Weekly Reflections 27th September

What I’ve noticed.

There's been a sense of fatigue in the air. Perhaps it was the Autumn Equinox, or the reimposition of Covid related restrictions, or the dawning realisation of the end of the blanket job support schemes to something more nuanced. Whatever it was, I found it reflected in conversations, mails, LinkedIn posts. Not as pronounced as depression, but a real presence nonetheless. There's a shift in the air.

Indigenous North Americans had a name for it. Variously Wendigo, Windigo or Wetiko, it was a mythical monster created by an unwillingness to share. The more it had, the more it craved and the more extreme and brutal its exploits became. It could not be satiated. It appeared as Summer turned to Winter, when the "time of plenty" gave way to the Hunger Moon.

We seem to have created something of a Wetiko Economy. Corporations that have the rights of people, but not the responsibilites and whose sole purpose is to consume ever increasing amounts of human and natural resource whi…