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The Good Green Earth
Post disaster can be beneficial. In the Middle Ages, traders brought the plague bacillus. In two years, it had killed one in two Europeans. Before 1348, aristocrats who owned land sold or bought serfs. After the epidemic, due to the labor shortage, they had to treat the peasants better and the serfdom disappeared in two years.
But the aftermath can also have evil effects. Because Germany had been humiliated in 1918 by the Treaty of Versailles, the Germans could not rebuild themselves. A pseudo-savior arrived … And in 1933, he was elected, which caused a world catastrophe.
There, we will have the choice to live in solidarity in another way: by giving a voice to many of those we are rediscovering now, caregivers, nurses, letter carriers, garbage collectors.
If we do not do so, there will be candidate dictators. — Boris Cyrulnik
(Translation from French by me and Google Translate)
We have a choice now. What we decide will determine what kind of future we’ll have, or perhaps if we have a future at all. History shows us the results we can expect, depending on whether we are acting out of fear and hate or justice and generosity. The stakes couldn’t be higher because we have the power now to bring down the curtain on all life except maybe fleas and cockroaches.
