We need to learn how to overcome the pandemic and the crisis
Question from the Internet:
“What should society look like in the context of an uncontrolled pandemic and a people with little or no discipline?”
Please look around, this is how it looks!
We are in an uncontrolled pandemic as leaders, experts pretend to do things, but whatever they are doing - each according to their own egocentric, subjective view - is ineffective as the so-called second wave is burying everybody.
And while during the first quarantine people followed instructions, now nobody trusts anybody any longer, people want their usual toys, pleasures, fun-filled, hedonistic activities they got used to and protest against further restrictions.
Reportedly leaders want to save the economy, but this unsustainable economy that is built on harmful, self-destructive overconsumption, ruthless competition had already been dying, being in perpetual crisis for decades. Unemployment, social unrest, inequality, general, unserviceable debt was rising for a long time.
Please explain for example, how does it make sense to announce restrictions from a certain date and time, while allowing people to swarm, gather in restaurants, bars, stadiums, supermarkets before that deadline?! Does the virus wait for deadlines too?! How can national, international sporting competitions go on when countries otherwise lock down?! Yes, the show, the “circus and bread” to calm, numb people has to go in…
With the pandemic we are “as if” woken up in a different planet with different laws. We find ourselves in a truly globally integrated, truly interdependent world. And we don’t like it!
We don’t want to feel, exercise mutual responsibility towards others, we don’t want to take the safety, health of others into consideration, we don’t want to let go of any activities, pleasures we used to enjoy before the pandemic, even if our actual health, survival depends on it.
We are so engrossed in, dictated by our selfish, egocentric instincts that we would rather get sick, even die than to give up the usual blind, instinctive fulfillments we got addicted to.
The “bad news” - actually it is good news as this will save our life in the long term - is that the virus pushed, locked us into a forced rehab we can’t escape from. Regardless of what we stubbornly try, however we resist the pandemic and the ongoing crisis the virus made sharper will force us to align ourselves with the strict, unbreakable Natural laws that keep balance and homeostasis life depends on.
We would do better learning, accepting those laws, consciously, proactively adapting to them rather than waiting for more suffering, crisis to force is. This is why the first priority needs to be introducing a unique, purposeful and highly practical “Integral Education”.