Is there ambiguity about the after-postmodern environmental issues?

The post-modern efficiency is gone with the end of the 20^th century.

At those days environmental issues had been seen as “dreamer issues”.

The efficiency of those days was good enough to look at the environmental issues as something not useful, against the progress, even with some international agreement about it.

Nowadays, the world look for new efficiencies, the world has much more scientific knowledge than before, environmental issues does not seem so unrealistic.

Nevertheless, some ambiguity is still around…

We see new agreements, too much talking, but we feel yet something insecure in the air…

Is this ambiguity an ironical “residual matter” of post-modern era? Or it can be a signal of new ways to solve the environmental matter?

We do not have the answer for while…   

   

In after-postmodern times research can be animal-free

Since 2012, the Lush Prize supports animal-free testing. In 2015, one of the several awarded researchers was the Brazilian biologist Bianca Marigliani from The Federal University of Sao Paulo. She found a way to replace the use of fetal bovine serum, obtained from bovine fetuses during slaughter of pregnant cows. It is the most common animal-derivative used as medium supplement to several kind of researches. Beyond the ethical problems, the uses of this bovine serum can also misleading results concerning allergic reactions. The work of Marigliani proposes that the serum can be replaced by in vitro methods without animal suffering.

This work shows that the scientific research can, at the same time, preserve animals from suffering and improve the quality of biological products.  

Narrative Medicine is after-postmodern efficiency in healthcare

In the postmodern period of history, the advances in technology became the main way and objective in healthcare. So, anamnesis and physical examination were more and more let aside and almost ignored. It is important to recognize several achievements of that kind of thing. But, in human history, many times when we gain something, we lose something. That was the “trade” then in healthcare…

Nevertheless, in after-postmodern times, those efficiencies don’t work anymore. It is impossible to provide indifferently to everybody all kind of test without looking singularly to each person. It is not economically sustainable. Another thing is that when we look too much for the tests we lose the human contingencies or the human being as a whole. So, even the improvement of lifetime did not avoid the complaining of patients and health professionals about dehumanization in medicine. It seems that something is wrong, or something is missing…

Narrative Medicine is a way to recover something almost lost in health care, and beyond that it is a new paradigm. But, it is a paradigm inserted in Complex Thinking, Transdisciplinarity and the Singularity of Guattari. It is not an imposed paradigm, but a dialogical paradigm open to listening and discussion. It doesn’t deny the scientific advances but it situates them into the human context. 

After-postmodern was not predictable

A hundred years ago no one could expect, or predict, what could be the 21^st century in its very first decades.

Optimistic people dreamt about a great future with solutions for everything.

Eschatological predictions thought that could be foresighted apocalyptical events.

But the after-postmodern period seem to be something in between…

The Cybernetic development is beyond science fiction, but the picture that is in front of us is also beyond, but “beyond modern” and “beyond postmodern”… it is “post post-modern”…

A hundred years ago, modern people in modern times thought that “modernity” was something invincible, because it has the progress as a strong tool. But today we see that progress is a relative word that does not explain all reality. 

No doubt, we are in the After-Postmodern Era

The so called “efficiency of globalization” cannot do anything for the solution of the huge problem of refugees. We are not saying that none is doing anything, but that the “dream” of the end of the 20^th century, a efficiently global market leading to peace, does not work anymore. A Macro Shift is on the way…  

Post-Economy of 21st Century

Since the beginning of the 21^st century the world is in a transition, a macro-shift to a new period of history, a new era, after the postmodern period corresponding to the second half of 20^th century. An economic crisis started in 2008 and it is still not over, although with ups and downs sometimes it seems that there are several crises, but in true it is the same only one crisis yet, with different faces…

It is so because what is in crisis is the postmodern system. One can ask why something that worked very well did not work anymore. We do not know the wright answer but what we know is that history is like this, history changes anyway, despite human efforts to keep the path the was useful for decades. Paradigms do not stay strong permanently. What happens in biological, physical or chemical level that are all time changing happens also in human, social, anthropological, world, although there are physical, chemical and biological laws… And all happens in cycles also…

Anyway, now that pragmatic economic directions are not working anymore despite people try “to keep in the game…” Economy is not something only rational. The subjective side of economy emerges from time to time and maybe now is one of those moments. The market is nervous, non-confident, etc. So, numbers are not enough.

We do not know what is going to be the new economy. Maybe this kind of “post-economy” is under construction with new factors that are still arising…   

Still the same old crisis...

From time to time since 2008 it seems that a new global crisis arrives, after and before a calm period. But, if we look more carefully, we can see that it is the same crisis since those days.

Some continuity is going through the ups and downs and it is difficult to understand and read it by “economy lenses”. Maybe it happens because this kind of crisis probably is a historical crisis, a cultural crisis, a “macro shift moment” between two eras: postmodern times are ending and after-postmodern are coming. The system, that was useful once, doesn’t work anymore as it worked before. That system was truly efficient and efficiency was a capital quality of it… But that efficiency does not give answer to the new questions or solution to the new problems. It is time to find a new paradigm to bring meaning to the signals seen in day by day, or in science, or in culture. Economic problems are not alone separated from other human factors. So, maybe it is necessary to use creativity and find new languages to understand and describe the differences among economies that are trying to find some common ground to them, that are trying to find a new Ariadne’s thread to go in and out of the labyrinth…