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02/04/2020 - PANDEPENDENCE

It is uplifting to see how at 8.00 pm in various corners of the world people go out to their balconies to applaud those who these days are hard at work so that life can be, if not normal, at least bearable.

Healthcare personnel, cleaning staff, supermarket stockers, vendors, drivers, loaders, post-persons... The coronavirus has brought to the forefront many of the jobs and workers that we normally take for granted but which today are, interestingly, considered essential.

This pandemic, in all its brutality and pain, has highlighted the degree of interdependence in our society. Society is organic, it is an organism in which all parts are equally necessary. All executives or bankers or shareholders in the world are worthless to me, if I don't have someone to take the food to the supermarket, or someone cleaning the bathrooms in Wall Street offices.

In the same way that the epidemic is total (pan-demia), hopefully we can recognize that society is not based on the ideas like the “survival of the fittest”, “every man for himself”, or the myth of the self-made person. We live in a pan-dependency (a total interdependence). Recognizing and accepting this will help us build a more egalitarian society.

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