It is no wonder that soft (or not so soft) dictatorship and autocracy are spreading throughout the world. It makes people less certain, more vulnerable and manipulable. This reduces and challenges custom, continuity, tradition, habit, stability, security. Consciousness is crowded by ‘nows’ packaged as social ideologies that compete for attention and adherence. The “neighbourhood” is now in many ways electronic and it has permitted or imposed a very new and often dislocating set of adjacencies, different scales, different social frameworks. Such conditions (likely, among others) are exerting enormous pressure on social memory and turning the past into an opaque yesteryear drained of lesson or guidance. The rootless physical and emotional geography of the digital space, and our quickly shifting protocols for social interaction Īn emergent ‘Age of Worry’ flowing from emanations and transmissions of pending ecosystem collapse.
The folly of faith in a ‘return’ to previous economic, social, or political states of relative or seeming stability The demographics of aging and stresses of mass migration as Canada ‘seeks’ 500,000 immigrants per year El-Erian’s widely circulated contention that the roiling global economy signals that globalization as a way of understanding civilizational evolution and the aspirations of governance is changing, maybe passing and that national postures appear to be more territorial, more defensive Ī world-wide movement asserting Indigenous rights, land and natural heritage ownership The significant and enduring social trauma, far beyond health impacts, imposed globally by the Covid pandemic Įconomist Mohammed A.
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If we try to build some picture of our times, free of the conceit that “this is Canada and we’re different,” we must be sure to include: Hold on to the writer’s closing phrase, “actually do something.” Isn’t it a fact that we do plenty of somethings, but somehow they seem to be the wrong somethings or maybe they’re the right ones but in the wrong proportions or sequence, or the wrong people or agencies are doing them, or the social signals seem either over-simple or obscure and indecipherable and in any case they don’t produce the change or results people are hoping for. Blah blah blah…How much more is going to be thrown at us before we say enough and actually do something?” Yet here we are in a global crisis that is not being taken seriously… People are doing without, fighting to survive…but nobody is listening. In part it stated: “We are in a mess that has no way out. It seemed remarkable for its emotional nakedness, its anxiety and despair, and because it captures the viewpoint and sentiments of an ever-widening slice of the public. Online discussion of the emotional difference between major and minor musical keysĪ SHORT LETTER TO THE EDITOR caught my attention a while back. One little change on that third note has the power to make you feel hope or dread…lit up or left in the dark.
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