Is The World Worth Saving?

Photo by Jeff Hughes

Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality”, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture…We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it. — Arundhati Roy

“All through Trump’s term, the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock, the best general assessment we have of the state of the world, moved closer to midnight — termination — reached the highest point ever. This January, it exceeded it. The analysts gave up minutes, moved to seconds: a hundred seconds to midnight, thanks to Donald Trump.” — Noam Chomsky

Strange that it would be up to us, the human species, to save the world. We hardly notice its divine beauty, the miracle of its existence. We could easily know what to do — and more important, what not to do — if we had eyes to see the reality of the paradise we inhabit.

Having eyes to see is exactly the problem. Our mind is blinded by our received ideas. Our culture has a heartlessness that is invisible to us. Our “leaders” are sociopaths…