Where is our world headed?
Typically, two radical and irreconcilable positions arise in response to this question: the greatest and hopeless pessimism and the most fanatical and naive optimism. Hell and paradise.
According to an extremely optimistic view, our world follows a straight and upward line where important events go unnoticed. Creation and progress are constant. Today more than yesterday, and less than tomorrow… There are no obstacles, no difficult problems; on the contrary, there is only love and understanding in a harmonious human family.
Hostility, conflicts, and mistakes are just insignificant pranks that can easily be corrected with goodwill and a smile. The only shadow that darkens this happy panorama are the people who do not share this view, the black prophets who spoil the naive joy of those who see or interpret things as they find them more pleasing. As if they move through history without leaving a trace.”
According to a pessimistic vision, civilization is plunging into ruin. Today, Things are worse than yesterday, but better than they will be tomorrow. The regression of the human species is evident, and different reasons are highlighted as the causes. Among them, the lack of spirituality is particularly emphasized, or more specifically, the distancing from one religious form or another, the lack of understanding of certain social and political forms.
Science is also ominous: the greater the knowledge, the greater the disasters and the worse the way in which humans apply that knowledge. Art is merely a vulgar stimulation of emotions… We find ourselves facing complete downfall; everything is going wrong and there are no solutions.
We are left only to wait for the end of the world, a great catastrophe about which there are numerous predictions of all sorts within a wide range of negativity.
So once again we ask ourselves: where is our world heading? Do we have only these two possibilities, only these two ways of looking at life, our current life?
If we objectively analyze our time, it is impossible to avoid the idea of crisis. Much has been destroyed, worthless, forgotten, or lost, too much consumed… but in everything There is a strong desire for change, although it is not known what exactly needs to be changed or which direction to take for the most successful changes.
Timeless morality, the sense that there is something above current existence, has dispersed in consciousness, or lies dormant deep in the unconscious, or occasionally peeks out but is overpowered by a disoriented multitude. Beauty, courage, honesty, refinement of good taste, sensitivity of love, and ultimately spirituality hide like shameful deficiencies amongst the rags of fashion, irony, crudeness, and violence. At first glance, individual and collective aggression can be observed, a complete lack of tolerance, mutual demeaning, and vengefulness at all levels.
So, does no glimmer of light exist?
Of course it does. Light exists as soon as we are capable of thinking about what is happening, analyzing what we see, and extracting experiences from it all. Light exists as soon as we are capable of dreaming of a new and better world, while simultaneously exercising the will to transform it. We echo into reality. Light exists as long as we continue to read the always vivid pages of history through which we learn that we have always overcome bitter and difficult moments. Thus, the greatest optimism is expressed through strength and intelligence in order to avoid repeating mistakes and renew ourselves through what we have learned.
Where is our world heading?
Towards the fulfillment of our own destiny, and we humans are a part of it. It is time to ask a new question: am I ready to actively participate in it? The possibility of achieving it lies in the affirmative answer. Now is the moment.