Together we stand, divided we will fall

We are children of an eternal and incessant fight for permanence. Our parents grew up when the Cold War was developing in the world, a system where only two interpretations could coexist. Most of the current leaders were formed with that intellectual framework, that's where that intrinsic fear of the enemy comes from, whatever that ghost is. Our society has not lived a single day in peace, a day without deaths, without violence. Without the desire to destroy that antagonistic being. During each conflict in history, the imaginary that only black or white could exist has been strengthened. In Cuba, Vietnam or North Korea, the important thing was that the color was defeated - color with the face and body of a person - regardless of the characteristics of the claims. Ideas were manipulated and distorted to impose ideologies.

But what happens when that enemy is not in the other person? When can we not even give him a name or a race or a political position? Oh right, the hot topic is the pandemic. Well, it will pass, it will not destroy all humanity. And after that ?, Will we return to the dichotomy between the good and the bad? To invent wars to impose models? Surely, the Cold War was nothing more than the continuation of the Second World War, which in turn was the prolongation of the problems of the First War, with other names and other protagonists. History in retrospect could refer us to conflicts of power and ego to our origins as hominids, from which we have already lost memory and from which our short biography as a species derives.

A veil of death hangs over humanity, one that does not recognize social class, race, gender, religion or political orientation. However, at this point in the story, where there are no good or bad humans, but the war is against a virus, where the fight is for the life of any person, who in turn is one of us; a light comes on in the racking of existence, an invitation to good sense, which we can either follow or ignore. I am surely ignoring what is happening in many corners of the world, but I perceive that the levels of violence between people have gone into the background. Now that triviality emerges and the essential becomes express, nature shows us that we were wrong when we prepared ourselves for a lifetime to fight those who would always be our allies at the moment that the true threat attacked, that of extra-human characteristics.

Only solidarity has helped this species survive in times of crisis. Solidarity that goes from the example of nations, such as the example of Cuba when sending a group of doctors to Italy to reinforce care in health centers, to the level of the individual, such as using common sense, getting information from sources based on science and not in rumors of faith or panic and stay at home to avoid being a vector of contagion.

A phrase by Pink Floyd sums up the previous paragraphs very well "Together we stand, divided we fall".

Darmstadt, Germany, from the room.