Yes, we are modern. Building a new modernity. Let's shelve definitive values \u200b\u200band mindsets that exist during the last 30 years in Western culture.
Postmodernism had his one. Molona proved to many. After the idealists and radicals 60 and 70 years of the twentieth century, after the disappointment of 80, a Most people settled into a comfortable postmodernity empty of content but full of complacency.
was something that happened in the world, but in Spain, many would blame it practices the government of Felipe Gonzalez, who sits on a pervasive pragmatism would open the doors to the culture of the pitch at first, and a relatively widespread corruption afterwards. Corruption, which to our regret, it has only been a crescendo since then.
Insconcientemente on my part, then those eighties were not to my liking. Then I've been becoming aware of why. Had spread among the people of identity left in doubt on the idea of \u200b\u200bprogress. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a definite bump occurred among those who had always dreamed of a just society and an alternative to capitalism. The message that permeated among young people since then is: if there is no better future, enjoy the present.
But progress is possible. Of course, I am not referring to any kind of growth, not even any 'sustainable development' worth (hardly find another concept so prostituted by use intentions and interests like this).
Several factors have led us to become aware of this impossibility:
- globalization. It is not physically possible that the entire world population could live while maintaining the standard of living in Western countries.
- the energy crisis. We are close to reaching peak oil, this means that No more cheap energy and system-wide consumption and sustained mobility on it.
- finitude of the planet. The Earth always seemed big (although as of today not so much), but the truth is that it has a certain size: it is not infinite. Resources, therefore, are limited.
progress can not therefore be understood hereafter as material growth, and enjoy more objects, more products, more luxuries. There is progress, but fails to strike a new balance with nature and with ourselves.
passes a new economic culture supported the possibility, real, live better with less.
And he goes, especially, by the need to a new political culture built on values \u200b\u200bof ethics, equity, justice and solidarity .
That must be the new currency
Of all depends on building a better world |
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