Hernan Vargas: Western civilization model is a disease for humanity

Press MinComunas/Karina Depablos – During the opening of the workshop “What does it mean to think “from” Latin America,” the Vice Minister for Communal Economy, Hernan Vargas, assured that it is a fact, not yet recognized and assumed by the population, that the current civilizational model of domination is not viable.

“We must look in detail, although it is complicated because we have modernity in our heads and bodies. It is impossible to make things more humane if this Western civilizational model continues. This model came here to dominate us by force, to colonize us. It set up a hegemony on what was ours. They presented us with a set of things we assumed, and we believed, and today it is difficult for us to dismantle this from our minds, from our heads, and even from our feelings”, he said.

According to Vice-Minister Hernan Vargas, at this moment, the central disease that humanity has is modernity.

“The most dangerous disease is the unseen one. The one misdiagnosed, and that kills you inside until it is too late. It is impossible to have equality, good living, and sovereignty with this civilization model we have. Venezuela has been an example of the fulfillment of the agenda of the Millennium Development Goals; it has fulfilled everything. However, this agenda is not viable either. It is a model of the few, not of the many. Twelve years ago, to sustain everyone’s way of life 12 years ago, it was necessary to explode the earth by extracting oil. What we have to identify is that this is not feasible. If we do not identify it, we will continue to skate. It is not possible to cope with both things”, he pointed out.

Likewise, the spokesman commented that the de-colonial exercise and study promoted in Venezuela, as a State policy, must be taken to concrete areas that directly affect the people.

“The civilizational model is in crisis, and it must be recognized. The years of crisis in Venezuela must serve us to reflect, study, and then share this to propose solutions. We have to identify that, with the crisis, it has been possible to break or move those things that we have fixed in our heads and that it is difficult to move them. Our internal contradictions have also become more acute. For example, we continue to teach in school that the goal is to progress. We have never said that this pattern of progress that tells us that we have to move from the countryside to the city is wrong, that the countryside and everything it represents is a backwardness, and that we must leave it behind if we want to progress. It is time to say that this logic is opposed to life because based on a growth model that exhausts the conditions for the reproduction of life on the planet. Therefore, it is wrong,” he said.

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