LIMITS: the limit is perceived as an obstacle rather than an opportunity to confront with the concreteness of reality. The lack of limits (eg time) can delay the solution of the problems endlessly invalidating the propositional meaning of life itself.
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE: democracy is itself a limit, a limitation of individual freedom because it forces us to decide by majority and not by the best or following the strongest, the bravest or the most intelligent; It should not, however, be a limit to the extension of democracy because democracy is the essence of social life. Democracy (majority) must undertake to define the limits, in dependence on the extent of the problems (whether local or global); go beyond this limit means no longer being able to handle problems safeguarding, at the same time, the democratic principle.
In each area there is a limit not to be crossed, below some attention topics that imply the need of limits:
- HUMAN LIFE: man’s life is limited, but not infinitely extendable while using bionic organs, death marks the time period in which to achieve our goals and happiness is fully accomplished in achieving this last. If we lived forever we may not fully realize ourselves, nor be happy, therefore, the time limit is necessary and indispensable in human history.
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: For a fruitful competition, collaboration and exchange between men and machines it is necessary that even robots have a limit (eg potential). If the quotient of human intelligence is now an average of 100, cannot be establish a positive relationship with a robot that has a far superior level, otherwise will be established a relationship of subordination: master (robot) and slave (Human). It should not be a brake to knowledge, but there must be a technological limit to allow free survival, conscious and primus inter pares of the human race, so democratic. Technocracy (an unlimited technology) threatens democracy because it chooses the majority and the majority does not always choose the best.
- MIGRANTS: to try to address and solve this problem is required, but not sufficient, to define a limit to the hospitality in each territory, but must be also guaranteed the survival of people having positive conditions in their habitat. In this regard, for a fruitful management of the problem, must be defined other two limits:
- of the wars taking place in their countries
- of the exploitation of their local resources, from other countries, so that migrants can remain living at best in their territories.
- GROWTH: growth must also have a limit, because in a finite world, only wrong illusion of a few people can believe in unlimited growth. With a limit to the growth, we have to redistribute, in a democratic way, the development opportunities for helping overcome existing inequalities. Instead, we assists, again, to the supremacy of the capitalist development model that has, in growth without limits, its raison to continues to produce wealth for a few and misery for many.
Today there are not the conditions to implement an effective global democracy and then set world shared limits, so any independent reality must take, in solitude, decisions on these issues.
But when you start? Immediately, otherwise there will not be a democratic change, but only a violent change that perhaps is already underway and is spreading.
Only in the face of a conscious existence of global threats, perhaps, the world’s democratic governments would be able to identify and implement solutions to counter this violent change.
Therefore is necessary for those who knows to tell the truth and for everyone of us to keep alive the mandatory changes.
In collaboration with Enrico Dioli (Valtellina nel Futuro)
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