I’m someone who spends a lot of time thinking (edging on ruminating) about how our world is changing, and whether we’re making the best of the opportunity that presents.
Quite often, I seem to feel compelled to assert that we are absolutely not.
But for all I (apparently) have to say about the things that frustrate me, I’m actually much more interested in what we might do differently. I don’t think there’s much point in droning on about what’s wrong if we’re not also driven to imagine and work towards something better.
While I (clearly) see plenty of reasons to balk at the massive changes we’ve all experienced in recent years, I’m not particularly inclined to think going back to the way things were is realistic, or even necessarily desirable - but that doesn’t mean any given change is the right option, the only one, or beyond our ability to influence.
So I guess the crux of what I’m doing here is just thinking out loud (insofar as writing under a pseudonym on the internet can be called that), and looking for others who might like to think along with me - with at least a little more of an eye towards the future than our own navels.
As it would seem our collective sense of what’s normal is increasingly up for debate anyway, I feel like we may as well take the opportunity to ask what we’d like normal to be - and most importantly, how we might make that happen?
