We need a new ONU (I)

The past seems to have a heavily weight in the present and future by now. The humanity, in the verge of the third millennium, suffers from the bad and ambivalent questions that the industrialism expansion left behind during the last two centuries. As a wedge introduced into ancient and agricultural societies not prepared for that shock into his traditions, the industrialism, as an unique ideological purpose, spread over the countries brought a good dose of pressure. The expansion caused by the search of raw materials and markets, manly trough the colonialism a century ago, left some countries anxious to get some vital space because that they not had, in the first instance, obtained a site in the podium. The struggle for vital space ended for provoking a severe rupture and the irruption of the I and II World War in the XX Century.

After the II World War the consolidation of the World Commerce, an aim that was a major interest of United States of America, made easy to put money in the countries that lost the war. With the reconstruction of Europe and Japan the global commerce increased very much and introduced a new agenda for the developed countries. The Economy dominated and monopolized the decision power in all the countries. Later, the Finances dominated the Commerce and the transferring of money in the minor time possible became an end itself. The speculation on currencies, shares and acquisitions became fundamental for the continuous growing of the Market, already with capital letter, since, as was said above, the Finances bypassed the Commerce by large.

The Financial Business was possible due the large increase in the new technologies of computers and Telecommunications, that are spreading so fast that each new day we have a better response for the reduction of time between financial transactions.

Biotechnology, Space Research and conquest, Bionics, Genetics, Computers, Telematics, etc. are new frontiers and, in a analogy with the past, some countries will arrive first, perhaps reproducing the same old problem: a global predominance of few. But this scenario must not be the only option open for the mankind, because it was the predominance of the past over the future or, in other way, the predominance of the anxiety, the fear, the tension and rupture.

What is really at stake?

Well, the so called “globalization”, based manly in the new technologies and in the quickness of the communication, Internet and so on, could be a new Enlightenment Age or that old predominance of the fear, the predominance or the Past over the Future, depending of our response to the challenge.

By now we have two different kind of situations pervading the World: the first one is a some kind of illusion about the Future, generally assimilated with an optimistic view about the right response of the mankind. This is basically a hope that the Man will use the new technologies with a sound sense and that this new achievements will come to improve itself. On other hand, the second situation is a pessimistic view based on some new ruptures that the globalization have been creating, like:

a) The economy globalization and the spreading of a unique culture is smashing smaller
cultures and languages and is provoking a loss of identity for many communities.
b) A new utopia is growing. Does it have a real base?
c) Some of the new rulers are without face: speculators that have more financial power than the majority of the Nations.
d) It’s spreading a distinctness separation between a new elite (the elite-sphere) and the excluded (the excluded-sphere)
e) Mass unemployment had been derived from new parameters adopted for the Production.

So, we’ll have to stop our mind in some topics that is, by now, on severe attack of the new. How we’ll cope with them can be the difference between a glorious Future, a New Enlightenment Age, or a predominance of the Man over the man, but with more power of few over the majority of the humanity.