The Descent and Ascent of Humanity — Evolution and Collapse (Part 2 of Trilogy)
Slow Down, Humans
Speed underpins every phenomenon of our Universe, and our problems too
If anything, the most important thing I have learned all these years, through school, through physical experience, through the exploration of self and beyond, is that humanity needs to slow down and be patient.
We seem to be caught in a hustle of solving one problem while creating another, all the while being “busy” and always in a hurry. In the hope to eradicate the traditional “bads” (e.g., material poverty and labor-intensive work), the world has experienced rapid growth of economy and convenience in the last two centuries. Individually, we strive in exams, rush to reopen schools to complete more exams, work 9–5 to earn bread, buy a car to go to work faster, buy coffees and take-outs to fill our brains and stomachs, swipe through dating apps, rush to have kids when the biological (or cultural?) alarm rings. But then new “bads” arise, global pandemic, unprecedented pollution, climate change, growing inequality, machines taking over our jobs, sedentary lifestyle, a whole generation of social discontent etc. Right now, we are trying all our wits and methods to “quickly eradicate” these new bads. One cannot help but…
