THE WEAKENING OF SOCIAL LINK

Abstract

The emphasized consequence of market nihilism, considered as a pathology of our times, is the weakening of social links. A main scope of this paper is to examine some indications of that weakening, as well as some consequences of these signs. The evasive character of economic power in a global order is one of that evidence. Vulnerability and uncertainty are today factors convoked to articulate human experience and teach us how perceive the world and ourselves in it as a huge receptacle of easily replaceable objects. The effect of this apprenticeship is another evidence of the deterioration of social links. To this sympton we have to add the one that comes from the tendency to expropriate the moral responsibility of individual human agents in order that instrumental rationality triumphs definitively. To revitalize social cohesion it is necessary to assume the Promethean task of interweaving those links based on solidarity and reciprocal recognition that gave rise to the political society against savagery. Far from egoism —the lash of humanity in all times— we have to appeal to a moral radicalism of resistance that consists of adopting a commitment to human dignity built with duties of solidarity and humanitarian empathy.