Subject: The damage already done to the environment and the radicall
Comment:
See Original Content on OpEd News in article titled "Trump's Fascist Invasion and War Against Portland"
The damage already done to the environment and the radically growing gap between the rich and the poor are only the tip of the iceberg vis-Ã -vis the massive adversity factors which we can expect to face in the 2020's and 2030's: others include dwindling nonrenewable resources, spreading pollution, overpopulation, rainforest destruction, massive extinction of animal and plant species, climate disruption, pandemics, refugee crises, and addiction. Given the inter-retroactions between our different problems, crises, and threats, we can accurately name our situation in its totality as "a polycrisis."
Leaders will be very tempted to deal with what Naomi Wolf has called "disaster Capitalism" similarly to Trump's authoritarian/fascism. This can be predicted to include provoking, and then cracking down on violence.
Speaking of humanity's desperate need for "a reform in thinking," Edgar Morin describes the all-too-common black/white, right/wrong, either/or approach to solving problems as a mode of thought that is""simplistic in the extreme, which underlies so many dialogues, [leading] inevitably to dead-ends"[This occurs in part because it is] blind to inter-retro actions and circular causality." Morin argues that, only a complex kind of thinking (which he also describes as "holographic," "recursive," and "dialogic") can provide the perspective to help release us from the quicksand in which we are mired. Only, what he calls "complex thinking" can "deal with the "inseparability of problems"in which each depends on the other." Such a reform in thinking, Morin summarizes, implies a mental revolution "of considerably greater proportions than the Copernican revolution."