The paradox of globalization (Marco Emanuele)

Just trying to stop our competitive race we can realize the urgent need to reflect on what we are becoming. Competition belongs to our nature as human beings as much as the cooperation and dialogue; competition without cooperation and dialogue is "institutionalized conflict", is war.

Today more than ever it is necessary to look at the evolving worlds beyond our certainties, trying to know and accepting the risk of knowledge that is continuous problematization of what we are. It's in knowing, in fact, that we innovate, finding ourselfes in each "other one".

Competitive, technocratic and non-political globalization puts us in front of an apparent paradox; we speak of "open societies" and we globalize while we build walls (cultural and material), we are afraid of the "different human", we are immersed in a culture of separation and linearity, in a culture of fear and security and we do not have an adequate political culture to govern increasingly complex societies.

We are strangers to freedom as liberation if we continue to believe that our freedom ends where the other's begins.