Towards humanity’s realization that all are sisters and brothers in the parenthood of God, there is a lot of positive development in the globalization of human consciousness.
But if we talk of elitist economic globalization spawned by greed, we are faced with victims of war wallowing in poverty, carnage, and wreckage.
In Iraq, a children’s playground has been turned into a makeshift cemetery.
Within this decade in Australia, a huge and bustling cooperative garment factory has been forced to close shop after cheap garments from China infiltrated its market. What was once an edifice housing a global example of egalitarian economic approach providing jobs and education to thousands of families is now an empty abandoned building.
My beloved Philippines itself has been called by a Hongkong journalist as a nation of domestic servants. We complain. We protest. But it is true that although we are truly proud of our national treasures such as Lea Salonga and Manny Pacquiao, our migrant workers, thousands of them domestic helpers, are the ones keeping our economy on its toes.
Today, millions of workers in China, the United States of America, and everywhere else in our planet, have lost their jobs, facing starvation.
It is time to call a spade a spade. We are victims of our collective greed. The sooner we realize this, the quicker will our “recovery” be. Or better still, we should not recover our old self. We must allow it to die on its natural death as a consequence of our deeds and let a new self be born in its stead. A new self to build a new world economy based on the sister/brotherhood of wo/men under the parenthood of God.
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