Prologue of "Peoples, Drugs and Serpents"

Danilo Anton

The contemporary world has created its own more or less dogmatic ideological systems that are taken for real, and therefore, according to cultural norms, are not matter of discussion. Some were developed, promoted and defended by academics, scientists and others belonging to the political and religious elites of the dominant countries.

The global reach of communications has spread these views favoring a widespread conviction about its virtually absolute and final validity.

The philosophical basis of the system is a reductionist and evolutionary view of the universe; of life and human culture, largely generated by the expansion of the industrial revolution from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present.

Moreover, in this period, many aspects of patriarchal societies of domination that prevailed since millennia ago remained intact.

The combined result of both sets of ideas and values ​​has resulted in disjointed approaches to nature, including the belief that humans can survive independently of the planet they inhabit and the ecosystems that surround them.

It may not be as important to know how real or inappropriate these concepts are, but rather what are the consequences of imposing them at all levels of education and mass media.