Covid-19: Rearranging the socio-economic system

The “beauty” of the process that has started — in which process we will slow down and return to a necessity/resources based life — is that we do not need to focus on “elimination’, forceful restrictions.

Coercion, being forced to give up things never works in the long term, as we keep longing for, regretting what we had to give up. This is why most diets, rehab programs do not work and we have an even worse rebound effect since we are constantly crying inside, hurting from the restrictions we are imposing on ourselves.

We can easily give up on thins on two conditions:

• they simply become unavailable, and especially if they were not essential for our lives we forget about them soon
• we find much greater, more attractive pleasures that simply make us forget the things we want to give up on.

And now both conditions came to help us to restructure our lives towards a much better, healthier, sustainable existence based on modern, natural Human necessities and available resources.

The subsequent socio-economic crisis will wipe away most of the professions, industries that served our mind-numbing, dumbing circus, that kept us hypnotized in the modern slavery we lived in.

Most of the professional sports machinery stopped, the media, the entertainment, and celebrity industry that relies heavily on sponsors and the hysteric, illusory scenarios of life they self-generate will also dwindle away. Again only truly exceptional, talented artists will prevail who will be happy to do their hard work for more human salaries without the excesses we got used to.

We won’t have phones updated every year, we won’t have 3D TV’s, 8K TV’s we can’t even use as our sensors aren’t able to capture what they offer. The markets, the industry will organically adjust — in the lack of the usual resources — to produce the goods that we truly need, in the numbers that we need. Again they will become interested to build robust, long-lasting appliances that do not need replacing every year to keep “aggregate demand” going for more.

Thus the consumers will adjust, demand and supply will gradually but very quickly reach the normal, healthy, modern level, providing a good healthy life for all at costs that is affordable for all.

Most important we will towards much greater, most important pleasures, source of fulfillment than consumerism or being glued to the “circus and bread” entertainment in between our trips to shopping centers, restaurants, coffees and flying to exotic places. During the lockdown, we are already rediscovering the strength and pleasure in true Human connections, physically with our families and virtually with others.

Moreover, the virus is also teaching us that we are all sitting on the same (sinking) boat, our lives depend on each other and we are totally responsible towards one another — not to infect the others, not to succeed at their expense as it comes back like a boomerang in this integral system.

Honestly, even within this year, our lives will change so rapidly, so much that we won’t recognize the world we lived in when we look back. And we won’t miss a thing, we will feel liberated, reborn!