The world is –and has always been– something that tends towards entropy; that is, to get worse, to generally head towards disorder. It slides, like a wall of a mountain next to a town towards the end of it, with a tendency to, sooner or later, collapse and bury the personnel.
Faced with something like this, we have two options: either we move on time or we propose to solve it, even if it is without guarantee of solving the problem. It is clear that if things, approached with effort, intelligence, honesty and will, could be fixed, even the least clever and most lazy would be tempted to do well and do good.
The most uncertain and courageous solution is the one that has courage, commitment and the willingness to sacrifice as conviction. I know that all this to the idolaters of Tiktokism must sound like the language of the Martians, but there was a time, not so long ago, when we knew people for whom it was normal to sacrifice and give the best of their lives: their time, their energy and their commitment to care for their people: family, students, patients, neighbors, community...
What has happened? It became fashionable to talk about the "paradigm shift", a phrase that, uttered by whom and at what time, should be associated with a warning sound, since paradigms should not be changed so easily. What was good for Marcus Aurelius should still be good today, since when someone takes refuge in the brilliant metaphor of Bauman and his liquid society, we should be careful with the wallet, because someone will want to make us commune with things that, often, in the background, they are not good. Rather than hide behind the fact that everything is liquid (Bauman warns about those who are close to Groucho Marx and his "these are my principles, and if you don't like them, I have others"), as an antidote we have, for example, phrases by Marcus Aurelius prepared : "Love the trade you learned and put your rest in it...", which helps us to commit ourselves to our trade and serve the community. And this other one: “Life is neither good nor bad; it is a place for good and evil.”
Let's be alert, because good and evil exist. We have two options: either we are the mountain that is sinking or we are part of a mesh that holds the huge mass of land, so that it does not crush us.️
