The world is not a business poster

By: Omar Olazábal Rodríguez: I remember years ago, in the 90's of the last century, when that prophet who predicted so many things uttered some words that should have fallen like a bucket of cold water for the North American establishment: "this world is UNGOVERNABLE". The great powers celebrated at full volume the fall of the USSR and someone proclaimed "the end of history". Almost 30 years have passed and no country can assume the title of gendarme of our planet.

From that pre-clarity and analytical acuity that Fidel transmitted to us, we observe how the world is moving these days. The insults and the direct and indirect swarm, as if international relations were a circus scenario and not a broad spectrum of political systems, crises and tragedies. What little seriousness these Summits and high-level meetings convey, where they do not know what to do with each other, or with each other, or all against one. Where the media show translates only into offensive twits and not in necessary clarifications to resolve the differences.
 
And it is that you can not lead in this world as if countries were companies and humans simple employees. The art of politics has been designed for thousands of years, when the councils of elders, and read well, advice, not individualities, decided the destinies of their peoples. The wisdom that provides the experience in the lides of daily politics can not be supplanted by attacks of rage or pirouettes, much less with demonstrations of machismo when giving a handshake, because it can cause the "salute" to grasp with his thumb and leave a visible mark in which you try to show off.

We are living a few days predictable two years ago. Someone who pretends to be a leader, the first thing to do is not to be considered a chosen by the gods, nor to think that his word is the law. Much less be surrounded by people who have only shown over the years a desire for prominence, masking a super-nationalism and whose fundamental feature is the contempt for others in the world.

The inconsistency in the arguments and the constant threat are "attributes" of chiefs of small urban tribes, not of statesmen. Even in mafia manuals, we see distinguished leaders with different ways and listen carefully before making decisions. Therefore, by ignoring what is already written, they commit nonsense every hour. The worst of all is that, behind every error, human beings suffer. Families separated by decisions taken at random in "raids" of the immigration bodies are already beginning to claim victims through the suicide of those who can not bear to get away from their loved ones.

The constant allusion to the negative effects of migration has stimulated the ultranationalist hordes of the United States that were somewhat contained since the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s, but have always been ready to go on the attack at the first knocking of its leaders. The press narrates events in which someone offends others for the simple fact of speaking in Spanish, or of guards who arrest two citizens for speaking in that language.

The world is not a cartel of companies nor a game of poker. To walk through life offended can only bring about unanimous contempt. But we must warn that it is very dangerous. History has innumerable examples of that type. It is enough to read what happened in Germany in 1934, a year after the electoral victory of Nazism, when anger was unleashed against everything that was not Aryan.

One of the foundational philosophical foundations of this ideology is the book "The Science of Power" by the Anglo-Irish sociologist Benjamin Kidd. In that manual of ideological terror, Kidd writes:

"Our civilization has been born as a result of a process of force without parallels in the history of the race. For countless ages the combative European male has overflowed through Europe in successive waves of advance and conquest, overcoming, exterminating, crushing, dominating, taking possession. The fittest, who have survived these successive waves of conquest, are the most fit for the law of force and by virtue of a process of military selection, probably the longest in history, the hardest, probably the most relevant to the that the race has been subdued ... that man has introduced the spirit of war into all institutions ... and the belief that force is the ultimate principle of the world ... by force has conquered the world and by force controls it ... "