The corona pandemic is confronting us with previously unimaginable problems. We all have to submit to previously unimaginable restrictions.
Why?
The coronavirus is beyond human imagination. The coronavirus is multiplying exponentially. For us humans this is incomprehensible. We humans reproduce linearly. Therefore our imagination is also linear. All of our solutions are linear. And so the virus has an easy play with us humans.
Here is the unimaginable graph of Excess(!)Mortality in Austria last year:
The virus not only multiplies explosively, it also kills us explosively. At the beginning of November we pulled the emergency brake and went into “lockdown”. Using ALL OUR FORCES, we have temporarily fought back the virus and curbed its lust for murder against us humans.
We are dealing with an enemy who finds us on our weakest side: our imagination. To this day, we cannot imagine what is happening. We only recognize the powerlessness which we are suddenly confronted. And that frightens us to panic and drives us into a blind rage.
We are dealing with an enemy we do not understand. We only have one chance: the virus is stupid, dumber than us. The virus doesn’t feel, the virus doesn’t think. The virus reproduces blindly. And it kills us blindly.
We humans, on the other hand, feel and think. The virus seems to be defeating us in our feelings: We feel powerlessness, fear, pain and anger. Suddenly we become loveless, selfish beings and fall for the pied piper. The virus seems to be defeating us, against each other. Now finally we humans are fighting against each other. The virus appears to have won. We humans are finally fighting against ourselves.
Let’s pause for a moment and think about it for a moment: We already know the “exponential” explosive nature of the virus. We already know the properties of the virus from another “friend”. We already know the exponential function from “money”. Money also multiplies explosively, “exponentially”.
Here is the chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Index on the New York Stock Exchange:
Here we see the development of the Dow Jones since 1900. The value of New York stocks is also growing explosively, “exponentially”. The rich get richer and richer, the poor stay poor – and thus get poorer and poorer. The explosive growth of the share value was stopped only twice in our lifetime: after Nine-Eleven in 2001 and during the financial crisis after 2008. Shortly afterwards everything went back to normal.
The virus multiplies EXACTLY like money. Both are beyond our imagination. We all only feel complete powerlessness, panic fear, deep pain and blind anger. How do we humans want to deal with it?
Our common response to this will determine the future of all of us.
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Vienna Calling 