One global question floating in our collective minds repeatedly asks: how will we be transformed by this crisis? What will the future look like? These questions are also educational. This is a time for difficult questions, and reflection. A few immediate facts subsist, dramatically highlighted by the action of this global virus and the containment measures taken at planetary scale: how humans are globally interconnected how global communications become dominant and crucial media to allow for our subsistence, beyond fear and isolation how humans must assume individual responsibility to preserve the Other, the collective We how humans have so seriously damaged and destroyed our common house, putting humanity in peril. Kennedy in a 1963 eulogy for Robert Frost)At the time of writing the human world is shut down to face a global, powerful, and invisible enemy identified as COVID-19.
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