Progress? What progress?

I always say that progress cannot be defined, because if it is defined, the possibility of "progressing" is automatically prohibited.

Now, many apostles of the alleged progress tell us that progress technologically, produce more and more, move more quickly, accumulate more wealth, communicate instantly with others, and conquer the world, means "progress", and that, as such, it will create happier and realized human beings.

This is so absurd, that it can only be explained from the capitalist logic that a few enjoy, with the work of all others.

Since we are born, modernism has taught us that we must progress, defining progress such as having more and more material goods. It is the operating system that is inserted in home, school and university education. The engineer is much more than a worker. Does that make any sense?

Thinking about the future steals the possibility of living the present and contemplating the wonders surrounding each human. Progress cannot be an objective in itself. Technology brutalize us as human beings. The idea that everything must improve permanently creates a sensation of subtle and intolerable anguish. The idea that contemplation is an act of lazyness, eliminates the possibility of connecting with nature. Progress alienates us to the point of removing ourselves.

We move faster, but we don't know where we are going, and then, we lose the purpose of life. Why do we continue to accelerate?

Because the system forces us to be competitive, it puts us in a jungle in which everything is worth to remain competitive. What am I living like this? Is the accumulation of material goods the objective of being alive? There are no visible whips or bosses, but there is a demand that comes from within, which makes us our own exploiters. And this is usually called "freedom." Personal overcoming is our boss. The subject perceives himself as "free", but in reality, he is subject to a career that must fulfill, under penalty of being a failed. All life has become a career for productivity and to improve performance. We just have to strive enough and we will be as the millionaires that we admire so much. No one needs to watch if you self -watch yourself. And this is usually called "freedom." They have convinced us that we are working to achieve our dreams, in exchange for living a strenuous life, where fatigue is venerated as a way of demonstrating that you are striving enough. The answer to all the questions of life, according to the capitalist system, is the increase in productivity, and as a consequence, to the increase in the profitability of the shareholders of the companies in which you are working. The demand is continuous, and as a result of that demand, consciousness and the individual lose their identity. When he/she realizes that it is a simple link of a chain that enriches few, it is usually late and is already very tired to recover and start over. You were an effective man/woman, but in exchange for your connection with nature, in exchange for your creativity, in exchange for your integrity. Everything is measured in terms of loss and gain. Everything is productivity. We are all tools. All is tradable. Everything is immediate satisfaction of needs. Nothing is aimed at making links. Social media magnify the fact that success is accumulation of goods, and many see this as a splendid form of "freedom." The result is a totally alienated individual, who measures the value of the other based on seeing what I can get from him/her, instead of seeing him/her as somebody to cooperate. The ability to empathize is lost, and takes distance from the other. The other has the same problems as us, but, as we cannot get anything in a negotiation, there is no possibility to cooperate.

What really means being alive?

Many years are missing, perhaps centuries for an anarchist model based on small mutual groups to collaborate with each other.

Being alive means living with a purpose. You can't live 80 times the same year and say one lived. But it cannot be expected to spend centuries before humanity realizes that resources are limited and that we must organize sustainably, as proposed by an anarchist mutual model based on anarco-professionalism.

A mutual that combines the different professions, through which the individual does not lose control of what he/she produces, that does not separate the work of the product, which, ultimately, lives with the purpose of maintaining the sustainable mutual for generations by exercising his/her profession, which is simply what he/she enjoys in every minute of his/her life.

Will continue.