Ahead

Crisis will always present us with new opportunities. When we encounter a crisis we are, in effect, coming upon a fork in the road. The path more worn is that which points us back to where we have been. But the second path invites us to discover something new. This is the path of real opportunity, because when we are in crisis, life informs us that the path we have been on no longer works. It is obsolete.
The teetering of late post-industrial capitalism tells us that a world based on the success of the few and impoverishment of the many does not work. We are now paying for our greed and our desire to profit by continuing to rape the planet and subscribe to a belief that growth, for its own self, is a virtue. In fact, it is a lethal vice.
If we are dedicated to going back to this world, then we only continue on the path that continues to erode the vitality of the planet, sustain the desperation of the many for the benefit of the few, and sustain a belief that we can never have enough.
Most will wish to go back, because this is the only world they know. Whether they know it conscious or not, they and their peers are identified with lack and insufficiency, so they will subscribe to growth scenarios.