No more words for ‘Future’
How uncertainty became our first nature
Everybody is nowadays talking of change: change of habits, of identity, climate or sustainable underwear brands. Change is one of those few constants we know, ‘shuffling’ is being ‘in tune’ with the times.
Change of perspective — once a concept that brought the freshness of reinventing ‘‘one better self’’ — is as obsolete as the human centred world. There are less common dreams and stories of a possible common future that keep the hope of some longer lasting utopia, that place that, once reached, requires no change…
And, as a result, the myths of ‘progress’ and ‘productivity’ are slowly fading away and are being (silently) questioned.
Suffering from an overload of choices, as Alvin Toeffler put it in the ’70 ‘Future Shock’ is a prediction that obviously came true, whether we accept it or not. As indirect effects, some feel too much in control (or the responsibility of being in control), some too less, and it’s pretty uncomfortable in both sides of these unbalanced polarities, as much as being suspended somewhere in between.
The shock, surrounded by fear and anxiety of a future that is not only unknown, but also inconceivable outside its human centrist dimension, paralyses the individual.
So what next? Can society actually detach so much from human condition to see the intrinsic planetary ‘hyperlink’ we seem to miss, even we are already part of?
Diary notes for the self-fulfilled
The ‘world’ as we used to know it, is getting old. HUMAN CENTRISM is at its basis. So how to change the perspective?
It’s like asking from a tiger not to to think of its next prey.
Living humbly and observing life unfolding, finding joy and purpose in discovering all dimensions of life around us — at micro and macro level — might be the key.
Abandon the ‘mighty’ tech dream, abandon interplanetary colonialism, either it’s building malls on Mars, cover the Sun, or turning Moon into our greenhouse…
Looking for a(nother) ‘virgin’ planet while being stuck in our earthly perspective, tells no more than we’d actually like to go ‘back to’ innocence rather than exploiting new resources on distant lands, that the adventure of being pioneers needs to restart by giving our planet new chances. And that does not include the business as usual model, in fact it’s what keeps us ‘getting old’.
We are more part of nature than we’d like to separate ourselves from. So how can we escape human centrism?
How to ask the human, as we tried with the tiger, not to think from its narrow ‘I am different and special’ perspective?
