Between drama and comedy

February 11, 2022. No. 181

One more visit and I'll leave you alone with our memories. Things endearing never go away completely, even if they wanted to, and I know that they no longer we are those strangers of the Preface—far from it. I have discovered with you the wonder of absolute surrender, the one that goes above even oneself, who was going to tell me that you would emerge really from the abstract silhouette, which I invented to define the text —in that past, as remote as millennia, from the first pasterns—? However, nothing is clearer than you at this point; as a belief that travels towards the appearance after an insistent monologue. It may be that this faith has led me to attend more, to look at you (or that you that I extract by synthesizing everyone who surrounds me in real life). The fact is that you already exist, and I don't want to leave —if I leave— without thanking you for the magical fact of everything you have taught me in these silences with...

Albert Schweitzer wrote: We live in dangerous times. Man dominates nature before there is learned to control himself. Well, you know that nature cannot be dominated: either we learn to coexist with it, to harmonize, or we destroy it, that is, it will go to waste the human species. But the meaning of the phrase is that the scientific-technical progress —vertiginous in the last century—, has gone far ahead of social, spiritual, moral; inventiveness is not always in function of improving the lifes of human beings—or at least of the majority. Sometimes, even, technological development occurs in branches destruction of homo sapiens (and his companions).

Between drama and comedy, I have troubadour to the Middle Ages.

Ironizes Silvio in a song, and it is very true that the trip, in the human sense, seems to be backward. Globalization has taken a wrong path. Now we call it that, but is nothing new, our species has been globalizing almost since ever; from the invention of the wheel to the caravels, then the train and later the plane, the radio, television, until the satellite and the Internet; we have done nothing but shorten distances, bring people closer, intercommunicate. Think that in the 16th century, it took months for news to arrive from Europe to America, today a few seconds of typing in front of a computer; any human being, on the other side of the planet, it can be our neighbor.

If this evolution had been equal for all, it would be wonderful. We would be enriched by the exchange between the dissimilar cultures: customs, philosophies, art, history, collective intelligence floating around for each of us. But it turns out that this globalization has been bringing a hegemony, where fewer and fewer people impose their culture on more.

Thus, an impoverishing and ceding homogenization has been taking place, which has cornered the memory of many peoples, and some have even become extinct. There is no equity, beings coexist at this time in the era of cybernetics with others who have not even reached the phone, or worse still, not to have guaranteed water to drink.

I would say that instead of globalization (which would be the socialization of the terrestrial globe) we are inside a process of “imperialization” or “first worldization” since It is not about an inter influence of all cultures, but of the expansion of those belonging to the powers.

Until here you will think that there is nothing to do; everything, on the contrary, it is time to take advantage of the inevitable globalization (the technological possibility of being closer and closer to each other) to subvert the way in which is imposing, make a universal humanization.

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