Monday, January 17, 2011

Looking in the wrong direction

(ES)

"A community is disintegrating as soon as consents to abandon its weakest members."

Léon l'Africain - Amin Maalouf.

Governments of developed countries at this time of crisis not only economic but also of values, look at the powerful and govern at their dictation, or at least, favoring their interests to the detriment of general interest.

Is this the beginning of the disintegration of the global community and the system as we know today as Maalouf sentence?

I hope so, or at least, involving a change of direction.

Let us look in another direction. We demand our leaders, judges, journalists to put the focus on the weakest, not looking the other way, without turning a deaf ear, without lukewarm measures, without yielding to pressure from big banks and corporations that control the economic activity.

From the individual point of view let us examine our conscience to evaluate the effort we do for those around us in a position of weakness. And our surrounding, in a global world, is becoming wider.

Consider for a moment that the denial of relief in a situation of violation or abuse is a crime, and if a crime is committed while a witness looks away, becomes an accomplice to it.

Then at the macro level happens the same. Why not to judge our governments by complicity or denial of assistance to the violation of human rights, or to the abuses committed by other governments on its population?

But this trial is not held in court, but in the collective conscience of each and every one of us. And only when we become aware of it and decide to take part is when we see the enormous pressure we can exert as a collective.

Take for the initiative, and let them know to the different powers that govern us that we require them to look in another direction.


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