I wonder how often does such a threshold happen? I would say that people throughout the 21st century felt similarly. But are these threshold really “a new stage for humanity“?
There's a nice idealism to strive for, but the other reality is that people will keep grasping on things that are no longer working until and beyond the last possible moment, and literal death can seem preferable than giving up on lost dreams. And maybe that's okay, maybe suicide rates are increasing for young and old, and they are yet heroic deaths if we pay attention. Without that level of sacrifice and surrender the rest of us would try to pretend them all away. And there's a long tradition of individual or mass suicide as offering a public message "Something is fundamentally wrong that I can't fix" and its up to those of us who survive to wonder what that wrongness was for them, and if it is related to our feeling of wrongness, and see if we can find a better answer.
For example people who say "I'd rather get covid and die than admit masks or vaccines might help me", that's something to contend with, a level of distrust of authority that is hard to imagine. What do we make of that individualism? But once you admit you're willing to die for your convictions, you can ask what other convictions you have that oppose what society is saying. And maybe the antivaccers are REALLY fighting fear, which has paralyzed them for decades, and maybe some of them, maybe 10%, maybe 1% will, once they push past the fear, find a greater more legitimate fear that has to also be thrown down, if humanity is going to pass through our next mass test. You never know. And perhaps if there are angels, perhaps they'll talk to all of us, if we can listen, and you can't really know which "false conviction" isn't the best bridge to a true one, while we'd prefer to dismiss them all, if they are obviously wrong and stupid.
I return often to Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower when I contemplate change. Thank you Michael for your wisdom. All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.
Thank you for explaining this in simple ways we can all understand. 🌺✨💖💐🙏🏻
I wonder how often does such a threshold happen? I would say that people throughout the 21st century felt similarly. But are these threshold really “a new stage for humanity“?
There's a nice idealism to strive for, but the other reality is that people will keep grasping on things that are no longer working until and beyond the last possible moment, and literal death can seem preferable than giving up on lost dreams. And maybe that's okay, maybe suicide rates are increasing for young and old, and they are yet heroic deaths if we pay attention. Without that level of sacrifice and surrender the rest of us would try to pretend them all away.
And there's a long tradition of individual or mass suicide as offering a public message "Something is fundamentally wrong that I can't fix" and its up to those of us who survive to wonder what that wrongness was for them, and if it is related to our feeling of wrongness, and see if we can find a better answer.
For example people who say "I'd rather get covid and die than admit masks or vaccines might help me", that's something to contend with, a level of distrust of authority that is hard to imagine. What do we make of that individualism? But once you admit you're willing to die for your convictions, you can ask what other convictions you have that oppose what society is saying. And maybe the antivaccers are REALLY fighting fear, which has paralyzed them for decades, and maybe some of them, maybe 10%, maybe 1% will, once they push past the fear, find a greater more legitimate fear that has to also be thrown down, if humanity is going to pass through our next mass test. You never know. And perhaps if there are angels, perhaps they'll talk to all of us, if we can listen, and you can't really know which "false conviction" isn't the best bridge to a true one, while we'd prefer to dismiss them all, if they are obviously wrong and stupid.
I return often to Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower when I contemplate change. Thank you Michael for your wisdom.
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change.