I ask for the publication of this contribution of mine to the writing “MIGRANTEN UND DIRECTOR”.
“Dear director,
Like you, I too am a “lucky” westerner. I’m a retiree who certainly doesn’t live in gold, but unlike my other peers, I can’t complain about my condition.
That’s why I also try to do my small part to help those who are worse off. But precisely because I don’t want to look the other way, I can’t help but wonder, as she actually does, at the true causes of the planetary injustices that produce these and other inhuman and tragic “effects.”
“Solidarity”, or whatever you want to call it, is certainly a basic human value – often not casually degraded to “doing good” for instrumental reasons in the media narrative – and yet it can help alleviate certain situations for those who really do it wants to understand, the more one looks at it, the more one realizes that all of this pertains to mechanisms that are far from inescapable, but clearly identifiable (some of which she also hinted at in some of her brief notes).
For this reason, precisely as a Christian attempt, I sometimes have a doubt, well expressed by the Second Vatican Council, which warned against “offering as a gift of mercy what is due as a right of justice”. All the more so, I add, should this apply to states and large international organizations that have the means and tools to intervene structurally and effectively if they really wanted to.
In the third millennium, how is it possible to accept the fact that it would be enough to stop arms production in the world for a year, as Pope Francis also recently reminded us, in order to definitively end hunger?
How can one still fail to see that this inhumane system is designed to benefit some to the detriment of most, and that this development model plays with nationalisms and market laws masked by supposed collective interests?
Being aware of this is the first and necessary step in trying to change the paradigms that create systematic imbalances and inequalities both between and within states. “Structural” imbalances that lead to the serious and varied situations we face. I have commented on the specific issue of immigration on a number of occasions, but I find it at least tedious, if not downright embarrassing, to make it a question of party affiliation. Responsibilities, as old as they are today, are the responsibility of many, and I would say almost everyone.
Unlike wars between the poor and between the last and penultimate, which play instrumentally against each other. The system is based on individualism and the absolutization of economic convenience, the only true indicator to which everything else is subordinated, in deeds and not in proclamations.
Only if we manage to keep this image in mind (and awareness is spreading more and more) and at the same time continue the direct and concrete action of improvement in everyday life, there is real hope for salvation.
To each individual to do their part.
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