Reflections on the duty to be
Uncertainty is the condition of something that is not safe or definitive, which generates doubts or hesitations in people; And, also, it refers to the absence of certainty (lack of knowledge of reality or truth), which can cause anxiety, restlessness or sensation of risk, fear or uneasiness.
When a person faces something unknown, unpredictable or ambiguous, which cannot be determined or interpreted reliably, his capacity for lucidity and predictability is distorted, which affects the adoption of decisions, the results of these and the adaptation to the future.
Uncertainty prevails in today’s world, because it is difficult or impossible to anticipate or predict what will happen to new phenomena or realities in the social, economic, political and technological realities.
In the social, there is a renewed containment of migrations, the expulsion of undesirable immigrants, the consolidation of moral relativism and post -truth, an uncompromising denialism of climate change, the decline of international cooperation, as well as the revival of intolerance, dogmatism and extremisms.
In the economic field, there is a fierce competition for access to strategic natural resources, which includes the occupation by the force of desired territories, the return of protectionist schemes (tariff and non -tariff barriers), an acute ideological and cultural polarization, the abandonment of conventional negotiation and commercial exchange rules, as well as a frontal war against transnational organized crime.
Reflection and critical thinking are not encouraged.
In politics, the consolidation of new world powers with its own geostrategies, the multilateralism crisis arising from the end of World War II, the return of Nativistic, nationalist and neo -colonialist ideologies, the discredit and the decline of liberal democracy, the lack of protection of human rights, the declaration of cultural confrontations, the statement of cultural confrontations, the strengthening of cultural confrontations are Authoritarian, the farming of areas of influence or domination, as well as a frantic and unstoppable arms race.
In technological, there are impressive advances in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, giving rise to brutal competition in research and development, without rules or limits, which are undoubtedly impacting on behavioral patterns and world economy.
In short, humanity lives agitated times, in the midst of a generalized bewilderment, in which many are threatened and exposed to weathering.
However, in Guatemala nothing happens. The increase in family remittances, whose amount exceeds exports, is still celebrated, and trusting the indefinite reissue of the US preferences system. There is no strategy for the attraction of productive, domestic and foreign investment, or for technological innovation.
On the other hand, the fratricidal struggle between conservatives and liberals is maintained, which, in essence, are the same ones that in the past fought for power. 60% poverty remains invisible to elites, without repairing that unemployment, without north emigration, is fatal, just like coexistence with mafiocracy.
The most worrying thing is that reflection and critical thinking about vertiginous changes are not encouraged. Action is not even taken to stop the effects of adverse conditions. On the contrary, divisionism, hatred and rematch occupy the minds of reciprocal enemies. That with their bread they eat it.