“A pestilence isn’t a thing made to man’s measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away” – wrote Albert Camus in “The Plague”. But it’s already clear that this “dream” will not go away soon....
A transition towards a new state of balance (“new normal”) requires intermediate changes – which we usually feel to be changes for the worse. And we oppose them. A behaviour shared with the old, wise Mother Nature. Nothing changes until it really has to. In a similar...
