We can’t s step into the same river twice!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readMay 27, 2020

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Whether we want it not, we can’t go back to the pre-Covid-19 conditions for many reasons.

As they say, one cannot step into the same river twice.

We are constantly changing, evolving, even if we don’t notice this day to day.
But the changes we go through now - as a result of the pandemic - are major jumps, not just small steps day to day.

First of all our Human system was already on the brink of collapse even before the virus appeared. A global disaster was in the cards, triggered from multiple different sparks - climate change causing different “natural phenomena killing people, destroying assets”, unsustainable economic, financial system on life support for decades, unserviceable debt all over the world, societal tension, breakup due to absurd inequality, artificially incited racism, antibiotic resistance exposing us to plagues, worsening geopolitical conflicts, proxy-wars, trade-wars threatening with escalation to world war…

The virus gave a final push to this already exhausted system so whatever we are restarting now will be only a faint shadow of what we had before.

Most importantly many people - hopefully reaching the quantity of a necessary critical mass (about 10–15% of population) - realized that even if could, we shouldn’t return to the world, lifestyle we had before.

We have enough historic, and real life experience to conclude that we were self-destructing like cancer with our excessive, overproduction, overconsumption system while succeeding, surviving at each other’s expense, exploiting everything, everyone too the last drop regardless of the consequences.

With the help of this critical mass, unique pioneers we can start to build a new Human society - while the old one fully disintegrates - on the blueprint of Nature’s perfectly balanced, integrated system, after all we are all integral parts of this system as Human species this Nature’s iron laws sustaining homeostasis for life and optimal development are binding us too.

Thus we must not look back, but focus on the future, building a completely new world for ourselves and for our children, a world that actually had a chance of surviving and developing as partners with Nature.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by 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.

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