Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Quiroga - 119

 THE STATE OF THE WORLD

To the extent that rancor and resentment take root in the soul of our humanity and adopt its varied and disguised manifestations in social relationships, and to the extent that we normalize this state of things, convincing ourselves that it is all this and that changes of utopian ideas should be discarded to assume that this is the game and that it would be better to learn to play it and nothing else, we are also adding barbarity, in such small and hypocritical doses in everyday life, that they seem too harmless to us, considering, that's right, the atrocities that the powers that be commit.

The world that we treat as an abstract entity is the sum of the type of person we are in the privacy of our homes, in our close relationships, in the thoughts we create, in the justifications we present for the mistakes we make, in the comments we make with an air of wisdom, but which are pure theory, far from our experiences.

For the unique body of existence, which is the human kingdom, the little or much barbarism or civilization that each of us practices in the anonymity of our hearts is what defines the state of the world.

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