As the systems are shaken there
is a general view that we have entered uncertain times! To make it clear world
was always uncertain. Life lives by negotiating edges of ever present chaos. That
is how species evolve by being under constant loop with ever changing reality. Indeed
most human being live with amazing insecurities, negotiating life as it
presents. It is very few who are controlling and negotiating the systems that
find themselves suddenly thrown into chaos. With Trump blasting neoliberal
ecosystem of understanding of Left and Right with his carefully nurtured transactional
world view, add to the uncertainties of climate breakdown, AI, as also herd
getting weaponised through social media thus giving new vigor to atavistic concerns
and juvenile preoccupations of religion. Delicately balanced political correctness
(the consequences of which were delegated to common people) is now collapsed under
woke debris. This stable world that was orchestrated as “progress” was very much
confined to few, ofcourse much of the world is relatively better off thanks to comforts
and conveniences provided by innovative technologies, socialist concerns of
state across most of the world, and egalitarian value system in some societies that
create resilience and social safety net. What is more this growth was hinged on
unlimited supply. This unlimited supply for unlimited neoliberal growth was to
be provided by exploiting earth and people. Clearly life giving ecosystems are collapsing
as also income disparities have increased. Neoliberal capitalism was kept
isolated from reality through wanton exploitations -that created spurts of
material benefits, while morphing these through sophisticated economic jargons of
development and management language of efficiency, and creating incentive to
join the system to be successful –for which religion provided compelling validation.
