Drag institutions towards governance by and for the people

From the treasury of collective memory, the number 2015 is usually associated with the year in which the United Nations, in an agreement signed by 193 countries, decides to create the 2030 Agenda. The objective: that the signatory States bear in mind that they must put an end to poverty, end hunger, guarantee health and well-being and curb climate change, among other objectives.

The need to design a program of these characteristics clearly shows the lack of social awareness that was cultivated by the liberal capitalist system, developed based on the axioms that Adam Smith collects in his famous

For more than 300 years, an educational model has been imposed whose ultimate goal is to convert citizens into subjects of consumption and production.

To this we must add that, since the Bretton Woods agreements (which, in the midst of World War, refounded capitalism), almost all national and supranational entities are slaves of economic corporations.

Bearing this in mind, it is easier to identify the problem we are facing.

On countless occasions, the countries attached to the 2030 Agenda carry out actions and promote projects that contradict the commitments they have made.

Despite this, the Sustainable Development Goals can be achieved, but from a global citizen movement that drags institutions towards governance by and for the people.

Otherwise, this project is on its way to becoming a bouquet of good intentions, as happened with the Millennium Goals set in the year 2000.

In any case, one of the great differences with respect to previous times is that, for example, citizens did not perceive the effects of climate change as intensely as they do today.

This went from being a problem that the scientific community had been alerting for decades to an incontestable reality and present in our day to day.

Hardly anyone doubts that the human species is in grave danger of extinction.

Even more so if we continue to feed a productive model exhausted for the majority and that only interests a few, instead of feeding every child who dies of malnutrition in the world every five seconds, according to UN reports.

And if this production model only interests a few, how can they impose it on the masses?

The answer can be found in the famous

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “Of the extreme inequality of conditions and fortunes;

of the diversity of passions and talents;

from the useless arts, from the pernicious arts, from the frivolous sciences, would come a multitude of prejudices equally contrary to reason, happiness and virtue;

The chiefs would be seen to foment, by disuniting them, everything that can weaken united men, everything that can give society an appearance of apparent harmony and sow a seed of real discord, everything that can inspire mutual distrust in the different orders and a reciprocal hatred for the opposition of their rights and interests, and consequently strengthen the power that contains them all”.

Definitely,

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There will always be stubborn people who insist on the utopian to achieve the goals we pursue, but we have the possibility of facing these general mood crises with a good attitude

However, we have many cases in history that determine that thinking as a species, leaving our differences aside and opting for a brave attitude that enhances our knowledge and experiences, acts as an antidote to this kind of scenario.

Martin Luther King gave a good account of this by leading the movement for civil rights in the United States.

And this despite the emergence of social actors who insisted on the impossibility of achieving, with a non-violent struggle, full access to equality before the law.

There will always be stubborn people who are utopian in achieving the goals we pursue, but we have the possibility of facing these general mood crises with a good attitude.

Reverend King did so, and united the wills of those most affected by injustice around a common goal, which allowed reaching a historical milestone overcoming the illegitimate wills of the elites of the moment.

The abolition of slavery in the US, the liberation of India from the British Empire led by Mahatma Gandhi, the right to vote for women or the legalization of divorce also seemed like chimeras in their respective times.

Alliances forged around strong leaders, championing laudable principles, are those that have conquered rights that are hard to imagine just a few decades ago.

Those great people, around whom the forces to change the world gathered, faced the same question that the reader of this article faces.

Which path will you choose?

Because it all comes down to that choice.

David Ramil Eiriz

is the founder and president of Fuertes Razones.

Since March, the non-profit entity has had an agreement with the Galician Federation of Municipalities and Provinces and the National Distance Education University (UNED) to train the political and technical staff of the 313 Galician municipalities.

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