How To Restore the Balance To An Unbalanced, Chaotic and Dystopian World ?
Alvin Toffler (1972). “The futurists”
It happened so quickly that you barely had time to take it all in. One day, you're a healthy person; the next day, you're health suddenly starts to deteriorate, and over the ensuing weeks and months, you become a very sick patient. If collective humanity is a patient, it is a chronically ill patient.
We used to get up each day and recognize what was some semblance of normalcy. Now, there is a "new normal" each day, and it keeps changing so fast and radically that we can't keep up.
We have mass illegal migration, authoritarian edicts projected as "freedom", bureaucratic incompetence, political corruption, deadly "safe and effective" vaccines, falling life expectancy in many countries, institutions of lower learning, attacks on women rationalized, victims are now perpetrators, sexual identity is whatever you wish it to be, authorities spying on you, and phoney science. The list could span several pages, but you get the message.
The whole value structure of the West is crumbling. While this has been in the works for some time, it has been accelerating exponentially in the past few years. As Alvin Toffler pointed out in Future Shock, written in 1970:
"Culture shock is what happens when a traveler suddenly finds himself in a place where yes may mean no, where a "fixed price" is negotiable, where to be kept waiting in an outer office is no cause for insult, where laughter may signify anger. It is what happens when the familiar psychological cues that help an individual to function in society are suddenly withdrawn and replaced by new ones that are strange or incomprehensible."
Yes, we are in a strange, disoriented world, and many people are having trouble coping; they're stumbling out of balance with their centre of gravity. So the question is, what can we do about it?
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