Unidad de Investigación en Medicina Basada en Evidencias, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, Ciudad de México, México.
Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex. 2021;78(1):75-84. doi: 10.24875/BMHIM.20000160.
"Societies unveil their entrails during a crisis and hide or conceal them in normal situations" is the premise of this essay that offers a propositional critique of the foundations of civilization by characterizing some revelations from the COVID-19 pandemic that seriously compromises the globalized world. Especially the neoliberal myth as the only way of human progress, and technological development as the essence of social progress and main reason for scientific research. Among the significant revelations is the dismantling of the Welfare state and public health services, which render the population's vulnerability in the face of pandemics. Planetary devastation favors its emergence, and the correlation between the despondency of human activities and the (fleeting) improvement of planetary life, which denotes the radical incompatibility between the permanence of neoliberal capitalism that degrades everything and preservation and care of life in its infinite diversity, including human life! Another notion of human progress is proposed: the rise of values involved in the coexistence, and the spiritual, intellectual, and moral growth of the human condition in harmony with the planetary ecosystem. Regarding the deep reasons for the catastrophe, it is argued that it is humanity itself by its way of being, thinking, acting, living together and relating to the planet. Therefore, the conclusion reached is the urgent need to undertake an alternative path in the search for another possible world, hospitable and dignifying for all forms of life.
“社会在危机时刻揭示其内在本质，而在正常情况下则将其隐藏或掩盖”，这是本文的前提，通过对 COVID-19 大流行所揭示的一些现象进行命题批判，对文明的基础提出了质疑。这些现象严重影响了全球化世界，尤其是新自由主义作为人类进步唯一途径的神话，以及技术发展作为社会进步和科学研究主要原因的理念。其中一个重要的启示是福利国家和公共卫生服务的瓦解，这使得人口在面对大流行病时变得脆弱。地球的破坏有利于其出现，以及人类活动的沮丧和（短暂）改善行星生命之间的相关性，这表明新自由主义资本主义的永久性与保护和关爱生命的无限多样性之间存在根本冲突，包括人类生命！本文提出了另一种人类进步的概念：涉及共存的价值观的兴起，以及人类在与行星生态系统和谐共处的条件下的精神、智力和道德成长。关于这场灾难的深层原因，有人认为是人类自身的存在方式、思维方式、行为方式、共同生活方式以及与地球的关系导致了这场灾难。因此，本文得出的结论是，迫切需要在寻找另一个可能的世界的过程中，承担另一种替代路径，这个世界对所有生命形式都是友好和有尊严的。
