Returning to normal — normal according to Nature

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readJun 16, 2020

Many people are asking if after the pandemic we will return to normal. But this question raises an even greater question: what is normal?!

Is it normal what we so far considered normal?

Can we call “normal” a system that is built on excessive overproduction, overconsuming, in the reckless exploitation of natural and Human resources, that work in succeeding, surviving at each other’s expense?!

This “normal” was already in perpetual crisis even before the pandemic came!

We can try to return to the previous system but then we will continue to sleepwalk towards inevitable self-destruction, reaching out own “civilization-ending” explosion like all other civilizations before us.

So perhaps from now on we need to consider a “different” normal: what is normal according to Nature’s system.

If we rebuild our Human system based on the mutually responsible, mutually complementing interconnections, cooperation Nature’s balance and homeostasis (thus life) is based on, fitting into the optimal parameters of natural necessities and available resources, then we will be able to experience what truly “normal” existence is, developing from strength to strength.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.