Only the laziest person doesn’t write or say that humanity is in a global crisis. Is it good for all of us or bad? In the fairy tale form the crisis is shown in the fairy tale “The Little Humpbacked Horse,” where the main character dives into boiling milk (at the risk of dying) and is born from it in a new social status: he became a king and a married man, with a different perception of himself. On the whole, the crisis did him good.
Wikipedia defines crisis as: “A crisis is a turning point, a coup, a time of transition, a turning point, a condition in which the existing means of achieving goals become inadequate, resulting in unpredictable situations.
What do you think, reader? I like it because it doesn’t sound hopeless: humanity is moving into a new state, but if the means of achieving the goals remain the same, then we end up with unpredictable situations. As you know, no one predicted a pandemic. Consequently, we already have one unpredictable situation. I think we’ve all had enough.
How not to recall again the Chinese curse: May you live in the days of great change! But we, alas, do not choose the times in which we live. It remains for us to pay special attention to the part of the definition of crisis that tells us how to avoid new unpredictable situations. It turns out that everything rests in the “means of achieving the goals,” that is, these means should not be the same and must correspond to the new state of humanity.
The problem again: What is this new state of humanity? We live in it. But, as we know, even S. Yesenin said: “You can’t see a face to face. You can see great things from a distance. Strange as it may seem, however, the pandemic can help us understand something about the current state of humanity.
Recently, our purely human dependence on each other became vividly apparent: the quarantine, the two-meter distance, the masks hiding our facial expressions-all of this proved so burdensome that it exceeded even the natural human fear of contracting covid. And in many countries people have taken to the streets demanding that the restrictions that divide us be lifted.
We realized that we could not remain human beings alone. Think of the pictures of people’s joy when they finally come together. And although we too often have to think of ourselves as separate from others, in fact we are all connected, and our every action affects everyone else.
Of course, what has changed in people’s lives in just the last decade could be listed for a long time. However, I think it’s very important that we have seen for ourselves how much we need each other. So, at least one aspect of the changing state of humanity we have established.
However, as the definition of crisis implies, unpredictable, unpleasant situations can be avoided only if the means of achieving the goals become adequate to the new state of humanity. What are these new means of achieving goals?
To answer this question, I think we must first of all honestly admit that the old, current way of achieving goals does not shy away from going over the heads of those who stand in the way. Selfishness is rampant, and this approach has resulted in a comprehensive crisis and pandemic that is sweeping the globe.
Let us hope that the common malaise of mankind will be properly diagnosed, which, as we know, is the basis of successful treatment. We all face an old but difficult task: to realize, at last, not in words but in action, that everyone’s well-being depends on the well-being of others.
