To create, to push in that direction, to help engender a universal human nation is an aim of the Humanist Movement and the Community of the Message. This is not only a thought, a feeling and an action. It is already seen and experienced among the communities so engaged and witnessed in our Parks - especially at Punta de Vacas. Yes it is something to be generally deposited in the future, yet, in a limited form, among us, it exists now and is what is being built under the prevailing ethos that we dearly encourage..
It can be imbued at our international gatherings in particular by those actively taking part, actively contributing. It is the underlying texture of relationships established after thirty and more years of co-operation; it is the characteristic spirit encountered by the welcomed newcomer when that one recovers from the ‘shock' of meeting a new type of human being, or, more correctly, of at last meeting the human being, alive and well.
In those countries with functioning humanist movement groups with the proper organisational norm, with their orientators, their administrators and support sectors, their body of members actively co-operating, a good taste can also be obtained of what the Universal Human Nation means - but only by those involved. Observers are merely bemused.
In practical terms the universal human nations sees everyone treated as they should be treated as human beings in all their diversity. It is where injustices have ceased, where negative discriminations have ceased. It is when a man is a man and a woman a women, when children feel secure and seniors are respected and have a place. It is when hunger is only felt between meals, when sexual happiness is widespread as their is freedom of choice.
With the arising of the universal human nation the body governing a people are in place because of merit and capability thus they administer to the needs and contentedness of the people and the form of governance is democratic in the real sense of a living yet diverse culture of human behaviours that is free, tolerant, just and evenly disposed toward allowing differences and individuality.
It may not be a utopia that is without sickness or sadness as these are part of living a full life on this Earth which has built-in factors that adversely affect the possibilities, but it will have those factors minimized.
The building of this universal human nation is not really difficult at all in the sense of 'can it be done' but it does depend on human intentions and a willingness to act in that direction.
Notes on the Universal Humanist nation
From the Document of the Humanist Movement
Humanists are internationalists, aspiring to a universal human nation. While understanding the world they live in as a single whole, humanists act in their immediate environments. Humanists seek not a uniform world, but a world of multiplicity: diverse in ethnicity, languages, and customs; diverse in local and regional autonomy; diverse in ideas and aspirations; diverse in beliefs, whether atheist or religious; diverse in occupations and in creativity.
The Crisis of Traditional Humanism and Remarks on New Humanism, A Talk by Salvatore Puledda, University of Rome, April 16, 1996
Our planet today is rapidly being unified, with peoples and cultures thrown forcibly together, with the result that their various visions of the world encounter other visions with differing purposes and contrasting values. Then what can we find to serve as the common denominator which, while recognizing diversity, will at the same time make possible a convergence, a uniting of the many peoples, the many cultures, the many religions of the world? How can all people come together to create a truly universal human nation? In Silo’s formulation this is possible as each culture discovers or rediscovers the humanist periods in its own history, in which their finest productions and actions have been associated with the following characteristics: (1) placement of the human being as the central value and concern; (2) affirmation of the equality of all human beings; (3) recognition of cultural and personal diversity; (4) development of knowledge beyond what has been accepted as "absolute" truth; (5) affirmation of freedom of ideas and beliefs; and (6) repudiation of all forms of violence.
Humanism defined as such an approach and attitude toward personal and community life is not, then, the legacy of any one culture, it is the common heritage of all the cultures of the Earth. And it is in this sense that such a humanism can be spoken of as a universal humanism.
From the introduction to the Humanist Forum by the founder of the Humanist Movement, Moscow
The Humanist Forum intends to set the basis for a global discussion in the future. It cannot disqualify a priori the contributions made to this day by different currents of thought and action, regardless of their practical success or failure. It would be of greater interest to consider different positions and to understand that in this planetary civilisation in gestation a diversity in positions, values and lifestyles will prevail in the future in spite of the assault by currents promoting uniformity. In this respect we aspire to a universal human nation possible only in the presence of diversity. Central hegemony upon the periphery will not be possible nor will it be a system of values, or religious or ideological assumptions imposed at the expense of the disappearance of others.
Silo’s words at the First Annual Celebration of Silo’s Message, Punta de Vacas, Argentina May 4th, 2004
"We are at the end of a dark period in history and nothing will ever be the same as before. Little by little, the dawning of a new day will come. Cultures will begin to understand one another; the peoples will experience a growing yearning for progress for all, understanding that progress for the few ends up being progress for no one. Yes, there will be peace, and out of necessity it will be understood that the outline of a universal human nation is taking shape."
From talk by Silo "Toward a Universal Humanism"
Living with antagonism between the personal and the social has not thus far yielded very good results. We must dis-cover whether it might not make more sense to bring those two terms – the personal and the social – into a convergent relationship, a unity. Living with antagonism between cultures clearly has not led us in the right direction. We need to go beyond lip-service recognition of cultural diversity and examine in depth the real possibility of uniting as a universal human nation.