-awareness. This demonstrates a highly developed capacity for abstract thought.

Everyone knows that most of her contemporaries regarded her as a pretty fool, a delightful blonde who inspired pleasant fantasies and quietly allowed a certain desire to find gentle release... But could this seemingly unintelligent manner, cloaked in apparent innocence, have been planned by Norma Jeane in an almost Machiavellian way?

When she was still merely a model, a struggling young starlet, Norma Jeane decided to raise her level of education. How many of us would read Freud or Dostoevsky, among others, simply for the pleasure of learning, while openly displaying, with charming naivety, a desire to educate ourselves?

Marilyn has now entered the “new history of the world”! The history beginning with the third millennium after Christ. Yet the question remains: would she have reached this level of fame had she not associated with the Kennedys? Perhaps... But today, the star that still shines is no longer JFK, but Marilyn.

To draw out the symbolic aspect, let us emphasise that everything that can be touched, made or created by humankind resembles humanity in some way. Great conflicts, those malignant tumours of human intelligence, are no exception. Although traditional wars, those legally sanctioned acts of mass killing, unfortunately occur everywhere, no country is safe from conflict. No one can deny the existence of another form of contemporary war, another form of contemporary “aggression”.

Indeed, Marilyn Monroe, with her appearance, her charm and her name, was a powerful image! And in the other world, she remains one. In 1959, that routine encounter... with Nikita Khrushchev, that imposing bald man, was merely a simple contest between two ideologies, two powers and two symbols. Marilyn easily won that round.

Every war, every murder, tears a unique spark from the Earth, a life that will never return. It is not only bodies that fall: destinies, smiles, loves and dreams disappear forever.

Think about it: among the dead, how many geniuses faded away before they could transform the world? How many inventors will never invent? How many artists will never delight our eyes and ears? How many generous souls will never have the opportunity to ease another person’s loneliness, to offer a helping hand, or simply to love?

Their hypothetical children too are condemned to eternal silence. Those sons and daughters who were never born, those entire family lines erased, are all worlds that will never see the light. Tomorrow’s music might have been richer. Science more daring. Art more radiant. Our hearts happier.

Let us pause for a moment. Let us imagine what History might have become had human madness not imposed its long procession of massacres. Which empires might have flourished without war? Which civilisations might have grown in peace? Which wonderful children might have inherited the Earth had violence not destroyed their ancestors?

My thoughts go out to all these victims. One of them once said: “Go forth and multiply.” But how can we do so if our peoples continue to tear one another apart and perish at human hands?

We cannot bring the dead back to life. But here and now, we can choose to build differently. Through our prayers, our words, our conversations, our demonstrations and our refusal of bloodshed, we can influence those who govern us. We can remind them that true greatness does not lie in ruling through fear, but in protecting life.

Let wars cease. Let murders cease. Let peace no longer be a fragile dream, but the only obvious truth.

Let us give Caesar what belongs to Caesar... There! I submitted the essential content of this text to artificial intelligence and asked it to refine it.