Kiekari. Mexico’s ancestral “rancheridad” as a worldview and a philosophical and spiritual foundation for environmentally sustainable cultural development in Mexico by 2030

Abstract

Our planet is currently going through one of the most severe environmental crises in human history because of us. According to sources such as the UN, the natural resources of future generations have already been compromised.

Are we condemned to an irreversible natural catastrophe? What have we Mexicans missed to understand? For years, we have been ashamed of our cultural roots and our rural origins, this being the fundamental minimum organizational base of the Mexican “polis”. However, the knowledge of “ranch life” goes beyond agricultural knowledge, its roots are found in “the sacred”, in the transcendent respect for what was not created by the hands of humanity, the natural. We have substituted this for the interest of the economic power that the land can give us. Cultural Management must extend its field of action towards the preservation of culture, but not before knowing its own cultural roots.