Incredible. The news is incredible. Every day news splashes across our screens that is incredibly apocalyptic, in a bad way; and incredibly revolutionary, in a good way. The curious and engaged amongst us witness extreme pessimism and extreme optimism every day. The forces in motion in today’s world are stupendous and can only be ignored at the risk of being totally inundated by change. This blog pulls together some of that news, the worrisome and the hopeful, the “news for those of us who are eager and anxious about the future.” You are welcome to attend because we are all in this together.
Look at the graphic that’s helped inaugurate the site. It is a person, covering their eyes, but peeking out between a gap in their fingers. The majority of people are working from the philosophy of, “See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.” They take that so far that they, “See nothing. Hear nothing. Speak nothing.”; except for what’s part of the common conventional wisdom, even if its source is an authority that is only serving its self-centered agenda. The antithesis is to see everything, hear everything, and speak about everything; which is an overwhelming way to live and a way to overwhelm everyone around you. To maintain sanity, it is necessary to consider only a slice of what’s happening; to filter out some, but not all; to know what to look for, and what not to be distracted by.
Pretending Not To Panic may be many things, at one point it was a screenplay and could be again, but this blog incarnation of it is one perusal of the news regarding the big topics and the big solutions. Ironically, the topics and solutions may be global, but best represented by individual’s actions. As resources allow, hopefully we can create a community for discussions that’s moderated to keep the trolls in control.
These are the times when we first have the capacity and the necessity for being aware of the global situation and the global solutions. Our society and civilization is global, and thinking nationally is anachronistic. This is also the time when debate is becoming secondary to action, regardless of the antiquated nature of our institutions. Financial inequality, climate change, social injustice, technological acceleration can not be ignored or stopped. We, as a species, are amazing at adapting. It is our greatest strength. We will adapt, and will do so for the good of the rest of the planet. Until we know we’ve succeeded, many of us will be pretending not to panic.
Pretending Not To Panic = #PNTP
Pretending Not To Panic 