From conception, human development takes place in the relationship with the other. The mother's womb is the first environment where we develop these evolutionary bonds. To live is to relate. And it is in the social placenta that we call the family where we begin to do politics.
Politics is everything that involves our social relations. The word emerged in ancient Greece, when society organized the polis, city-states in the term that gives rise to politikus, from what belongs to citizens, and evolves - in several academic studies - until reaching our politics, like this, in Portuguese.
Living is therefore a political act. And we started to do politics, in the etymological sense of the word, of relating in the polis, primarily in the core where we were raised. This is where we will base our identity. Even before we reach school benches (who arrives) and society.
Therefore, the policy "done at home" precedes the policy made in society. It is in the family - regardless of its configuration - that we build our references of values and what we believe. Afterwards, we take this to the world, where we come across other references and differences that will help in our evolutionary process.
By learning from differences - and not denying, distancing ourselves from or pretending that they are invisible - we have the ability to broaden our view of the world and develop solidarity and empathy, essential attributes in living in society, in the polis. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
There is no evolution alone. All social evolution starts from the relationship between individuals. In a co-evolutionary process. This process is only possible when we become aware that certain patterns, based on selfishness (when our ego goes over the other), no longer fit in our social placenta, in our polis.
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Consciously raising our children involves shedding light on how we deal with our wounds as individuals and as a society. Only then will we be able to break with structural evils such as patriarchy, racism, homophobia, ableism, fatphobia, xenophobia and prejudices of all kinds.
It's high time we left behind the view that the other is a threat. Only then will we be able to dream of freedom for this future that runs today in our backyards.
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Tati Fávaro is a woman, daughter, journalist, mother, doula and co-founder of Crie Filhos - Conscious Creation Activist Network .
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