Transition

"To live in the midst of an era is to be oblivious to its style.”

Spring Snow. Yukio Mishima

We are undoubtedly somewhere in a period of significant transition, though it is difficult to know how far in - The Begining? The Middle? It has been said that we don't know we're in the middle of a revolution until it's over.

Wherever we are in it, it's not like we couldn't have seen it coming in some form. If we weren't so busy trying to understand each piece as it makes itself felt - political rumbles here, business failures there, the social failures that lead to food banks in some of the wealthiest countries in the world - and we had stood still for a moment to join the dots of these changes, we wouldn't be so surprised. We may not have been able to be precise as to the detail of change, but the trend would have come as less of a surprise.

What if we're only just getting started? Whilst the change we've been seeing can be disorienting, I suspect it's nothing compared to what is approaching us…