The Future We don’t Want

Life in the era of the uncertain future manifests its inevitable depressive tone. It is as if time could no longer mobilize any hope. The sense is shortened on the present, deserting the long term and, in this way, finds itself without a horizon. It lives only on immediacy. The effects of this phenomenon are felt at every level: in politics, in culture, in consumption, and in relationships. Is there a way out? Knowing what you don’t want to encounter is already a first step. Above all, if this knowledge turns its attention to the present, with a clear project of amendment. The future we do not want is the present to which we learn to say no, in its pseudo-political, pseudo-cultural, pseudo-relational, and hyper-consumerist manifestations. This means that only from the present is it possible to give birth to an emancipated image of the future, since it is the present itself that must be emancipated, here and now, from the regressive forces to which it gives itself up at the moment in which it sees no other prospect than the unilateral one of technological innovation.