We can think differently, feel differently, build differently

It is unsustainable to maintain the course and way of functioning that prevails in the world. A few privileged concentrate wealth, income, and decision-making ability while 7 billion people have fewer and fewer rights, go backwards in their wellbeing or are punished with poverty or indigence. Meanwhile, the planet is steamrolled and all types of fundamentalisms emerge. Faced with that disheartening situation, some proclaim that it is possible to reproduce with small adjustments the prevailing order. Others think that, by restoring the order that prevailed before the unbridled concentrating process became explosive, the old course could be resumed reorienting it towards a less antagonistic world. Those proposals have serious consequences. The first one is pure greed as it tries to protect the interests of concentrated groups. The second one is naïve and voluntarism: it does not appreciate how deep it has penetrated the destruction that has been imposed on us and how the roots that support the prevailing course has kept expanding.

It is not about jettison past experiences and the permanent flow of new knowledge; just the contrary. The problem is that, by recovering the best of our collective past and that of the present that is worthwhile to incorporate in the backpack of humanity, it is inevitable to explore new paths, some of which with time and effort could turn into roads and avenues. We are not talking about unreachable utopias but about a referential utopia that can guide towards a diversity of strategies and measures to take care of our planet and assure the dignity of every human being.

Of course they would like us to believe that the best and sole course is the one that today makes us all tremble, which is no more than a sum of deceits, concealments, falsehoods and blatant lies. We can think differently, feel differently, build differently.

If they divide and cheat to reign (that is, defend the interests of privileged minorities), then middle and popular sectors will need to unite in effective organizations clarifying everyone along the way. For lack of that, it hurts to see the desperation claiming for magic solutions; it is very tough to explain that there are none. What we do have is a great lethargic potential that if awaken and mobilized could take the rudder of our destiny, dismounting the subduing mechanisms that weigh on humanity. In that path, many of us are.

Greetings

The Editors