Abstract
Embark on a journey across time and the impact displacement has had on humanity. Using the analogy of a one-year calendar, the author glides over the historical events that have led to the current state of the world, including the rise of bioethics and the effects of the industrial revolution. The new big data empires are rapidly changing the world, and those who do not master them likely will be victims of those who do. The symbols we use and the way we treat the vulnerable are important aspects of displacement as seen in the impact of agribusiness giants on indigenous communities. Otherwise, the macrocosm of the bioethics of displacement will resume in a brain-dead humankind in a shifting landscape. It's important to understand the impact of displacement on humanity, and the values needed to navigate this rapidly changing world in which politicians' role seem to promote displacement and the subsequent growth of gangs. To cope with all this loss of meaning, some values are essential, including self-kindness, human warmth, solidarity, and a sense of belonging.
TopBodi’S Cosmic Calendar
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not. (Malik, 2018)
Let’s now imagine Bodi’s timespan as a one year calendar, just like Carl Sagan did at Cosmos (Druyan et al., 1980, Chapter 1). If the timespan since the first primitive shark moms made displacement important for life were a year, the human migrations, wonders, horrors and new and unmatched deeds would have started in the last day dusk; the surge in references to “bioethics” would have appeared in the last ten minutes. It took humans roughly an hour of this year to remove Neanderthals, a bit less than 20 minutes for deprecating nomadism since the first cities and only 20 seconds for the Industrial Revolution coal and carbon favoured to rule over the deindustrialized economies. The way the new Big Data empires are changing the world is so expeditious that we hardly realise what is happening. This new divergence against our common humanity will turn, one more time, the people who don’t master it into the victims of the ones who do. But, seemingly, it will be faster than industrialization, 3-4 seconds in the calendar of Displacement at most or, in other words, it will end before 2050. But beware, the light that burns as short can burn as hotter and, maybe, what is going to end before 2050 is Humankind. History teaches us the daily life values we must thrive for in order to cope with displacement. Those values are: self-kindness, human warmth, solidarity and sense of belonging.
TopThe Macrocosm Of The Bioethics Of Displacement
A Brain-Dead Humankind in a Shifting Risks Landscape
The idea of macrocosm as something greater than life but connecting us comes from Empedocles and echoes through Greek and Roman until the present 2019 public health concepts (Have, 2019, p. 45). However, it’s not only a Western idea, but quite the opposite: the meteorological medicine practised by the Ancient Greeks mirrors in African ontology and Ancient China diagnosis (Houston, 2002; Masolo, 1994, p. 108).
In history, the skin has been a place where microcosm and macrocosm joined (Diamandopoulos et al., 2001). Unsurprisingly, the study of macrocosm, more even in bioethics, have been hindered by the political incivilities and plain criminal abuse like the Tuskegees, which turned colour sexual minorities into more elusive study groups, as well as other issues that litters the grounds of our discipline (Ramos et al., 2019). Thankfully, ethical information management, namely from electronic devices can fix it. For example, the data custodian reciprocity, non‐exploitation and focus on the public good is an invaluable asset in the use of personal information in health research (Allen et al., 2019; Lozano Rodríguez, 2018, pp. 73–75).
To reach a macrocosmic level of xenotransplantation as a global and affordable technology leading the zoonotic risks to be distributed globally was over the 20th century bioethics capabilities (Rothblatt, 2001). In addition to this, bioterrorism global scorch will likely use zoonoses (Jackson et al., 2006; Ryan, 2008). It’s up to see how this global distribution of risk-producing stakeholders changes as the global climate advances.
There is on Earth about 8 billion kilos of human thinking matter (Dunagan, 2004) but even when it comes to deciding on the behalf of Earth or humankind not even 40 tons are used.1 And not even these few tons are used entirely or impartially! Ironically, there is also 8 billion kilos of plastic in the Ocean awaiting removal (Mast, 2019) but till the last gram counts. A brain with less than 1% of activity is close to the subject’s clinical death, but when it comes to most transcendental decision making human brains’ activity is 0,0005%. If we don’t stop being like dead, we’ll be dead for good.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Vulnerability: Lacking means of protection or defense opportunities leading to being easily hurt or affected by physical, emotional, or environmental factors.
Cyborg: A creature part organic, part machine, with restored functions or enhanced abilities through integrated feed-back controlled mechanical elements.
Microcosm: A small-scale representation or reflection of a larger system, usually used to describe a small community or individual within a larger society.
Transcendence: Going beyond normal limits or existence, often associated with spiritual experiences that surpass ordinary life.
Epistemology: The study of knowledge, including its nature, limits, and how we justify our beliefs about the world.
Macrocosm: A complete system that contains smaller or subordinate elements within it.
Transhumanism: Using: technology to enhance human abilities and push beyond current physical and mental limitations.