While we are trying to survive the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic, the terrible effects of climate change, and the calamities of the country that the Venezuelan regime has created, the advance of populist and authoritarian governments, the world finds reasons to deepen the debate on the dilemma:Humanity or barbarism?especially after that unacceptable action of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that threatens the entire world, at a time when we are barely able to foresee the magnitude of the challenge of overcoming the difficulties and obstacles that will stand in the way of humanity becoming in humanity.
In this sense, it seems that the great mission in this decade will be to concretize a planetary unity in diversity.
In this sense, for the first time in history, the possibility of the “universal” has begun to be glimpsed as a consequence of different events, such as the awareness that the possibility of extinction of humanity ceased to be a rhetorical threat.
Added to this is the awareness that the global socio-economic crisis affects, now and in the near future, the performance of our personal and local economies, and the dynamics of our societies; the growing awareness that we are a world community that shares the same origin and the same destiny; the existence of an extensive and diverse network of intercommunications and dissemination of information that gives us access, in real time, to what is happening on the planet.
We refer, especially to the effect of visualizing the barbarism expressed in mercenary wars, the threat of terrorism or nuclear war, drug trafficking, human trafficking, famine, unemployment, poverty and violence in all its forms.
But also, to visualize the importance of strengthening networks of social interaction, environmentalists and defense of Human Rights, now expanded by grassroots community organizations that emerge as new social actors.
As we know, crisis situations are also favorable for both awareness and transformation processes.
These can favor the rapid propagation of transformative ideas and can open up formidable possibilities for the design and construction of a planetary human community, of a world-society reformulated in social, economic, cultural and ethical terms, which could contribute to making us human beings. civil, civic, civilized.
They can also give rise to a new mentality, new ways of thinking and acting, a current of tolerance, solidarity, understanding and compassion in the world, and a new breath, not for a promised “progress”, but for possible, sustainable and ethical progress. founded.
Now, to face the dilemma between humanity and barbarism, we are obliged to reintegrate ethics and politics and between ethics and science, between society and the environment, until now separated; a conjunction that is essential to the imperatives of a planetary ethic, which can only be affirmed and evolve from major awareness.
The awareness of the common human identity within the framework of the recognition of individual, cultural and linguistic diversities, which henceforth links each human destiny, national and regional, to that of the planet.
The awareness that relations between people, peoples and nations, today devastated by misunderstanding and intolerance, require a reformulation. But, in addition, the awareness of human finitude and its inseparability with the planet, with the community of life that inhabits it, and with the universe, for which more than the accumulation of knowledge, we need to achieve wisdom.
The abandonment of the Promethean dream of the domain of nature and its replacement by the aspiration to a cohabiting, affectionate
The awareness that solidarity with national, ethnic or community roots must be extended and strengthened with deeper roots in the planetary community, in order to overcome abstract and media cosmopolitanism, which ignores individual, social and regional singularities, as well as to myopic internationalism that ignores the reality of the homelands and peoples.
From there, a planetary ethic would have the purpose of providing us with the guides of thought, word and action that allow us to understand and resist the functions of nature, with its furies and its phenomena.
Also understand the logic of birth, illness, aging and death; understand and resist the human barbarity that is inherent in us, as well as the ignorance of the true nature of things and the phenomena of life, anger and attachment to the material. Confront and transform the cruelty of egocentric selfishness, intolerance and barbarism of the civilizational model, with its eco-predatory, alienating, exploitative, excluding, unfair and impoverishing techno-economic system, which sacrifices everything on the altar of profitability , comfort and benefit, or for the sake of the dreams of empowered psychopaths.
This vision of ethics makes a fervent call for the recognition of the other in its diversity and in its unity with us; to flexibility
There is, therefore, an appeal to awaken human goodness, which is also one with its capacity for evil, through the renewal and strengthening of Personal Mastery and the link with its spirituality.
In any case, the route will be hard, random and probably long, but at the same time we will find ourselves on it, facing the hopeful possibility of moving towards a beneficial transformation that encompasses all areas of human life.