Antonio Navalón
If you look closely, spring is that state in which not only the blood is altered but also witnesses the birth of the flowers, the lengthening of the days, and the scorching heat – for those of us who live in this part of the world and not in the southern hemisphere, which is when autumn begins – which is announcing the arrival of a new cycle. Spring is a stage characterized by brilliance and in which everything is more colorful and pleasant for the spectators than we human beings are. In the spring, from the spirits to the markets, they reflect an undeniable fact: they are the prelude to another cycle that will arrive when we reach the equator of the year in June.
There was a moment when the years were years and where everything seemed to develop with singular normality; that moment seems to have been forgotten. Now, between the communications revolution, with the fact of having changed the bricks for feelings, the emergence of virtual societies, the fact that we are always connected, in the middle of the time and the most informed generation and when we also had so many opportunities for frivolous ignorance, there comes a time when even the step from the physical seems to be significantly altered by the psychological changes and changes of all kinds that are happening to us.
In politics, we are clearly at a point where the center has ceased to be a reference to political reign. The government of the extremists has overcome the struggle of centrism and apparent political balances. The offer is no longer about establishing a system or mechanism that encourages integration and that more and more citizens do better. No, at present, the offer is based on the premises of not forgiving, in collecting, and in counting – over and over again – who is to blame and who was to blame for our apparently unfortunate situation.
There was a time when the first challenge of any ruler was to seek to change the luck and fortune of his peoples. Today, in this spring that looks like autumn, it seems that the first challenge of the rulers is to feed and blow on the open wounds of the brain and soul so that their peoples never forget that it is not that they did it wrong, but that there has always been someone to blame for your situation. It reminds them that there has always been an abuser before whom it is essential to have divine justice at hand.
Sodom and Gomorrah is a model that in the Bible has a clear solution: God punishes by destroying absolutely without leaving any trace of evil or any sign of moral defect. Faced with the demand of men that God should not be a destroyer, He offered a truce that consisted in that, if they found 10 honest men, the peoples would be forgiven. However, they could not comply with what was requested and God destroyed everything that was in both towns without mercy. Even in the face of something as human as curiosity, it was the cause of a punishment unleashed by divine anger. When a woman decided to turn back, she ended up being turned into a pillar of salt all for heeding her instincts of curiosity.
The current models of many countries – some more than others – are made on the remnants of the pending account. They are made on what was left to collect and not on what is to be built. I do not believe that any society or community is capable of being built, leaving crimes unpunished. Still, I know and am aware that when the future is kneaded with hatred and revenge, the result is a storm of destruction, and human beings are deprived of a fundamental component to live: hope.
Everything is raised to a single letter. It is not possible to reconcile moral ruin with what is spiritual cleansing. Sinners must pay, now and forever. And they must burn in the divine fire, although doing so neither eradicates hunger nor poverty nor redeems or makes the victims live better. The current one is simply a model in which the most important thing is to carry out revenge. Then, the most important thing will be to find the justice that repairs the victims who, in this case, have a double affectation: when they were robbed and when, at the moment of exercising revenge on their behalf to repair what had been stolen from them, nobody worries that their lives improve.
Curious times that we have had to live. But they are basically for a reason: because everything is a challenge, from the point of view of human structures. Because, at the end of the day, whoever knows what we are doing when sending our children to schools or what they are going to learn should raise their hands. Raise his hand who knows what, how, and when we can place a moral alternative to what – without a doubt – is a ruin. Politics has ceased to have a constructive meaning. The proposals to build on what has been destroyed have disappeared. At this moment, the most worrying thing is to determine to what extent societies will be able to endure before everything explodes, and with it, the worst of the human condition emerges.
Surely things were always like this. But now, permanent connectivity everywhere makes the situation more noticeable. Regardless of who wins or loses the elections on June 6, the big questions that need to be answered come to mind. And, why do you want to win the election? We have to know what promises and programs he is truly willing to deliver. Is the program just destruction? Because otherwise, we need to know if what you are looking for is to build and with whom you will do it. Who, despite having been a sinner, can be forgiven? We have to know who is in your team and that they are not simply a chorus of hatred and a storm of fury in the name of what happened, what they did to us, or what we did to ourselves.
Although seeing the jacarandas that bloom throughout Mexico City is a clear reason to continue living, I don’t know if the flowers will reach their accustomed glow this year. But what is clear is that the worm – which is not silk – is engendered and, above all, is growing in a product in which more than a gentle change of season, it is the announcement of the outbreak of all storms.
In any case, since life must be guided by hope and optimism, which is a necessary condition to be able to overcome the consequences of what they do to us or what we have done to ourselves, I want to believe that this spring –Which looks more like autumn– instead of the fall of the leaves and the depopulation of illusions due to changes in the weather, let it be an explosion of new and powerful seeds. Seeds that lead us to know that, even after destruction, construction is always possible in the history of humanity. The big question is, where or when will the age of destroyers end, and who will be the new builders? To the latter, I sign up.
