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We are the ones we've always been waiting for

Nobody doubts that these are difficult times for humanity. In fact, they are so difficult that one does not know if it is a change from one historical epoch to another or if we are approaching the end of humanity. And there is no doubt about the inability of leaders and experts to do anything to change and improve the situation.

Faced with this situation, in this moment of high volatility, constant uncertainty, maximum complexity, and infinite ambiguity; in this historical moment in which we no longer know who we are, what to do. or where we are going, seeing the inexperience (and, sometimes, the stupidity) of leaders, it's up to us to become the ones we've always been waiting for.

In other words, this is the time to become who we really are, to bring into the present our best future version, to rise to the level necessary to respond to the challenge, to change our perspective and broaden our historical horizon in order to co-create a new future.

Every day we see again and again that leaders (be they politicians, scientists, educators, or whoever) seem to be constantly improvising without ever coming up with answers to our problems. The reason is simple: they cling to a world that is dying and, therefore, they cannot make room for the world that is being born. 

However, the speed of change – be it societal, technological, generational, educational, or even planetary change – is so rapid, overwhelming, and disorienting that the time for improvising solutions is long past. In fact, the time of repeating the past and perpetuating the present is over.

We must even say that the time of solving problems is over: we are now in the time of changing systems. However, the death pains of the old system and the birth pains of the new system are so great that clearly the transition will be very difficult, perhaps even terrifying.

For this reason, to those of us who live in this era in which the pandemic adds to the constant threat of the total destruction of the planet (whether by nuclear war or global warming, or whatever), and in which artificial intelligence threatens to replace and displace humans, it is up to us, ordinary people, to respond to a challenge seldom, if ever, seen in human history.

In other words, it is our responsibility to transform ourselves into those we always hoped would come to help us. We are those "helpers" and now we have the responsibility to implement creative and innovative solutions for the benefit of everyone and everything: all people and all living beings on the planet, including the planet.

It is even possible that -as NASA recently hiring theologians shows- in a short time we will meet intelligent beings from other planets. In that context, as the rabbinical sage Hillel the Elder said: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now when?".

 

 

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