The Polycrisis: "If You're Not Really Scared By What's Going On, In The World, You're Braindead"

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4. Holding A Candle Over The Abyss

That's what I remember someone saying our civitas was like. Nassim Taleb's idea of black swans expresses our current situation. Our current operating word seems very fragile (non robust). Small unexpected perturbations grow into tsunamis wreaking havoc across our human created systems.

The Covid-19 pandemic is just one example of how something can disrupt and change our whole global system. In many aspects, we are still trying to recover. We'd benefit from some more robust tweaks to our society, but that's probably more than we can do from a top down approach. Smaller, local/individual changes probably have a better chance of being enacted than wide sweeping reforms.