Answer to Question #305363 in English for gen

Question

Make a reflection about "Today's world and our Era" (150 words)

Answer 1

The reflections of Roberto Savio touch problems which have roots that are not recent and have become increasingly serious over time. His arguments coincide with mine, which are directed both to the present and to a re-reading of the past in the light of contemporary needs. With no claim to being exhaustive, the following are a number of considerations stimulated by Savio's article;

When one asks seriously if we are in transition towards a new world, then it means that in all probability a step has already been taken. The concept follows the idea, but the real is not rational: it is full of contradictions. And it is for this reason, and because of the misalignments between different temporal and spatial scales, that possibilities for action open up.

On a longer and wider time and space scale, the world in which we live is marked by two transitions. With the atomic weapon we entered an era in which conceiving the end of humanity or civilization is no longer a mystical fantasy or a literary vision but a real possibility: humanity can put an end its history, not through divine judgment or the random motion of an asteroid, but by its own hand.

That the atomic weapon has not been used to hit an enemy since 1945 does not mean that it has no very concrete effects. It has, and they are many and pervasive, even though they are often not easily perceivable in everyday life.

Possession of the nuclear weapon shows that the power of the state in question has an anti-human and potentially exterminating nature. I am convinced that the fight against all nuclear arsenals, of any state, should come first in the battle against militarism and imperialism. The destructiveness of the nuclear weapon is the exact opposite of the international solidarity of peoples fighting against their oppressors; defense against nuclear threats is a powerful means of justifying militarism and gathering consensus around the ruling classes and political castes.