What is something that will never be the same after this pandemic ends?

Scaling back to normal

If I wanted to give a sensationalist answer I would say nothing will ever be the same after the pandemic. And actually this is the truth.

We are just starting an unprecedented socio-economic crisis that will wash away most of our activities, lifestyles we took for granted forever. Our new life will be much closer to the life we tasted through the quarantine, based on Natural necessities, available resources.

The quarantine wasn’t long enough for us to notice, but after an initial period of “withdrawal symptoms” we will realize, that those activities, services, production and entertainment that will fade away, are actually unnecessary for a normal Human life and we will be much better without them.

Globally Facilitated Transition

Yes, there will be a transitional time when many people will be left without jobs, facing daily difficulties for covering their necessities. But the governments of each country will have to adjust — and they will no other choice — to facilitate covering those necessities, for the time being, rearranging, rerouting resources, distribution which will also expand into global cooperation, relief effort.

Then when the dust settles and we see what remains, what’s truly a necessity, what’s worthwhile to revive, sustain, a unique rebuilding process will start. And here it will be very important what methods, values, goals we use for rebuilding.

Rebuilding According to New Goals, Values

It will be very obvious that we can’t just blindly, stubbornly rebuild the very system which drove us into this meltdown — which the virus only completed, brought forward.

We will have to go towards different goals — instead of the excessive, aimless, excessive overproduction, overconsumption, instead of a small minority collecting zeros on Bank accounts, feeling proud of their placing on the Forbes list, chasing GDP figures, yearly growth and stock exchange values when a mass of people are struggling, or making themselves braindead with the abundantly supplied “circus and bread entertainment” (probably even without the bread), or freely available toxic substances.

And here is where the biggest change will unfold.

A Collective Intelligence, Collective Vision

While we don’t see, realize it yet, from now on we will look at the world with a completely new focus. Until now we looked at everything through our inherently self-serving, individualistic, subjective vision, seeing a very limited, distorted picture of reality.

From now on we will get used to looking at reality through a mutually responsible, mutually complementing, collective vision — from the understanding, tangible sensation that we are but individual cells of a single, fully integrated, and interdependent Human “super-organism”.

And this vision will be incomparable to the previous one, providing a complete, perfect and objective view, attainment of reality above all the egocentric, subjective limitations of time, space, and physical motion.

And through this new collective intelligence, the vision we will have no problem to solve our present problems that are caused by the old approach, we will have no problem to rebuild Humanity in company compatibility with Nature’s perfect template, becoming the system’s partners, benevolent “owners”, guardians.

These are the unprecedented changes that are ahead of us.