Gagged understanding

The tremendous process of concentration of wealth that prevails in the world (62 people have concentrated the same wealth as 3.6 billion people) punishes large majorities keeping them poor or pushing them back in their level of life and so-hardly-fought rights, mercilessly destroys the environment with its irresponsible predatory action, undermines social cohesion and intensifies antagonisms among countries, enthrones endless greediness and the selfishness of just caring for one’s own interest without considering the aspirations and sufferings of the rest.

In this context, the uneasiness expands at an alarming rate in multiple directions. It is not by chance that such lava of furiousness and frustration is not focused on transforming the diverse modalities that have the concentrating process, not the only but one of the main responsible factors for today’s commotion and instability. It happens that those who have seized the global course rudder have managed to implant mechanisms for diverting the transforming potential to prevent their interests and privileges being affected. These mechanisms are a powerful arsenal to manipulate and domesticate popular will: it combines dissuasive means (the power to impose and repress) with alienation and disorientation means (colonization of minds, trivialization of life, and alienation of conducts). The ability to understand what is going on becomes dangerously threaten.

The articles of this issue of Opinion Sur, From inequality to instability, The accabadora, and The atomic bomb and the Olympic games, converge on the challenge to understand critical instances of our realities.

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The Editors

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