After Covid-19: Returning to a new “normal”

Many people are asking if we can return to normal after the pandemic is over. It depends on our definition of “normal”.

Do we consider “normal” how we lived before the pandemic?

Was the constantly faltering, crisis-ridden socio-economic system that is built on unnatural, excessive overproduction, overconsumption and brainwashing aggregate demand normal?

Was it normal that we have been destroying Human relationships, the family, the natural environment for promising GDP figures, stable stock markets and keeping banks surviving? Was it “normal” that in order to feel “normal” we had to use all kinds of mind-numbing substances to get through our days, and even with using those substances depression, loneliness have become the true plagues?

After all, we can’t even say that with this we gave people “purpose”, work and the 24/7 shopping/entertainment activity when unemployment was constantly rising and would have reached catastrophic levels even without the virus due to robotics and waning demand due to the “Ponzi-scheme” gradually losing the bottom half of the pyramid.

Now that Humanity has dramatically reduced its toxic, harmful activities Nature almost immediately started to repair itself, regaining its foothold, regaining balance. As we can also see from the Chernobyl experience there is catastrophe Nature could not recover from.

So perhaps we need to take example from the perfect template we can learn from Nature’s template, how closed, fully integrated and interdependent systems should work, with their fragile balance and homeostasis that is necessary for life and optimal development?

And when we consciously, wisely rebuild Human society on the natural template lifestyle based on healthy, modern, Human necessities and available natural resources, we can call that life “normal”.