I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.
Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.
What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.
It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.
We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.