A challenge facing humanity in that one does quite know what to do or how to react. Are we that vulnerable that for once, we are almost faced with extinction? Is it nature’s way of saying to greedy humanoids that it is time to face up to reality and ensures that one does no longer seek to carry on exploiting the world resources and keep on damaging the world ecosystem? Is it not a fact that humans are solely responsible to have caused so much harassment not only to one another but to the environment as a whole? A case of ignoring others for that petty self which is of paramount importance whilst any lesser other/ others animate or inanimate viewed as being mere non -entities Or is it a call for leaders to have a different vision: Perhaps a way of being which does not ignore but acknowledge, or start to relate to the world order not from a materialistic concern but at least considering the above and beyond. May we be really reflective rather than engage in brute force as a mode of being.
Humans are also responsible to lead a life as if we are a separate entity as if all else need to be subservient to them. We make the rules and create borders and set boundaries about and lead a fragmented way of life. Or, we are also good at creating divisions and at causing suffering. A kind of a law of the jungle is always in operation where what seems to matter is one’s own way of being. Separateness par excellence! That so much is down to frictions and negativism is all too obvious.
Far too long we have unduly kept on being violent and causing harm is all too obvious to any observer but to ourselves as a specie.Leading a kind of a recluse life which shows seeds of hatred amongst oneself as an entity as one seeks to face problems to adopting a way which plunders all else that comes in its way whether it is through organised crime against others or those simple of similar injustices one posits to the other in our relationship. A way of life where one which somehow keeps abusing others and takes a condescending view and or whatever one perceives may be adopted as a norm and so the vicious circle of a way of life based on n understanding of what matters is only that self, community, nation of which one is a part to a new idea of a world order which also is being threatened. A global plague transcends petty barriers and causes one to think and be reflective. Can one ignore the signs of the times? Or is there a way out of this sudden global challenge? What may one do as an individual? Or not do for that matter?
How to be is never seen as an option as all is set and maybe we should carry on and carry on leading that form of existence which deny others being. The others are negated and far long has been relegated and abused in service of humanoids. Nature suddenly calling halt and ask us to be reflective and proactive rather than reactive. It is about a question of facing up to the test of the times. A virus has appeared in some part of the world and now spreading around and about the world which is threatening the fabric of the world order. What can or may be done? Is it a normal way which any case is a century affair which strikes and or seems to help recreating another world order? Is it time for reflection?
From a materialistic perspective, there will always be a way forward where all similar problems are no more than challenges through which we shall get through …. In this case at what cost? This problem surfacing around may also challenge the authorities and their wisdom of being leaders of society. To be sure, there is call for calm amidst the hazard which is about. It is no more than a different challenge which may be overcome more swiftly than first thought of as observers are already noticing a pattern to behold as we are living in the early stages of that virus.
So, it is a plague not confined to a town or a village as Camus celebrated novel described which was confined to an isolated community. Here, there is no hiding place. The whole world is threatened in its quest for health. Ordinary lives a re disturbed. A global problem to be faced to: What may be done?
Is this going to be a threat to our existence? Or could it be end of humanoids as a specie? Or it is nature’s way of recreating a balance where it is always the latter which has caused all the imbalance in the world order? From another angle, we have been a pest as a specie to the world order…. always interfering and keep on recreating aspects of imbalance in the world order.
From an ecological perspective, it is clear that humans are the problem always interfering for its own benefits even to the detriment of others. What others may say the naïve? It is all about us and to be sure about me in the final resort where the arrogant nature takes over where the weaker others falls prey to brutality unchecked and, in many cases, these become a norm which the crude thrives upon. Morally and even in some theological views, the latter are to be pointed fingers at in a big way. Some others see that humanoids lacks from a holistic perspective leading a much-fragmented way of relating rather than seeing everything in a more comprehensive aspect. All that would matter is a lack, or differences which makes the absurd flourish in a world where arrogance as well as frictions reign; indeed where the holistic is relegated, abandoned floor a rash approach of reactionary ways and the sense of being-ness given up to that which is superficial and hate and anger also takes primary stage in its prime.
Is it a question of rude awakening rather than being a mere pawn? Or may one simply carry on in passivity mode? And or accepts one’s in-situation as being all set and accept fate. What does the challenge of such a plague pose to our being? There is a call to move onwards from our arrogance and violence on towards recreating another world order. Who will take heed of the signs of the times?