Nuclear war or virtual world? More education

Maria Rita

Parsi

We have no more excuses! It is appropriate to say “Enough really!” if, in 2022, with all the scientific, humanistic and spiritual discoveries available, with all the economic and natural resources that we could activate, the methods we adopt to give a future to those who are born are, very often, those in use in seriously “Dysfunctional” just as national and international communities that choose (putting the very survival of the planet at risk) wars, more or less veiled nuclear threat, environmental instability, crime, exploitation of individuals and systematic abandonment of protections appear to be dysfunctional due to childhood, diversity, old age. It is true that, as human beings, we are in the final “showdown”. And to that “time out” by reason of which we will either use nuclear power for the beneficial purposes to which it can be applied or we will risk carrying out a collective homicide-suicide. Also in consideration of the reckless leadership of so many fools who rule the world and who are not recognized as such, by virtue of the incompetent slanders from which neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, psychopolitics, sociology, anthropology and spirituality are denigrated.

And Machiavelli, according to whom men do nothing but repeat, over the centuries, through “historical courses and recourses”, the same tragic destructive actions. It is true that whoever fails to give himself, to give and to use adequate tools to decrypt the individual, collective unconscious and the messages of the “transpersonal”, risks slipping into a dead end tunnel. Because, as I have written several times: “God forgives. The unconscious, individual and collective, no!” and human beings are perennially tormented by the anguish of death, the mother of all human anguish. And it is precisely because of the fact that we are not “immortal” and to consider “birth as a death sentence” – so said and wrote, Daniele Vitali, 17 years old! – that they have devised all the psychological defenses humanly in place, to find that immortality. First among which – as Erick Fromm states – is that of “I will die but there is a life beyond mortal life”. And humans “the other world” invented it. It is the virtual world thanks to which a Japanese married a hologram. And in the name of which, 4 years ago, on TV I had to comment on a passage from the South Korean program “J can meet you” in which a mother, with goggles and finger sensors, talked, moved and participated – just like we would do with a person alive and dear to us – with the “avatar” of her little girl who died of leukemia at the age of six. So in passing the baton to the new generations, we deliver to them both nuclear weapons a thousand times more powerful, those dropped on Hiroshima and Nakasaki and “the other virtual world” where you never die. And laws and rights to privacy are banned, to human dignity conquered with millennial sacrifices, studies and struggles. The point is to choose between protecting everyone’s life or putting it at risk with nuclear power and making it confusingly immortal, erasing the differences between living and dead. I ask myself: “Wouldn’t it be better to invest in training and mental health, individual and mass?”.