A society is evaluated, even by its own members in their personal experience, according to the way it treats its vulnerable strata. It is one of the conditions that every human being must face at key moments in life. The terrible figures that show us the scale of the loss of human lives should make us think and redefine our priorities. Suffering is never an isolated phenomenon, experienced individually. To love the other is already to be aware that it is by the other that we are born, it is by the other that we live, and it is by the other that we are judged. Without this fundamental consciousness, human morality cannot claim any spiritual or transcendent source whatsoever. With each humanitarian crisis seems to come the real specter of the trivialization of human suffering, as well as the threat real to become what we don’t like, insensitive and fleeing beings. Cross the mental course, which leads from the position of simple witness, to that of complicity by reflex of the diversion of glance, can change this look when it comes back to us, to impose on us a new definition of our personal journey. This constitutes a huge risk, that of not being able to recognize oneself.
This is also the door open to the manipulation of hearts, which can lead to accepting fictitious definitions about ourselves or our memory. The sick, the suffering, those who became figures because of their age, their social status, their ethnicity, their physical or mental health, all of these vulnerable people who have to face the coldness of conventions are none other than ourselves. While we lose this look that comes from the truth of the heart, we force the acceptance of a lie that steals the meaning of everything,
if not the most immediate short-term needs, obliterating the nobility of our existence.
We are all born vulnerable. The human must from the first second of his existence be taken care of by those who love him. Erect systems that ignore or pretend to ignore these obvious truths and ramifications, and sell the illusion of individualism as a solution,
amounts to getting people used to perpetuating and maintaining an ontological lie, which is like pulling a tense spring that will surely snap on the fingers organizers of such anti-human adventures. The Corona virus, despite its virulence, is only one example in the multitude of fallout from the climate disaster, which the global community must confront.
Africa is perceived by the world as an island of resistance before the assault of this scourge. Let us not forget that Malaria alone causes hundreds of thousands in Africa, up to millions of victims each year, including many children. If we were also able to find a solution for Malaria in Africa with the same impetus as that which deploys with zeal when it is the Covid-19. Africans would like to be heard, and their questions, when to the injustice in this report obviously based on inequality, are still waiting for a response. Apparently Africans are still subject to validation standards which are not required of anyone else. Attempt to give meaning to suffering by its mechanical deconstruction, without including the need for the awakening of compassion in the other than this suffering must provoke, constitutes not only a lack of intelligence, but the addition of an element of mental torture to the context of the pain subjectively experienced by the sufferer. Suffering is also a call to contribution, which resonates and makes emotional and spiritual dimensions work on the part of each and everyone, in order to soothe it as much as possible. To be deprived of this trans-personal dimension of the relation to the suffering of the other that exists in us, can provoke reactions in chain in the psychological health of an entire society.
Facing Corona, vulnerability is universal
