If these five reflections sound good to your ears, you are a whater even if you do not know it
1/5 —REASON. In the beginning of this 21st century human society is more saturated and accelerated than ever, so stressed that it seems a threat for humans themselves and also for the whole planet
The relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan laid the foundations of current society: by deregulating markets, Capitalism deforms to reach inhuman limits
2/5 —PLAN. To heal human society is necessary to change human behavior, and for that it is necessary to modify human ideas, which are always built by knowledge
Trump means the opposite to a decent human behavior: racist, classist and misogynist, his presidency of the most powerful country in the world was a very clear symptom of necessary changes
3/5 —TOOLS. True knowledge is a combination of reflection and experience, and critical thinking is the process of questioning beliefs, even the most sacred ones
In a time when everyone took for granted that the Sun revolved around a static Earth, Galileo insisted that our planet moved, and yet it moved
4/5 —ATTITUDE. Promotion of knowledge and critical thinking is a tool to inspire voluntary and free actions and it must avoid magical recipes or absolute solutions
Socrates condensed his wise, humble attitude in the famous phrase I know that I know nothing, indeed he put it into practice in his daily life by always preferring arguing to publishing
5/5 —GOAL. Knowledge and critical thinking have the ability to help humans to improve their relationships with themselves, with the others and with their environment
The existence of Buddha was so harmonious and balanced that he is often seen as a god, but the fact is that he was born with the name of Siddhartha and he was a human, just like us