Early 20th Century Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci exemplifies our human tendency to glorify the times in which we live with this popular quote:
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is a time of monsters.”
Even the most casual student of human history will soon see that the old world is always dying and the new world is always struggling to be born.
And every time is a time of monsters.
The only difference is in the details of how the world and its monsters under the circumstances then prevailing.
The question we always need to be engaging with, in conversation at the vanguard of public is discourse is:
What are the monsters of our times?
Climate corruption journalist Rachel Donald frames the challenge less dramatically, in her Planet:Critical podcast, where she challenges each of her guests with these two framing questions:
“Why is the world in crisis?
And what are we going to do about it?”
These are perennial questions, because the world is always in crisis, and we are always working to figure out what we are going to do about it.
The reason is that the world in which we humans live is a world that we make for ourselves, through our technologies, by working together in enterprise.
And enterprise – people working together – always creates conflict:
- within ourselves;
- with each other;
- with our planet; and
- with our future.
And we are always working to resolve these conflicts.
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