Western society would be characterized by the empire of hedonism and nihilism in the face of the critical spirit and the culture of effort of the 20th century, as it is made up of consumer-dependent individuals on material goods who make up a homogeneous, uncritical mass that is easy to manipulate by the classes. leaders.
To produce these consumer goods, world leaders would have opted for the unbridled consumption of raw materials and fossil energies that fuel the productive machinery, ignoring deforestation, unbridled pollution and the waste generated, with which we would already be immersed in a dangerous maelstrom. increase in CO2 that will cause catastrophic effects in the next decade.
Likewise, the society of one-dimensional individuals that we are forging would be relegating affectivity and intergenerational transmission, replacing it with social networks. Thus, these aseptic-looking platforms would have emerged to end citizen solidarity by creating virtual realities, a kind of magical realism that allows us to realize our dreamlike desires and protects and isolates us from harsh reality.
This society would be cohesive through the use of English as a universal language and the Internet to ensure instant communication between the inhabitants of the world. Likewise, through cyber manipulation, the different Governments monitor the communications of their citizens in real time through their metadata and through the indiscriminate dissemination of fake news they ensure that we live immersed in disorientation and immersed in existential doubt.
This, combined with the implementation of millions of facial recognition cameras, would have de facto caused the advent of the global Big Brother, (the all-seeing eye), with the confessed objective of preventing the awakening of the critical spirit of the masses in a medium future.
On the other hand, a possible entry into recession of the main world driving economies and the collapse of the tower of universal globalization will cause a traumatic shock in the current consumerist society that will force it to undergo a deep catharsis and metanoia and will make it review the foundations that until now supported it. Thus, the conjunction of centripetal and centrifugal forces would be configuring the unconnected puzzle of ordered chaos that is brewing and that could lead to the appearance of a critical mass sufficient to induce a qualitative change in current society.
Consequently, the collective imagination must adopt a new way of thinking and a proactive attitude in the face of the emergence of the new teleonomic scenario that is approaching and that will be marked by high volatility and the concatenation of crises. Finally, after the appearance of a new individual who will emerge from the ashes of globalization, society will head towards the search for a new utopia reaffirmed in a solid critical consciousness and supported by values such as degrowth, solidarity, the circular economy, sustainable development and respect for the environment.
