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from "Tomorrow and the millennium" by José Saramago

As for the visions of the future, I think it would be preferable that we should begin with the concerns of the day tomorrow, when we assume that we are still almost all alive. In truth, if Remote 999, somewhere in Europe, the few papers and then there were those many theologians who had thrown predict how it would be the world after a thousand years, I bet that would totally wrong. However, something I think we would have guessed more or less: that there would be no fundamental difference between the confused human being today, who knows not and will not ask where it lead, and people are terrified that, in those days, believed to be close to the end of the world. In comparison, it will already expected a much greater number of differences of any kind between the people we are today and what happens to us, not in a thousand, not a hundred years. In other words, perhaps we have much more in common with those who have lived a thousand years ago than with the others who will live a century from now the planet ... And 'now the world he is ending at sunset is what a thousand years ago was just dawning.
However, while the world slowly starts to end, as the sun slowly starts to go down, why not dedicate ourselves to think a little 'day tomorrow, then tomorrow when we will be known almost all live happily? Instead of a number of proposals recklessly up and free use of the third millennium, which he most likely will be responsible to immediately send up in smoke, because we do not decide to make the simple ideas and projects that are affordable for any understanding? These, for example, if there is no better: a) develop starting from the rear, that is closer to the front ranks of the growing masses of people being left behind by development models in use; b) promote a new meaning of human duties, making it fully correlated to the exercise of their rights; c) live as survivors because the assets, wealth and products on the planet are not inexhaustible; d) resolve the contradiction between the claim that we are increasingly close to each other and the evidence that we are increasingly isolated and ) reduce the difference, which increases day dopo giorno, tra coloro che sanno molto e coloro che sanno poco.
Credo sia dalle risposte che daremo a questioni come queste che dipenderanno il nostro domani e il nostro dopodomani. Che dipenderà il prossimo secolo. E tutto il millennio. A proposito, torniamo alla Filosofia.