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The history of the humankind is
a long history of struggle; beginning with the struggle against
nature, against social injustice, against economic inequality,
against ignorance, against pain, against suffering, against death.
This same history proved that these struggles can be brought
to fruitation, and the crisis at hand can be overcomed if something
is collectively done. It is in the doing that the species develop
and advance toward the evolutionary path.
Although, the human being has made great leaps since the first
homosapiens - domesticating plants and animals, conquering illness
and disease, advancing science and technology, instituting educational,
social, judicial and economic systems that try to benefit a greater
number of people each time - it is evident that these advances
are not at all enough; that food, which is in abundance should
be distributed to the hungry (individual or nation); that healthcare
and medicine should be available free to all who need it; that
education (from preschool to the highest institutions of learning)
should be available free for anyone and everyone who desires
it; that the business of governing should be the sole responsibility
of the governed (not in theory, but in practice); that the profits
and managing of companies and corporations should be equally
shared between capital and labor.
The human species is now at the crossroads of its existence;
will it make the final great leap to the unfamiliar landscape
of the future? Or, will it make a big step backwards to the familiar
but violent past? Will it continue with its ascent through the
longer but evolutionary path, or take the easier way descending
thru the through road? Will it continue with the progressive
struggle of its ancestral heroes, or surrender to the dictates
of a regressive and reactionary few?
The human species is at the crossroad of its existence. it is
experiencing the greatest crises of its lifetime. It has its
back against the abyss. It cannot make a step backwards. It has
to continue with its journey. The human species has to fulfill
its destiny. It has to continue with its own and its ancestors'
struggle.
The history of the human being is a history of struggle; represented
by the struggles of the colonized nations, the student protest
movements of the 60's, the civil rights movements, etc, initiated
by the disenfranchised majority against the ruling minority.
Will the same hold true for the total and global change that
is in the horizon?
A NEW WAY OF STRUGGLE
The history of the human being is a history of the new surpassing
the old. Whenever something is dying, something new is being
born. Indeed, something new is being born in the hearts of each
individual human being: a new way of thinking, of feeling and
acting in the world; and this something new transcends races,
transcends classes, transcends all backgrounds: economic, social,
cultural, political.
In such a way, that it could manifest itself from within the
diverse cultural backgrounds of the world. Will these forces
join hands in the noble task of working together to humanize
the earth - fulfilling man's destiny? Has the historic moment
arrived? Is Real History about to begin?
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