Now is the time for Change! But how?

So much has already been written about the current situation. We are all stuck at home while sitting out the Carona virus plague trying to escape and stay safe and thinking about things "out there".

I doubt whether there is anything I can add that is new. 

Nevertheless I have a need to write something, if only to myself.

This is an opportunity for a reassessment, "Heshbon Nefesh" about our individual lives, our communities and societies, and the human world and its relation to Nature.

We are all too aware that we are going in a bad direction when a little virus can cause so much social, economic and health damage. My greatest fear is that when this is all over we will go back to how we were living before.

We have neglected our health services, abandoned the poor, and got caught up in a greedy, materialisitc civilization that is destroying our natural environment at an ever accelerating pace.

Some of us have tried to invest time in countering these evils but we are a minority, shunted aside, ignored, or worse, while the world continues on its merry way.

Now, with this pause in the human madness there is a time in which we might be able to turn things around before it is too late! 

But how can we do so when so much wealth and power is concentrated in so few hands and we are socially alienated and fragmented? When we are bombarded with "false news", political and economic propaganda, endless ads, and the pressures of surving economically?

There is a need for new leadership, leadership that is modest and honest, that cares about the world and the human future. 

And there is a need for...sanity and humility...for spirtual renewal and a renewal of respect for each other and the world we live in.

These are fine words, but how do we get there?