The new cultures

We must all educate ourselves to assimilate the ability to change and, step by step, to build those cultures that help us to live the future. In my opinion there are four.

The first is the culture of brotherhood. It is not the culture of fraternity, with which we mean something different, much more difficult for today's man, because being truly brothers is part of A different culture, which probably only Christianity and faith can give. Instead of believing to be not "truly brothers" but all men, all the same, all destined to inherit the same kingdom of God can make us think that it is also united to very distant people, of habits other than ours.

The second is the culture of interdependence: spiritual and material. If we want development, we need to be all developed, if we want a peaceful and peaceful life, everyone must have a peaceful and peaceful life in peace, and peace is not divisible. Or we are all in peace, or our world will no longer be in peace. This is the culture of material interdependence. And, for spiritual interdependence, if we want to be children of God, if we want to get to the kingdom of God, we must try to get there together.

The third is the culture of the value of diversity; it is a good thing to have the same ideas, but it is a good thing to also have different ideas. The value of diversity means not ghettoizing people, not transferring all those of color to a certain place, do not transfer all those who have a certain disease in a certain place, do not ghetto people according to the type of person who is.

The fourth idea is the culture of a single solidarity. solidarity must have it with all and all together we must live solidarity. Concretize the idea of brotherhood, the equality of rights and duties, the uniqueness of the human lineage are necessary destinations to overcome the division of the world, to break down barriers, to consider us all part of the only human family


Giorgio Ceragioli
From "Project" (now "NP"), 1992, n. 10