The Ukraine-Russian war, the attack on Israel in October and now the state of affairs that the conflict between Israel and Iran assumed, become for many people firm
signs that "the world is ending
. "
The first human being stood on his feet in Ethiopia and from there he walked to Iran and Iraq, he hunted and farmed in those lands for the first time. Then, he set off to other lands, “probably” (in the words of the English writer and Nobel Prize winner, William Golding, “almost certainly”)
destroying every Neanderthal he found along the way.
With the extermination, and the violent or more or less peaceful fusion with them, all vestiges of the concept of human races ended. The Neanderthals were one, and the Sapiens, us, another. Now we are all Sapiens and we live in the Holocene. Some people still carry genetic remains of Neanderthals in their DNA, but it is information that, according to anthropologist Yuval Harari, is better to keep to yourself, lest racists come later saying that those who have Neanderthal genes are better or those who do not have them. .
Telling you here that we are one race, the human race, seems like a truism to me and I suppose it should be studied in school. However, it doesn't hurt to refresh it. The human being presents external changes due to his adaptation to the environment where he lives: skin, hair, height. If we are champions in anything, it is in our flexibility to adapt. More or less as Darwin proclaimed in his time,
whoever adapts best to the environment will be the strongest.
Be careful: Charles Darwin did not mean that the strongest would be the best, nor the most empathetic, nor the most ethical of the surviving specimens. We are.
We went through a pandemic that took away many people and it seems that
we learned nothing about self-destruction.
To the wars, we can add everything we have been experiencing since the summer. The mosquitoes, the endless rains, the climate change that has us baffled. The fact that eating costs increasingly more expensive in Argentina and in almost all countries on the globe; The pandemic was a factor in global impoverishment, and it is difficult to lift one's head. And if we continue adding, we add the extreme right that sprouts on the planet like weeds.
The feeling of the end of the world is among us: we see it daily in memes, in nervous jokes, everywhere. Every time we are going to undertake a more or less superfluous expense, we question whether we should save, given the seriousness of the economic situation, or if we should spend it in case tomorrow, when we open our eyes, there are missiles like stars flying across the sky. It is far from me to find the answer. What I can say is that the world may be ending, but it's not over yet.