Much of the current state of the world makes sense when we look at it through the lens of trauma.
We've all been traumatised -- chronically by the effects of (for example) climate change, and acutely by the effects of a pandemic.
People are flailing to make sense of a reality that keeps defying sense. It defies expectations. It defies normal.
Additionally, we're all feeling the need to be make up for lost time. We're afraid of missing out, of being left behind. And we're experiencing burnout.
All these contradictory pressures and tensions -- speed up! slow down! -- are being elevated by a myriad of nascent, entrepreneurial voices with unlimited access to the public square.
Simultaneously, our would-be bulwark institutions are complicit in escalating trauma. Indeed, they seem eager to invent new ways to crash their credibility, and trash their trustworthiness.
It all feeds and is fed by a trauma paradigm.
Healing is worth pondering.
It's worth imagining.
It's worth acting on.