It is interesting to observe how fragile and reckless our capitalist, consumer-oriented and hedonistic society is.
People have never really had anything under control. Control is just a construct of our minds. This starts on a small scale with ourselves and can easily be extended to the bigger picture.
This has probably always been the case. It seems to be deeply human. Capitalism comes very close to human needs, which is why this system seems to work in principle. However, neither those in charge nor us citizens seem to be aware of how fragile it is.
We seem to believe that something is permanent, secure, irrefutable... our times now show us unequivocally that this is not the case. All it takes is a small virus to unsettle and disrupt the whole world and entire economies, or even destroy them completely if the virus becomes even more dynamic. People are no longer buying Corona beer, they are hoarding pasta and toilet paper, damaging the healthcare system and its relevant supply chains. This has nothing to do with education, reflection or fair play. This has always been the case and can easily be applied to many other areas.
20,000 (or many more) refugees living in inhumane camps, whether children, women or men, are driving the EU to the brink of madness, while other countries are taking in millions of them. We are such a lazy, fat, spoilt and, above all, self-righteous continent with a deadly penchant for isolationism. Not for us, of course, we believe.
And so back to SARS-CoV-2. We simply cannot keep everything under control. The loss of control has only just begun. It is likely that it will not simply disappear again like SARS-CoV (1) did at the time. People have never really had anything under control. Control is just a construct of our minds. It starts small with ourselves and can easily be extended to the bigger picture.
So as not to write too much, as I have touched on some truly bottomless topics, it is nevertheless interesting how reckless we all are and how unreflective and conservative many people think. In my view, the CDU/CSU is in the process of making itself completely superfluous, apart from the utterly unbearable AFD. However, all parties are clearly overwhelmed.
In the end, there is hardly anything our humanity can oppose to nature, something we Europeans have probably never understood, unlike some indigenous peoples and primitive tribes. Only together as a global community can we improve conditions for all people (and by that I don't mean our prosperity). We are globally connected. I hope that the future, also through networking, will bring with it a little more humility, prudence, reflection and less individual or collective self-importance, even if I don't believe in it.
Live long and prosper
MP
