A shattered nest with no mechanical clocks

Abstract

This paper tries to portray a world to propose another. I know that the ambition is great, but I trust that the probabilities, although still slim, will evolve for the better. The portrait of the current world, the one in which we are living, could perfectly be drawn with any of the various allegories with which the pandemic state in which we find ourselves has been represented; a face mask, for example. We have travelled the whole world so much; so much and so many we have wanted to know; so great have been the mass and the speed of the movement, that its increasing inertia and the force of its dragging, has almost eliminated the sense of prudence: the virtue that Aristotle, in his Moral to Nicomacheus, attributed to man that it is generally the one who knows how to deliberate well. And for that, to recover the correct deliberation lost, education has always shown itself to be the best of human tools. The defense of the biosphere now makes it, furthermore, especially necessary. Two more allegories have been added here. One for a sketch of today's world: a shattered nest on the brink of worthlessness. And another as a possibility of returning to forgotten prudence: the replacement of electric clocks by mechanical ones

Keywords: Biosfere; Rachel Carson; Ecological crisis; Autopoiesis; Deforestation; Homo suadens; Educacional constructivism.