The great civilizational passion
14
Apr
Military wars, market wars, endemic situations (dengue fever in Brazil
is not under control, for example) and endless polarizing rhetoric is a civilizational crisis, the basis of which is not the current situation, it has been going on since the beginning of colonization and worsened with two world wars.
It seemed at the end of the Second World War that with the UN, the establishment of human rights and the nuclear agreements we had found the way out, but the basis of this whole process, as we have seen here, is idealistic thinking, which the polarization calls neoliberal and the other pole communist, but every war is one of plunder and the death of innocents.
At a meeting concluded by NATO (photo) on Sunday (April 13), European defense ministers stressed that despite the United States’ negotiations with Russia, which both consider to be progress, Europe is discredited because Russia’s aggressions continue and threaten the region.
No matter the rhetoric, the basis of all idealistic/enlightenment thinking is a strong state and many countries are not abandoning this thinking, the tariff crisis is now the manifestation of Trump’s motto: “American first”, confronting even Europe.
The little I understand about economics, I understand that there is an interdependence of nations, a car produced anywhere in the world has parts produced all over the world, the Americans want them to be produced there again, with tariffs the American car becomes more expensive, while China’s tactic has been to produce cheaply and dominate the markets.
In fact, at the request of American carmakers, Trump backed down on car production, and on Saturday (April 12) he also backed down on taxing smartphones, computers and chips.
There will be more jobs in the US, but this didn’t seem like a problem to me, a lot of people were going there because there were jobs and they paid well, but in this regard the deportation of illegals is also going the other way and the lack of labor could represent another problem.
The war in the Middle East continues to be cruel to the Houthis, in the attacks the group’s intelligence chief Abdul Nasser Al-Kamali was killed, and the threats to Iran continue down a dangerous path.
There is always hope, there are always negotiators with a sincere desire for peace. What makes the crisis of civilization advance is that imperialist and warmongering thinking is on the rise with the increasing election of authoritarian governments, influenced by Enlightenment thinking, who see other peoples’ countries as enemies and won’t give in to any negotiation process.
It’s a week for Christians that involves the passion of Jesus, it seems to be closer to a civilizing passion of humanity, we need to think about the innocent, the future of humanity and the peace that is so desired, but so little remembered at the time of a conflict, we need to sow peace.
