Since a few months ago for health reasons, my life has changed radically, I have come out of the maelstrom in which I lived, among other things, to focus on the highest priority, which is to recover my health. And from a position further away from the personal bustle and from a very unique viewpoint that is none other than a closer look at the horizon where life and death border, I try to calmly analyze and reflect on the change of era we are going through, human behavior, trying to guess the future to which we are headed, although I dare not predict how it will be, since history shows that we have always acted at the risk of reactions to critical situations with actions, too often, dramatic for humanity. We live in a bipolar world that is mutating towards a more complex multipolar one where it seems that the apocalypse is just around the corner. In addition, communication technology has exponentially boosted information, both true and false, in all areas, thereby generating a stressful feeling that makes us understand that the world is going to explode at any moment. Actually, and trying to be very rational, we can affirm that although the current global situation of the planet is very delicate, since too many people still suffer hardships of all kinds, global poverty rates have been reduced in the last 30 years , which is still good news despite the fact that there are very important and critical sources of poverty, suffering and tragedy all over the planet.
According to the World Bank, in the last 30 years, the rate of people living on the edge of extreme poverty had been reduced considerably, but the impact of Covid has raised it to almost 700 million people, 7% of The world population. Now with the war in Ukraine, with an impact on many critical areas such as Africa and Latin America, the predictions with the measures that are being taken in the face of the current crisis, is to reduce this number of people living below $2.5 a day.
It should also be noted that this improvement has occurred despite the exponential growth of the world population, which already exceeds 8 billion inhabitants and which generates enormous stress on the planet. If managing a company or a country is already an enormous challenge, managing all of humanity is not just a challenge, but rather a utopia. The great objective, to be realistic, is to improve living standards, trying to best manage humanitarian crises of all kinds that arise, some at the hands of the human being himself and others that are part of the randomness of the universe.
We cannot deny that human beings from their origins have always been individualistic, predatory and selfish, although their intelligence has indicated that by associating with others they could improve, but always with the premise of putting myself first. The ecosystem has been, and I am afraid it will always be, an "egosystem" as Xavier Marcet rightly calls it. The human being associates out of interest, but always with the intention of acquiring a greater portion of power and wealth, although I no longer know what the order of preference is. Perhaps both feed off each other and one without the other cannot survive. Let it be clear that they always walk together, sometimes scrambled and in any egosystem, whatever it is, they have no ideologies or anything similar, it is the sole purpose of unhealthy ambition, a lethal virus for humanity.
That is why the dominant and the gregarious always emerge, and the relationships between the two have always been complex and with enormous traumas that have been repeated throughout history. The great paradox is that the first ones without the second ones would not exist, but this symbiosis has no cure and is always repeated despite the fact that the second ones are usually the biggest victims.
And why are these behaviors repeated throughout history? Well, because the satraps manipulate, deceive and misinform those they consider subjects and compensate and buy with small and continuous gifts, instead of investing in knowledge and empowerment of the population, but this does not interest, the greater the ignorance, the more power. The only cure is democracy, which, although imperfect and in some cases too much, is better than any autarky.
In fact, we human beings themselves have invented all kinds of tools and formulas to create barriers that prevent others from entering our borders and, at the same time, we have designed strategies to take possession of other people's properties and then protect them from those we consider to be enemies. . It is the history of humanity, the Monopoly of life that never ends. It is always the same and unfortunately repeats itself endlessly.
Countries and their borders, religions, the languages we use, races and their genetic characteristics that make us all unique, political ideologies, some too artificial, and so many other things, exist and we misuse them to divide and confront. And these confrontations that have always existed have generated profound confrontations marked by excessive ambitions, too often led by satraps and sociopaths who too often have been elected and protected by gregarious attitudes founded on populism. These characters and their courtiers do not distinguish by ideologies, there are no rights or lefts, all "isms" are the same, separating and selfish. The lies that we have wanted to believe and by a misunderstood gregariousness that always end up in the unfortunate "isms" that have no cure and always produce wounds in different societies throughout history and throughout the world always appear, but after the fact. planet. And these wounds heal but they are always there, and their memory too often returns in the form of what has become so fashionable and that we call "historical memory", which is nothing more than rekindling ancestral hatreds and starting over. It is the “boomerang” effect of hatred, which never stops rubbing past wounds, which causes spirals of repeated confrontations throughout history.
Humanity is complex because it is difficult to observe and understand the cruel paradox of how with one hand we dedicate billions to research in all areas of health sciences (it is estimated between 350 to 500 billion dollars annually), destined to find solutions to cure diseases and even formulas to improve the quality of life of human beings and, with the other hand, we allocate enormous amounts of money, according to the Stockholm Peace Research Institute, to weapons. We are talking about amounts such as 2.2 trillion dollars. According to different sources, only between the two world wars of the 20th century, around 80 million people died, not counting injuries, refugees and many other so-called secondary effects. How can we explain and at the same time understand, that the same ones who try to progress, improving the well-being of humanity, filling our mouths with great campaigns to achieve the sustainability of our planet, to investigate and find solutions that mitigate or eliminate the devastating effects of diseases such as cancer, or neurological or cardiovascular diseases, among many others, without disdaining the enormous investments in the face of possible pandemics that devastate humanity such as Covid 19, while at the same time being capable of committing heinous crimes, with wars and all kinds of nameless actions that act against human beings, their lives and their dignity?
This is the great paradox of humanity, we are victims of ourselves and as the title of this article, we are both "masters of death and guardians of life". This is how history has been and this is how the future is presented, with the only aggravating circumstance that any war, already tragic, undesirable and shameful, can be unleashed by some crazy, reckless or desperate political leader, some measure, for example nuclear, which may not destroy the planet but it does alter and cause a huge setback in humanity, without counting the human lives lost along the way that, unfortunately -let's remember the pandemic-, become pure and cold statistics. The human condition has no one to define it exactly. We are full of edges and they will remain there until the end of humanity. May God, if he exists, everyone's, without religions involved, protect us!
