Years ago I read a comic called planetary which featured a character who was, in essence, Th e living embodiment of the century. It got me to thinking about the idea of the planet as more of a living thing than a rock with water and algae. Living things have protective systems and layers of action that we won’t always understand or even recognize.
I realized today that every 100 years since human population started to really explode there has been a contagion which has threatened the population. These have become progressively more intelligent. The latest in the string is the Corona Virus of 2019, passionately known as Covid-19. The virus is quickly shutting down the operation of our human ecology. It is exposing the lifeform-like nature of the human economy. As things slow to a crawl, money stops moving and people—even those high up the financial rungs—are left holding debt. This difficult reality continues to shape policy in many nations, including the USA, where millions of us live paycheck to paycheck and are realizing that the paychecks are near stopping. Not everyone has cash stashed away. Those who do cannot last indefinitely. What happens when we can’t buy food. Not just to us but to the stores that rely on the paycheck to paycheck crowd to survive and are often the driving force behind the economy.
our president is a businessman and the thing he understands most is that stopping screws up the money. This is even more pronounced when our country is valued globally because of the money we spend.