After 7 decades of frenetic rebuilding after the unique horrors of World War II, Nature has reasserted itself, and is forcing us to take a Sabbatical.
With all our human ingenuity and creativity, we have accelerated to excess, as we in the advanced capitalist world have failed to exercise enough self-discipline and self-reflection, thinking there was always going to be more, more more.
We now have the time to reflect on how we came to be at this junction. Here we find ourselves, isolated cells sitting alone in a network of cables, seeing the world and our friends literally “through a glass, darkly”.
Perhaps this pause will cause us to think creatively about ways forward, although IMO we need less "creativity" and more "receptivity".
In my sociology days, as I became disillusioned by the simplistic binary division then in vogue, between the "social" and "medical" models, I came to envisage “Culture” as a rubber band attached to “Nature”.
With all our ingenuity, we can only pull away so far before the band snaps us back.
Or breaks.
We now wait and see who will bend and who will be broken.
Crisis, opportunity. The world turns. I wish I could pray to a Parent Figure in the sky to fix it for us, myself, my near and dear, and my ever-widening circles, but its now time to wish everyone well, watch and wait, and hope we all weather this somehow and get some wisdom in the process
Crisis, opportunity.
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