Shockabuku. A swift spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever.
Urban Dictionary / Grosse Point Blanke
As I was writing yesterday's blog, I found myself reflecting on our attitude towards the Covid-19 Crisis. I think the clue is in how we term it.
We term the virus a crisis, rather than the position we have created for ourselves in dealing with it. It allows us to blame the virus. It is wrong headed. We have become unbalanced.
Covid-19 is not the crisis - our collective hubris is.
I suggest there are a number of areas that has precipitated the crisis that is our response to the virus - all of which we can do something about if we choose.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Victor E. Frankl. Man's Search for Meaning.
Our attitude to Knowledge
Maybe our material success in commerce in the last two hundred or so years has encouraged us to conflate knowledge and scienc…
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