Sociocultural Crisis: Return to Humanity and The Real Economy

Abstract

Fabrizio Pezzani

We are facing an anthropological crisis, not economic. The debate on economics and its method of study cannot be divorced from a correct reading of history that in the long term tends to repeat itself, as G.B vico had envisions; the nature of man never changes, constantly Oscillating between cain and Abel, and it would seem that only pain leads man to wisdom. The single technical-rational thought markes us see the future as the only guarantee of success and we therefore cannot understand the correlations between causes and effects in our history. We act as if the past had been erased and as if history had never manifested similar situations to those in which we find ourselves today. The toxic consequences of this model are socio-cultural inequality, poverty, moral degradation, a raging and permanent conflict, lack of imagination and creativity. Is all this due to an incorrect adjustment of the problems of man as a person not as an object (anthropological crisis)? “ once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means and without the common good its ultimate end, it risks destroying weath and creating poverty “ (caritas in veritate, chapter II, 21). The system taken to extremes created a concentration of financial wealth that is unparalleled in history with a sort of hegemonic senate that is superordinate to individual states. We have to return to the man and to a welfare system in which healthcare is fundamental because in this way we can understand the solidarity and we can build a real “societas” – the world in old latin means “allance” – and this is a foundation of our happiness.

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