(Marco Emanuele)
Peace in the third millennium is a topic of increasing complexity and depth. It requires a long process of self-education and sharing in the times we live in.
What needs to be overcome is the exasperation of linear thinking, which is showing the highest level of degeneration, while still resisting. This thinking makes us slaves to established certainties which, increasingly, risk turning into dangerous self-deceptions.
The exasperation of linear thinking does not open us up to historical visions but closes us in on the immediate present: on the one hand, we feel a growing need to identify and defeat the enemy and, on the other, we are called upon to share in unlimited competition to exalt – without attention to the general context – what we can enjoy in terms of selfishness without solidarity.
What we are describing is the principle of war that is permeating our societies in almost every field. We need to break a vicious circle that is gradually nullifying the great achievements of democratic experience and that does not contemplate mediation (rather, it provides for downward compromises), dialogue and vision. The war must be fought now, without waiting for tomorrow: every minute is precious because it could be decisive.
War, in the “onlife” condition we are experiencing (no longer just online and no longer just offline), is constantly changing: while armies still fight on the battlefield, war is much more than that. So peace must transform itself, calling us to a responsibility that can no longer be avoided: moral, cultural (complex thinking rather than just linear thinking), political, economic and legal. As we wrote, the road is open.
