Hope offers us clarity that, amid the uncertainty ahead, there will be conflicts worth joining and the possibility of winning some of them.
Yes, instead of stay away from them, involve into could gain a great deal of experience, no matter good or bad, all of these affect people positively.
Seven years ago, Patrisse Cullors wrote a sort of mission statement for Black Lives Matter: “Provide hope and inspiration for collective action to build collective power to achieve collective transformation.
Reminds me the song "White Privilege II," by Macklemore.
But this is also a time of depth for those spending more time at home and more time alone, looking outward at this unanticipated world.
depth of the time??..... Can not understand. It is general for those who already parasitic in room.
When a caterpillar enters its chrysalis, it dissolves itself, quite literally, into liquid.
nice metaphor. Indeed, people change every single second.
There’s a way that our getting and spending has been a kind of war against the Earth.
It might be a good suggestion to set up a stay home day per month, to protect environment.
But often the most significant consequences of disasters are not immediate or direct.
I thought it is directly affect people though......
Ireland nationalised its hospitals, something “we were told would never happen and could never happen,” an Irish journalist commented.
Again, country stablility is the priority, even it might affect a great deal of folks.
In the emergency legislation passed in the US in March, many workers gained new sick-leave rights.
Support the front idea.
What she told me about the aftermath of the 1972 earthquake in Managua – that, despite the dictatorship’s crackdown, it helped bring on the revolution – was unforgettable.
Most of revolution are result from dictatorship, and disasters.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers,
Seriousl?!, I think it is the way people live.
We may rethink the wisdom of having much of our most vital stuff – medicine, medical equipment – made on other continents.
People should prepare for unknown.
When we are no longer trying to unlink ourselves from the chain of a spreading disease, I wonder if we will rethink how we were linked, how we moved about and how the goods we rely on moved about.
Yes, disasters mostly connect people with people.
We encounter epic acts of courage and citizenship each day in our neighbourhoods and in other cities and countries, instances that whisper to us that the depredations of a few will eventually be overcome by legions of stubborn people who refuse the counsel of despair, violence, indifference and arrogance that so-called leaders appear so eager nowadays to trigger.”
Interesting.
“Let us love this distance, which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated.”
Yes, it is very baldness to stay with the same person for a long time is boring.
hen a storm subsides, the air is washed clean of whatever particulate matter has been obscuring the view, and you can often see farther and more sharply than at any other time.
Interesting. Like what my father told me.
Our rulers showed little willingness to recognise the ominous possibilities of the pandemic in the US, the UK, Brazil and many other countries.
A significant example from Trump,D. "Coronavirus is not matter"
The idea that everything is connected is an affront to conservatives who cherish a macho every-man-for-himself frontier fantasy.
????? what's the affront about.
Historically, there have always been titans of industry who prized the lifeless thing that is profit over living beings, who paid bribes in order to operate unhindered, worked children to death or put labourers in mortal danger in sweatshops and coal mines.
A simple example, Slavery, triangle trade.
The billionaire evangelist who owns the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby claimed divine guidance in keeping his workers at their jobs when businesses were ordered to close.
What a "brilliant" decision. Use religion as the tool to control people's mind. There is no difference between asking people working under virus, and murder.
The mainstream media colluded in obsessing about looting in the aftermath of Katrina. The stock of mass-manufactured goods in large corporate chain stores seemed to matter more than people needing food and clean water, or grandmothers left clinging to roofs.
I would say this condition would not occur in China; instead of industry, citizens matter, mentioned by "Xi"
When elites describe “panic” and “looting” in the streets, these are usually misnomers for ordinary people doing what they need to do to survive or care for others.
In fact, it would not happen. Due to the terms of "egoism" from psychology.
proclamation
something related to "problem"?
The first lesson a disaster teaches is that everything is connected.
Yes, everything matter, everything corelated with each other. Decision making is a big deal on being a human.What human destroys today will be paid for in the future. (e.x. CO2)
We were adjusting to the profound social and economic changes, studying the lessons disasters teach, equipping ourselves for an unanticipated world
In orther words, in order to prepare themselves for an unknown world, people were learning from disasters, and matching the changing of social and economic.
What is weak breaks under new pressure, what is strong holds, and what was hidden emerges.
The terms of "social Darwinism," strong alive and weak die, and the new virus occur recently could support this sentence.
The word “catastrophe” comes from a root meaning a sudden overturning.
Yah, just like recently circumstance. Due to Coronavirus, every people stay at home to contribute anti-epidemic. Before it is hard to contribute something at home, people have to go out and involve in.
Disasters begin suddenly and never really end
Yes, every disasters begin suddenly, as people always not care about only one and two case, and virus outbreak.