What is the point of a ranking of how happy the various countries of the world are? I ask myself this question on March 20, the tenth World Day of Happiness established by the United Nations.
The cost of a bomb dropped on Gaza can range from $25,000 to $500,000, depending on the type. A single flight hour of an Israeli F-35 stealth aircraft, worth $100 million, can cost tens of thousands of dollars per hour. Yet this happens every day. Every day, somewhere in the world, someone presses a multi-million dollar button to erase a house worth perhaps $15,000. But above all, to extinguish lives whose value, in humanity’s spiritual ledger, is priceless.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian in Gaza earns (or earned) on average $13 a day. Not enough for a hot meal in any Western city. Certainly not enough to survive under bombs. Yet these lives, which in the eyes of global finance are almost worthless, carry the weight of wars moving billions.
We live within an economy that has lost its center. And here Spherism offers us a key: calculation alone is not enough, we must rebalance. We need a spherical economy, not a linear one, where every action is evaluated not only by profit or by the power it generates as a reaction, but by the impact it has on the entire human, energetic, spiritual ecosystem generated as interaction.
Spherism reminds us that every human being is an orbital field: energy in relation to others. When a human is disintegrated by a bomb, not only a body disappears: an entire network of connections is broken. An orbit is fractured. A balance is disrupted. Within this, a spherical economic approach (the Spherical Economy) is based on a concept of value that goes beyond GDP or military budgets. It takes into account Humanovability — the human capacity to evolve, cooperate, generate solutions, considering not only the speed of progress and — at best — the impact we generate, but also how all this affects the entire human race.
Wars, in fact, do not develop the economy, they atrophy it. They develop finance instead. And this should be the first indicator to watch, even before interest rates or gas prices. The Model of the 8Ps — Outer Person, People, Partnership, Profit, Prosperity, Planet, Peace, Inner Person — is an alternative framework to measure the effectiveness of a spherical approach in Economy. Each of these words has a concrete meaning. Each is a parameter to evaluate the world, events, political choices. If a decision violates 7 of the Ps to feed just one — like Profit, for example — then we are not facing a choice that will truly generate advantage. It is regression.
Spirituality, in all this, is not a luxury. It is what is missing in the rooms of power. It is the absence of that idea of the sacred that makes bombing a school possible. It is the disconnection from the principle of Life that allows calculating the ROI of a missile as if it were a stock market investment.
We live in times where technology has surpassed ethics. Where we can quantify everything, but no longer feel anything. And perhaps this is the real problem: not so much the war itself, but the normalization of injustice. The fact that we know how much a bomb costs, but no longer know how much a caress, a truce, a sincere embrace between human beings is worth.
Perhaps the real revolution will not be ideological or political. It will be spiritual. When we understand that we are all part of the same orbital field, maybe we will stop dropping bombs provoking wars and start dropping Love feeding Peace. And we will begin to build bridges. Spherical, vital, resilient, antifragile. And so, some questions remain hanging, echoing in the sky after the explosion:
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What does it say about us that we can finance a million-dollar drone, but not a school costing a hundred thousand?
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How many children must die before power recognizes its limit?
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Do we really believe that security comes from supremacy, not from relationship?
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What would happen if we used the same budget as bombings to activate the 8Ps on a planetary scale?
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Are we still able to feel the pain of others, or have we anesthetized ourselves in the comfort of our beliefs?
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What is the cost of peace? And how much does its absence cost us every day?
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Is peace the absence of war or an inner condition of the (human) being?
