War in itself is a human catastrophe. It is an explicit admission of our fundamental inability to resolve conflicts. The desire for power, symbolized in authority, dominance over others, the belief that we are the owners of things and people; greed, which manifests itself in money, its accumulation, the desire to have more and more as a means of happiness, prestige and freedom. And fear, a deep fear of death that tries to avoid everything that attacks our life in one way or another, leads us like cornered animals to attack, rob, torture, disappear those who hurt us or threaten this unstable balance. they have turned our lives, our societies, our presence in this beloved land that we have turned into a treasure to be exploited and depleted.
If we add to that the consumption of drugs, an escape mechanism and false happiness, whose business is driven by enormous capital and turns the impossibility of living well with oneself into a business, we have fertile ground for great disasters. This desire for life, seeking euphoria, speed, sex, joy, avoiding suffering, has drawn millions of lives into its vortex.
The drug business provides money with its enormous potential to corrupt and infect politicians, civil, military, judicial, religious and business authorities. The youngest are easy bait on that screen of aimless appearances. The money it produces has become the engine of illicit enrichment. And our ports are a privileged place for expanding business around the world.
Thus we come to a conflict over its distribution no longer outside the borders, but in the country, prisons, neighborhoods, roads, public and private spaces. An asymmetric internal conflict, in which it is not known where the enemy has camouflaged, and the victims have little or no possibility of defense. The state remained only an observer, if not an accomplice.
It was necessary to stop this disaster. You can’t build in the middle of murders and kidnappings. Citizens cannot live subject to terror and fear. Representatives of law enforcement must take care of their actions because they have become role models. The latent danger is that new generations think and act as if triumph in a just cause always requires force and weapons that uphold the right.
Suppression of criminal acts is not our task as civil society, but prevention and treatment of society.
That’s why education is so important, managing the basic skills to function in this world and the values that sustain and identify us as complementary human beings. One of these skills is learning to negotiate and dialogue to reach an agreement. We all have to train. And make justice and equality a reality that combats poverty and its multiple limiting manifestations, a social demand, the air we breathe, the fertile ground for our individual and collective happiness.
Peace is not in returning to what we were, but in the integration and transformation of this deep national disintegration into a new construction that unites us and allows us peace as a result of justice. (OR)
Source: Eluniverso
Mario Twitchell is an accomplished author and journalist, known for his insightful and thought-provoking writing on a wide range of topics including general and opinion. He currently works as a writer at 247 news agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the industry.
