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I, for one, am grateful for having lived through 2020. Yes, it has been challenging, and for some a tragic year. However, if we take time to assess 2020 calmly, we will see that it was a year that promised humanity a new dawn:
Lessons that I have gleaned from 2020
I subscribe to the view that reality is something we actively construct and try to sustain. We, it can be argued try to maintain, and treat reality as a living organism. As agents in building our lived reality, we invest in it, and we seek to sustain and keep it alive. Our values and beliefs are the properties that create and maintain reality. However, we allow ourselves to believe that the world that we have constructed possess an objective truth. Aligned with this is the idea that there is no alternative to this reality.
Reality as an organism.
In this organism, some deem themselves to have higher levels of control and privilege. This higher order: the elite, convince the self-defined lower level of the organism that the ‘whole’s’ survival is dependent on preserving the order of things.
The year 2020
The life we are living today we could not have imagined we would be today living. One can argue that the nations with the highest numbers of Covid cases tried to preserve the status quo. Countries…
