War is the distance that separates idealists from reality, but there are many more distances that separate idealists from reality—many distances contained within globalization itself.
In this book we develop a very current theme, the theme of invisible borders, the title of many books and a reference point for many contemporary works, but here we emphasize something important about those invisible borders of globalization.
Above all, we point to the new inequality in the age of globalization. War alone is not the only powerful and significant inequality.
But look above all at the book’s cover. The cover is something that speaks for itself. It is not that an image is worth more than a thousand words; rather, the image is enormously representative of what your generation—and the generation of your parents—essentially are.
Look at the characteristic figure of a millennial confronting shattered illusions, represented in a globe that is utterly dissected, dried out, and cracked on all sides before a world in ruins, before a completely ruinous world.
That world is the inheritance of the boomers, whether they constructed it intentionally or inevitably. It is the world that stands before us: before the boomers in their old age, before the millennials in the middle of their lives, and above all before those born already in the twenty-first century, who have done nothing and in that sense are the most innocent figures in this whole story.
Yet this world—which reflects above all the destroyed illusions and broken dreams of an entire generation that has inherited a terribly devastated world and must somehow survive within it—this world we face, those of us who still live on this planet, is determined by the invisible borders of the new inequality in the age of globalization.
You can read many essays, essays that may speak to you about things you will never encounter: essays about God, essays about the infinite, essays about many philosophies that will leave you exactly where you were. But this is a manual for surviving the problems that stand before you.
Here we do not speak to you about idealist philosophies; here we speak about the world you will have to grapple with, the world you will have to confront, and above all the world you will have to survive. The new inequality in the age of globalization.
Jesús G. Maestro