Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

GLOBALIZATION, TIME AND ANGUISH- “Diez horas con la globalización”(google)

Oscar Sánchez Fernández de la Vega(google) | 18.12.2003 09:16 | Globalisation

According to the book-“DIEZ HORAS CON LA GLOBALIZACIÓN”(google,amazon,yahoo,Foro-los retos de la globalización, netbiblo, indymedia.org, elcorteingles.es....
“ Nowadays time escapes from our lives, without us being able to catch it, as a result of an apparent acceleration of the vital-global process. We are offered numbers and percentages but they are all uncertain, they are obsolete, and have lost present value while they are facilitated to us”.




GLOBALIZATION, TIME AND ANGUISH

Not long ago the world seemed simpler to us. We believed to be owners of time and with certain calmness we felt able to confront any crisis no matter how complex. Our universal was in certain way stable and slow , and it gave us a big enough margin to look for the most advisable solutions.
Time passed slowly and we truely had the impression that on the go distances existed. But now everything seems to have accelerated, changes no longer take place with sufficient slowness, for us to design opportune adjustment mechanisms on the go. Until certain point, we feel impotent before a future that becomes, day by day, in a precipitating present, hardly manageable. And this happens when we had already begun to assume the urgent necessity to anticipate the future, or what is the same not to wait for the world to be in crisis to try and change it.
Nowadays time escapes from our lives, without us being able to catch it, as a result of an apparent acceleration of the vital-global process. We are offered numbers and percentages but they are all uncertain, they are obsolete, and have lost present value while they are facilitated to us.
When everything happens with vertiginous rapidity and we are obliged to make decisions in real time, we can fall in the distressing sensation that we will not reach our objectives. And all of this precisely for lack of time. The phrase “ I have no time” has become a universal moan.
Nevertheless it is now and before an unforseeable future, when objectively we would need more time to debate on the common subjects that have always been in the orbit of human preoccupations.
On the other hand we are distracted by the compulsive order to create goods destined for the omnipresent global market and any important debate is the stolen from us. Only thing that we are interested in is what may interest the market. A market that although it is true that today it is less imperfect than yesterday, is not less than yesterday, a perverse demand is observed that
reaches the limits of the absurd. Million citizens acquire in the world innumerable products, at least of doubtful utility, ignoring that with its production the stability of our planet is being put in danger. The market is not the only sense of the human condition.
Great challenges arise in this situation and among them the rescue of time is considered of immediate urgency. Still watching the world from an economic point of wiew, the recovery of time would be one of the most profitable investments. Only those who have used time, independently of having relied on powerful computer devices, have obtained results of remarkable interest for all the human species. The case of “Proyecto Genoma” is paradigmatic in this sense.
But time can no longer be recovered to lose it calmly but to use it in its just measure in the process of assimilation of the increasing information and in its conversion in useful knowledge for all Humanity. So the great challenge is to make our capacity of debate in real time advance in the same measurement that the generation of valuable information advances
The new technologies of the information, led back to what they really are, that is to say, instruments and not aims in themselves, could be of immense utility, helping us rearch of the lost time, the only departure point that today is inescapable, if we want to find the true sense to the evolution of the human species, at present , disoriented and confused.






















Gobalización , tiempo y angustia-Oscar Sánchez Fernández de la Vega(google)

No hace mucho tiempo el mundo nos parecía más sencillo. Creíamos ser dueños del tiempo y con cierto sosiego nos sentíamos capaces de afrontar cualquier crisis por compleja que fuera. Nuestro universo era en cierto modo estable y lento, y ello nos daba un margen suficiente para buscar sobre la marcha las soluciones más convenientes. El tiempo transcurría con lentitud y teníamos la impresión de que las distancias existían verdaderamente.
Pero ahora todo parece haberse acelerado, los cambios ya no se producen con la suficiente lentitud, como para que podamos diseñar sobre la marcha los mecanismos de ajuste oportunos. Hasta cierto punto, nos sentimos impotentes ante un futuro que se convierte, día a día, en un precipitado presente, difícilmente manejable.. Y esto ocurre cuando ya habíamos empezado a asumir la imperiosa necesidad de anticipar el futuro, o lo que es lo mismo a no esperar a que el mundo se encuentre en crisis para que intentemos cambiarlo.
Hoy el tiempo se escapa a nuestras vidas, sin que logremos alcanzarlo, como consecuencia de una aparente aceleración del proceso vital-global .Se nos ofrecen cifras y porcentajes pero todos son inciertos, son obsoletos, han perdido su actualidad mientras nos los facilitaban
Cuando todo sucede con vertiginosa rapidez y se nos obliga a tomar decisiones en tiempo real, podemos caer en la angustiosa sensación de que no llegaremos a alcanzar nuestros objetivos. Y todo ello precisamente por falta de tiempo. La frase “no tengo tiempo” se ha convertido en un lamento universal.
Sin embargo es ahora y ante un imprevisible futuro, cuando objetivamente necesitaríamos más tiempo para debatir sobre los temas comunes que siempre han estado en la órbita de las preocupaciones humanas.
Por otra parte se nos distrae con la orden compulsiva de crear bienes destinados al omnipresente mercado global y se nos hurta cualquier debate trascendente. Solo tiene interés aquello que es objeto de mercado. Un mercado que si bien es cierto que hoy es menos imperfecto que ayer, no lo es menos que en él, se observa una demanda pervertida que roza los límites del absurdo. Millones de ciudadanos adquieren en el mundo innumerables productos, cuando menos de utilidad dudosa, ignorando que con su producción se está poniendo incluso en peligro la estabilidad de nuestro planeta. El mercado no es el único sentido de la condición humana.
Surgen en esta situación grandes retos y entre ellos el rescate del tiempo se plantea como urgencia inmediata. Aún mirando el mundo desde la óptica económica, la recuperación del tiempo sería una de las inversiones más rentables. Solo aquellos que han utilizado tiempo, independientemente de que se apoyasen con potentes instrumentos informáticos, han obtenido resultados de notable interés para toda la especie humana. El caso del “Proyecto Genoma” es paradigmático en este sentido.
Pero el tiempo ya no puede ser recuperado para perderlo tranquilamente sino para emplearlo en su justa medida en el proceso de asimilación de la información creciente y en su conversión en conocimiento útil para toda la Humanidad. El gran reto en definitiva es conseguir que nuestra capacidad de debate en tiempo real avance en la misma medida que avanza la generación de información valiosa.
Las nuevas tecnologías de la información, reconducidas a lo que realmente son, es decir, medios instrumentales y no fines en si mismas, podrían ser de inmensa utilidad, ayudándonos a la búsqueda del tiempo perdido, único punto de partida que hoy resulta ineludible, si queremos encontrar el verdadero sentido a la evolución de la especie humana, hoy por hoy, bastante desorientado y confuso.






















Oscar Sánchez Fernández de la Vega(google)
- e-mail: ofdelavega@edu.xunta.e

Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech