Out of the wreckage?

Kintsugi - Japanese ceramic repair using gold

I am finding this a slightly surreal time as we watch on, helpless, with a combination of amusement, horror and fatalism a government heading towards an inevitable car crash and wonder what the collateral damage will be, not least to us and those around us.

On a more productive note, I think about what we might do to use the wreckage not to cobble together yet more clumsy approaches but something more akin to Kintsugi, the art of bringing the pieces back together in a form that has beauty in its own right.

We can be certain that we will have wreckage to work with – a combination of complex, extended infrastructures highly vulnerable to climate change, a wilfully blind corporate and  financial system that insists on magical perpetual growth, and pliable governments that are so hopelessly enmeshed with the way it works that effective leadership is missing. I think we are very unlikely to change that before we must deal with the consequences. Th…