How to Survive in a World that Lost its Mind
A small guide on how to make it through our sense-making crisis
Humanity is experiencing probably its deepest meaning crisis since, well, maybe forever.
Can you still make sense of what’s happening out there?
Most people can’t, they’ve given up completely. And I don’t blame them.
Armies of the population have lost their homegrown ability to even think well. The result? They gladly outsource the authority over their own lives to third party decision-makers likes Governments, Science and Technology.
How about you?
Can you still divide this complex world into digestible chunks so you can go to bed at night peacefully? Do you understand today’s complicated dynamics and apparently opposed narratives? Can you look beyond? Do you have the scope, capacity and time to make meaningful connections?
To feel safe and belong in this world that has gone bananas?
Here’s some advice to make it through this meaning giving crisis.
Ask Critical Questions
In this podcast, lawyer Reiner Fuellmich points out that democracy has its foundations in two things. People that are able to ask themselves and others critical questions and enough folks that have a sense of ethical and moral guidelines.
Here comes the first problem.
In responding to an apparent very critical pandemic-like situation, humanity decided to skip the critical questions part as a result of a worldwide emergency response.
Ever since we’ve forgotten to collectively switch the be-critical button back on again.
This, and widespread censorship of other ideas, comes from the alpha-narrative that has been introduced that we’ll only be able to fight off the nasty bugger if we stand in one line, give away our freedoms, and turn other people in that don’t by means of social blame and shame.
How odd.
Critical thinkers that dare to point out that the bug is less lethal than the flu or that mouth caps don’t work have now become ‘health dissidents’. Amongst them are thousands of…