A commitment to hope in difficult times
Decades of frustration and disappointments contaminate our daily life with a malaise that anguishes us, irritates us, sometimes even to violence, and leads us to a pessimistic attitude, to a resignation that resembles a “give up” that, as we know, entails. depressive pictures of different kinds.
Some opt for alibis that circumvent the rules, for selfish narcissistic behaviors that do not register their peers and that allow them, based on a supposed personal benefit, to disregard the values and consensus that make possible what for the human being is to live: I mean to coexist
Without community, a society has no project. That is to say, it is not “thrown” into a future that gives meaning to life, that gratifies and excites us.
I am afraid that sometimes we stop asking ourselves the meaning, the why and the what for of this suffering that we endure and that isolates us, encloses us and prevents us from weaving the ties that transform us from people who “live on the same piece of land” to “citizens of a republic”. If the other is absent, I disappear. Without community, a society has no project. That is to say, it is not “thrown” into a future that gives meaning to life, that gratifies and excites us.
This implies a dynamic existence, a work of permanent change, a mobility that neutralizes those stagnation that are not so much a paralysis, but a “going backwards”. They are losses, collateral damage, sociopathic reactions, helplessness, and the loneliness generated by the lack of an argument that brings us together beyond individualities and drives us to face challenges; as well as creating a membrane that no one is willing to break for a transient personal gain if that action harms the health of the whole.
I wonder when the day will come when, as instinct has taught some species of animals, we understand that the first step to our own safety is to take care of the other. This has to do with trust, responsibility, justice; walk towards a tomorrow, not get caught in a freeze reminiscent of lethargy.
The permanence of thanattic stillness is not the same as the repetition of crises, if we understand the concept as the breakdown of a system that can no longer be sustained and requires a “true change”, and not only functioning with the objective of modify the equation that suffocated. Crises are not usually planned, just as they last a limited time and suppose a different before and after.
Something new is configured that aims, if it has managed to repair the wounds, to stabilize the new organization that it gave rise to.
A crisis must have the effect of refounding the type of previously existing relationships that give rise to a new, always dynamic balance that is the result of a collective awareness of what was harmful and counterproductive. That it can trigger a series of questions that, in its exploratory nature, propose other alternatives. It implies an essentially shared table of values, a clear recognition of the law as suprapersonal that orders, protects and sanctions. Indeed, it penalizes the infractions.
The change of position of the pieces on the board only for temporary interests unrelated to a search for deep reorganization and that does not alter the structure that supports it, does not open any hopeful horizon
If we think that any fracture is a crisis, a transitory chaos that will become a new landscape that aspires to be better and not the permanence of the same suffer with some other disguise, we must commit ourselves to an honest reading that enables a powerful demand. With a healthy self-criticism that leads everyone to an effective integration. It is precisely this that defends the rules, protects the right to dissent, helps a certain predictability and installs “lucid optimism” as a privileged tool. Banishing the “naive optimism” always faithful to a “useless magical thought”.
The change of position of the pieces on the board only for temporary interests unrelated to a search for deep reorganization and that does not alter the structure that supports it, does not open any hopeful horizon; On the contrary, we become spectators of the repetition, the main protagonist of the failure.
It must be emphasized that debating, disagreeing, questioning is a vital exercise. It is about adversaries looking for superior synthesis. If, on the contrary, as happens in our country, instead of confrontation and competitiveness we have hostility and war, there is no innovative path. Reconciliation does not mean complete coincidence, but respect for what is different. And an attempt to harmonize the disagreements in a possible way.
For now, it seems just an aspiration. Perhaps it is the first step to create a better country.
But I do not want to end these lines without mentioning some key points. First, be careful not to end up believing that this viscous immobility that we suffer is part of an inevitable destiny, against which we can do nothing. This conscious or unconscious thought deprives us of an active participation in the construction of the architecture of our future.
The other point is not to naturalize the artificial, not to diagnose as physiological what is pathological, because it is a failed resource that blinds us.
Finally, to observe with the gaze of someone who tries to discover and understand what is really happening and not, instead, with that of the desire that believes they see what they prejudicedly long for it to be.
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