We are wrong to call COVID-19 a pandemic; it’s a global crisis whose trigger was the pandemic. The crisis was a bomb waiting to explode long before the outbreak, and the coronavirus simply tipped the world off the cliff it’s…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
It’s Gotten to Our Children
It started with the sick and elderly, but no one was alarmed. Then healthy elderly began to die and we got slightly worried. After some time, grownups in their 50s, 40s, and their 30s started to get sick and die,…
The Virus Now Hits Children Too
We’re seeing the emergence of the expected escalation: The virus is infecting children. In Spain, the UK, and in the US, children are beginning to get sick and die. At the same time, we’re “reopening the economy.” Stuck between the…
A Caring Mother for a Better Humanity
After the current pandemic, no other power in the world is more crucial for the birth of a new society than the mother figure. The world is now being revealed as an integral, global system. This means that the world…
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Posted in Articles, Coronavirus, Social Mutual Responsibility
Redefining Our Selves
The coronavirus will impel us to reevaluate everything. First, it demonstrated how much we really need each other—by denying us physical contact and sending us to stay home. Next, it highlighted the imperfections of the economy—how unfit it is to…
Straightening Up the Economy
We never knew it, but our economy has been standing upside down for more than a century. Instead of catering to our needs, we had catered to the “needs” of the economy. We worried about growth, production, consumption, and trade…
Above Our Petty Selves
Detecting new phases in the development of humanity is easy: If a new level of interconnection and interdependence emerges, it’s a sign that we’ve moved into a new phase. COVID-19 is a classic case of emergence of a new phase.…
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Clicking the World’s Restart Button
We have no choice. COVID-19 has exposed the world as one integral system and we need to adapt to it. The forecast of the international scientific community warns of subsequent waves and aftershocks of the pandemic and other natural blows…
You Cannot Step into the Same River Twice
We may be relieved that the economy is reopening and we are coming out of the lockdown, but as Heraclitus said, “You cannot step into the same river twice.” Our pre-coronavirus way of life will not return. We have entered…
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Posted in Articles, Coronavirus, Global Economy
The Case for the Ego
We often state that the human ego causes all the problems and without it everything would be great in the world. But there’s a very good reason for the existence of the enormous human ego. The ego is what separates…
Unprecedented Crisis
Humanity is moving toward an unprecedented crisis. There have been crises before—economic and social crises, when the ego of one country collided with another, or several other countries. But now we’re moving into a completely different type of crisis. We’re…
COVID-19 Sent Us Home And Cleaned Up the Mess
If you were a parent with teenage children, and you had to leave the house for the weekend, how terrified would you be that when you returned you’d find your tidy home turned upside down? And what would you do…