A certain newspapers and television did not hurt them to label clothing with thick strokes the disaster in Japan: on photographs nebula backdrop of the giant chimneys of nuclear power plants affected by the earthquake, the word "Apocalypse" has been repeated ad nauseam. Is it necessary to exaggerate what is already in itself is bad enough and overwhelmed as to need no accretions? The dimension of the tragedy, the extremely violent earthquake, the uncontrollable tidal wave, cold, power outage, the countless victims ...- really forces us to think on the edge of the precipice. But Japanese society itself, with the example of civility and serenity that is taking to tackle the huge risks on the horizon otean teaches us to think in terror made equally by the fury of nature and stupidity of human beings.
And, in the maelstrom of fear, paralyzed even the unpredictable drift of events, it becomes necessary to rebuild a peaceful argument that forces us to confront how we want to live. Because the earthquake in Japan and the nuclear disaster that has followed what we require is that: to put ourselves in the mirror of our society's waste and see how we live and how we live, if we want to leave a livable planet, our children.
The Japanese society was enchanted by technology, modernity, efficiency, efficiency. Japan seemed to have shown that nature is tamed, you can build a world in our image and likeness. The World According to Japan seemed a world capable of controlling the uncontrollable and unpredictable. The gods, fate or simply the tragic reality of reality, we have thrown mercilessly, again, to our being fragile. The earthquake has humbled our pride is not, therefore, to think through the fear of an atomic explosion but to think in the middle the recognition of defeat. There are limits: humans have limits, we can not control and dominate everything, and more than technology and science have made progress unthinkable in many fields, there is always room to escape to our security and our equations, a margin which can get up the dust, the smoke, the tide that breaks the weak without mercy that we are made of glass.
Think defeat means that it is acceptable to assume an energy, a technology that at certain times (those that are not worth the engineering or securities) may intervene in humanity to utter horror. Think so not terrified thinking beings, but simply as limited beings, which is what we really are. Because we can not impose conditions on the nature we can not build hazards beyond our control. This, of course, leads to a new scenario, where we probably will not come: renouncing nuclear energy, we need to rethink what is our own model of life based on the waste of resources and assets. Welfare societies, which have been transformed into companies of waste-can not live without nuclear power, but living with her live with the most terrible threat. And the economic crisis should have beaten our consciences and our ways of life, but has not done. Surely, when Japan no longer on the front pages of newspapers, the nuclear apocalypse will interest until further notice. The problem is that if once and for all not face our limitations and learn to live with them and in them, this induced apocalypse now apocalypse will usher in the end really eaten all we are. Because he plays live as a god dying just like a god.
(IDEAL, March 18, 2011)
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