Where Is COVID Leading Us?
Be open. The rest will take care of itself.
These are liminal times. Poised on a threshold, about to be released from a pandemic that has demanded that we sublimate our individual needs for the common good, we hesitate. Some of us will rush to return to the hurly-burly of unbridled personal ambition. Others will seek to find a new way to advance the needs of a community in whose collective prosperity we believe we will find our own greatest personal fulfillment.
As we determine which way we will jump, we need to closely observe the inventors, artists and entrepreneurs who are familiar with this powerful, empty space. They understand how to wait for the unseen to appear to the unknowing. Unfortunately, their wisdom is not totally sufficient to our current task, as it is confined to the creation of products, programs, organizations, and movements that address specific problems, not far-reaching solutions that trigger a fundamental, tectonic shift in the attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors of us all.
We know that something universal and cosmic just happened — the world cratered in a way that we have rarely seen before. Through COVID-19 we have witnessed a vast, global, creative destruction of the way we are accustomed to living. There are intimations that there could be more to come. Perhaps another more virulent…
