The myth of the great transition

Being alive is a mysterious miracle that can make us delirious with happiness. And yet things are not going well for us. Environmental catastrophes are imminent, and socio-economic disaster looms… People may have different opinions, but everyone knows the facts. The realization that we all have to make a great transition to a different model of society has been so widely accepted that it has been cast aside like a cliché. Been there, done that? Wrong. You have not been there yet. You might say, ‘No, thank you. To believe that mankind is capable of a great transition is a dangerous myth’. Indeed. And I will tell you that myth. Recognizing that our existence is shaped by fictions is perhaps the only form of freedom which mankind is capable of.