Among the feelings we can harbor in our conscience, being a citizen is one of the most honorable; although many confused people forget this and put themselves in the barbarian’s shoes.
I speak of a citizen not only as a citizen, but also as a person who prides himself on being a good person, who in other times and in the same place has been recognized and admired as the great mediator of conflicts and the sincere spirit of civil society. disasters.
In the war of individual and social values in which we are immersed, education, honesty, honor, homeland, civilization and many other concepts related to them are deteriorating and losing their validity and validity.
Saving such values, which may seem old and obsolete to us at first, is imposed as one of the best remedies to facilitate coexistence in today’s and tomorrow’s society; knowing how to be with reason and knowing how to be are once again reconciled.
In today’s Spain, where prohibitions are issued even to set the alarm clock, there is a need for a change towards what we can call “natural education”, the breeding ground of civic foundations based on the natural process of coexistence of rational beings.
Not so many years ago, what was called “social sanction” by sociology and psychology acted as “natural education,” a concept that brought together components that normalized collective behavior and whose ultimate goal was to control the actions of others. It is supported by norms that the majority of society accepts as sufficient.
From this non-legal enforcement platform, we can act as moderators of values and their consequences, without needing to resort to legislation as the sole coercive measure.
Today, critical mass rears its head in the face of social disapproval of a lot of rude behavior that tends to disrupt healthy relationships between neighbors. The streets turn into a dumping ground of rude people trying to stand out among themselves as the most shabby and immoral.
Gone are the days when any citizen of this country faced socially reprehensible behavior if a minor was seen smoking or drinking; the cheap, brainless man who skins the helpless old man with insults, or the pimp on duty who mistreats an animal.
Becoming a citizen, a good citizen, becomes a real miracle because, in addition to putting yourself at risk, you can look like a bad guy.