Conviviality — Fear and Prejudice

Proximity also encompasses temporality and is so comprehensive in this sense that it explains the concepts of contemporaneity and antiquity. Coexistence scenarios are experienced (nurtured) now, before and after, both near and far.

Living with another people is to share the same space, the same time, but also to participate in what happens with the other.

The question of participation in coexistence is an obligation that has been reduced to almost no sense of coexistence, although it is what maintains it in terms of tranquility, or what turns it into difficulty, creating obstacles, turning meetings into clashes, disputes, quarrels, and discord.

These aspects of disharmony hamper conviviality, since the parts have been distorted into totalities, contexts from which the patterns of coexistence are defined, configured.

It is no longer just being near, in the same space or in the same family that defines conviviality: the vectors, the signs that structure values and rules create groups where people feel represented and are their representatives.

The equal, the different, the stranger and what is considered good or bad are integrated or disintegrated from these meanings. The coexistence now is between equals and between different ones.