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Christopher Cervantes
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by Christopher Cervantes
http://www.espiritualidadypolitica.blogspot.com We borrow
the title of the famous song by Bob Dylan of the 60 that marked that era. Indeed, in those years began to change times and lately the changes are accelerating. We have expressed several times in the blog our view of the current crisis, since more than 3 years we have been saying that, in our opinion, this is a crisis Global systemic, ie the global capitalist system is in crisis. Is not the first crisis of capitalism, has gone through several in its two centuries of existence, the last was the crash of 1929, and unless we learn from the mistakes of this crisis to be wrong again, again. This time the causes of the crisis in the first overcome debt capacity, and secondly by the end of cheap oil.
alternatives out of the crisis are two, on the one hand that capitalism reaches its height increasing their thirst for violence, control and exploitation, or else a way cooperation, solidarity, ecology, the new consciousness that emerged in the 60's. Crisis is defined as the time it ends not to die old and new born does not end. In our opinion the old is the capitalist system with his conscience materialistic, individualistic, consumerist and competitive, and new is the global consciousness, ecology, peace, cooperation, freedom, creativity, spirituality, and all values which began to spread in the 60's.
This new consciousness is not entirely new, but until now had been reserved for women and wise men and mystics. 2,500-Socrates said: "I am not an Athenian or a Greek but a citizen of the world." Very few people have repeated this planetary consciousness throughout history, but at 60 we could see the planet through television, a blue planet, without borders, in the midst of the vast universe, a common house extended global consciousness.
For example, small, this change is the video (two parts) of the conference Arcadi Oliveres published in the last blog entry, "I'm Moroccan and I'm going out on 20 February." In just two months, and only word of mouth on the Internet, has added more than 600,000 views on YouTube. Arcadi is one of those basic Christian has spent his entire life dedicated to justice and peace, with an impressive cv does not seek fame, money or power, but will act in good looking the common good, I know many of them committed Christians, mostly anonymous, are in line with the liberation theology to spirituality and social commitment they will together.
What is surprising is that Arcadi has spent decades giving talks to minority audiences, and this video is a lecture at a modest association of immigrants, and suddenly two months have seen more than 600,000 people.
The other day a writer friend who has spent half his life writing about new ecological consciousness and told me it is now when you can live it.
are two examples of how times are changing, those who are over 30 years saying that this system was not working, following the emergence of this new consciousness in the 60's, now have more viewers than ever because everyone is actually checking that the system is in crisis and needed sources of light and hope, emerging leaders.
But do not expect leaders to save us, the new leadership is collective, quantum, not personal, as we see in the Arab revolution.
But as we said before, the "other" out of the crisis is the development logic of the system to its height, increasing their thirst for violence, control and exploitation. A worrying sign of this change is that the dream capitalists always had been a minimum state that only serve two functions: to ensure that contracts (commercial, business, labor ...) are met and the order in the streets, everything else the "free market." Now the British Prime Minister announced the privatization of all public services less justice and police, to ensure contracts and order in the streets.
If one studies the history of the British people will, or at least that's what it seems to me, who have the rare ability to stay ahead of their time, to innovate, in politics, economy, culture, many things have gone from there it has spread all over the world later. In this context, it is not surprising that this measure be extended to other Western countries.
We have repeatedly compared the blog this crisis and the crisis of mourning, the crisis that a person goes through when facing death, loss of a loved one, a great transit. The five stages of grief crises are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
In our humble opinion, and thinking globally, we completed the long transition from denial to anger in the Arab revolution speaks of "days of rage". The crisis seems that no one denies it, as happened at first, but still refuses the depth of the crisis, and what is worse, many people still think that sooner or later return to before, and that is impossible. For example, the English government just a month ago (one thousand days after the crisis began, more than 3 years after the beginning of the crisis) has begun to change his speech that had the most solid financial system in the world to admit that we have some problems and we're going to have to pay between all English.
The debt problem is global, has exceeded the borrowing capacity of individuals, families, businesses, banks and government. And the main problem is the private debt, not debt. Long ago weather reports circulating internationally regarding the state of banking in Spain and are not very optimistic.
British Prime Minister is the only one, to my knowledge, has told its citizens that things will never be as before, only just arrived and has already laid off half a million public employees, has cut aid social, and promises to privatize all public services less justice and police, while touring the Arab countries selling arms right now.
are two possible futures, and depend on us, every one of us. As Leonardo Boff says, we have a revolution to do, take that life is changing and evolving and that we all are co-creators of the future.
