Our present socioeconomic system is unsustainable — the pandemic subbing shows us a mirror
Question from the Internet:
“If the lockdown continues until the end of 2021, will it have a permanent long-term impact on the global economy?”
Yes, it will.
But in truth the global economy, our present Human socioeconomic system has been in crisis for decades.
We just refused to see it and stubbornly kept on reviving the dying system through different stimulus, bailout packages, basically pouring virtual money into a virtual, artificial system.
The pandemic acts like the “little boy” in the famous story, deciding that the “emperor had no clothes" — our Human system is unsustainable. The lockdowns, the constant stop/start of the economic and financial system removed any further ability to fool ourselves through false, cosmetic measures.
Thus we will have no other choice but to finally look into a brutally honest mirror and see, that in Nature’s fully integrated, interdependent system a fragile balance, homeostasis — without which life isn’t possible — is maintained through strict, unforgiving natural laws. And as long as we ignore, break those laws with our “cancer-like", excessively overconsuming, ruthlessly competitive system we drive ourselves towards self-destruction.
After such a recognition we can finally start a very different, this time conscious (not blindly, inductively self-serving) Human development, building a Human society that is based on Nature’s integral, interdependent, balanced template — instead of our misguided, egotistic, selfish and exploitative ideologies, philosophies and religions.