Return to Humanity

A powerful call to rethink our relationship with nature, truth, and ourselves.

In this urgent and thought-provoking essay, Susanna Tamaro examines the forces that have shaped one of the most tumultuous periods in recent history. The pandemic years brought a “great reset” for so many of our certainties and convictions, resulting in a collective trauma whose consequences we live with today: severe social discord, acute psychological distress, and widespread uncertainty about the future. We must find a way to resist misinformation, the temptations of social control, and the drift toward transhumanism – a movement that threatens our approach to medicine. It is an aberrant concept that views people not as unique unions of body and soul, but merely as object to be managed, dosed with pills and vaccines, and ultimately discarded when they are no longer “functional”.

With her signature blend of intimacy and philosophical depth, she explores how fear and political manipulation have clouded our judgment, making us susceptible to fanaticism while preventing us from asking the questions that truly matter. Reflecting on humanity’s estrangement from nature, the loss of silence, the erosion of beauty, and the unchecked expansion of urbanization, Tamaro challenges us to reconsider the values that define our lives.