Within this diagnosis, what place does the voice of the indigenous people occupy? If there is something that the native peoples currently propose, it is "good living", a concept that the indigenous people know better than anyone else. The man who lives in huge urban complexes, with that consumer mentality, lives in the conviction that unlimited growth is something that happens spontaneously. The man who lives in those 40-story buildings, with a bad elevator, who barely pays for the month, who lives at the limit of what is bearable, that person does not know the good life: he lives in hell, neurotic, with pills, he lives a life of nothing, and that represents 80 percent of humanity.… The indigenous people do know the concept of good living because they do not see life as the unlimited growth of human work. They simply continue in their symbiosis with the natural order, even if unconsciously. And it is the natural order that inspires the balance, the balance between work and rest, between projects and what nature offers... For them, nature is not a set of "resources" but the work of an invisible power The sense of transcendence is, therefore, a key point in this current state of crisis as well as in the concept of good living. In the Manifesto, I emphasize that the crisis provoked by this human type is due to Nietsche's famous phrase "God is dead", which is a diagnosis of the society of his time. We do not need God, whether he exists or not, it does not matter. We have a world project in which we can dispense with God as an explanation of the universe's origin or the sense of transcendence. We do not need any of those concepts that were important for traditional society. The reflection destined to the question of meaning disappeared and was replaced by the calculation of the meaning of the universe. The sense of transcendence gives you respect for people, for animals, for the earth itself, it gives a sense of sacredness to the natural order. Nature is seen as a whole and not as a set of natural resources. To live inserted in the natural order is the secret of human fulfillment, you live feeling the transcendence at hand that lies behind the whole phenomenometric world at your fingertips and that is great wealth. Do you believe that there is an awakening of humanity towards this indigenous way of looking at the world? In the Environmental Encyclical, Pope Francis gives the example of indigenous people. And he is saying it to Christians before it was the other way around: the civilized Christian knew everything and the indigenous knew nothing. Now we are the ones who know nothing. For example, concerning taking care of the land, for indigenous people, the land is not a good that can be traded in the market, but a gift from God. It is as if the Christian were an atheist and the indigenous were teaching him that this creation was made by God. Good living is the great future concept that can save humanity from the unlimited growth that is destroying everything. How can we face this destruction and production society? A new type of revolution must be created. Gandhi was a great example who led a revolution that gave results, without using violence, with respect for his adversary, considering that he is still a neighbor, a neighbor who is wrong and to whom we have to show him his injustice so that he can see it and turn his conscience around.
mentalidad de consumo, está convencido de que el crecimiento ilimitado es algo que se da espontáneamente. El hombre que vive en esos edificios de 40 pisos, con el ascensor malo, que apenas termina el mes, en una estrechez al limite de lo soportable, esa persona no conoce el buen vivir: vive en un infierno, neurótico, con pastillas, vive una vida de nada, y eso corresponde al 80 por ciento de la humanidad… El indígena sí conoce el concepto del buen vivir, porque no se plantea la vida como el crecimiento ilimitado de la obra humana. Sencillamente ellos siguen en su simbiosis con el orden natural, aunque sea inconscientemente. Y es el orden natural el que inspira el equilibrio, el equilibrio entre trabajo y reposo, entre los proyectos y lo que la naturaleza ofrece… Para ellos la naturaleza no es un conjunto de “recursos”, sino que es la obra de un poder invisible. El sentido de trascendencia es, entonces, un punto clave tanto como en este estado de crisis actual, así como también, en el concepto de buen vivir. En el manifiesto pongo el acento de que la crisis que provoca este tipo humano obedece a la famosa frase de Nietzsche “Dios ha muerto”, que es un diagnóstico de la sociedad de su época. No necesitamos a Dios, si existe o no, da lo mismo. Nosotros tenemos un proyecto de mundo en el cual podemos prescindir de Dios como explicación del origen del universo o del sentido de trascendencia. No necesitamos ninguno de esos conceptos que fueron importantes para la sociedad tradicional. La reflexión destinada a la pregunta del sentido desapareció y la reemplazó el cálculo. El sentido de trascendencia te da un respeto por las personas, por los animales, por la tierra misma, le da un sentido de sacralidad al orden natural. Se ve la naturaleza como un todo y no como un conjunto de recursos naturales.
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