I think that this novel virus is a chance for a novel kind of thinking about our situation as humans in society. More than a crisis in our relationship with earth and nature at large, it's a crisis in human relationships. And this one, is something we can start correcting right away!
Using found footage from the mannequin challenge that trended a few years ago around the world. Thank you everyone who stood still for a minute not knowing your're going to be part of a powerful message to humanity.
Inspired by text I found on gratefulweb: https://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/imagined-letter-covid-19-humans
Illuminated by what I read about the crisis here: http://www.kabbalah.info/net
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(Listen) Stop. Just stop. It is no longer a request. It's a mandate. I will help you. I will bring the supersonic, high-speed merry-go-round to a halt I will stop the planes the trains the schools the malls the meetings the frenetic, furious rush of illusions and “obligations” that keep you from hearing our single and shared beating heart, Your obligation is to each other, As it has always been, even if, even though, you have forgotten. I will interrupt this broadcast, the endless cacophonous broadcast of divisions and distractions, of greed and exploitation, of yesterday’s news to bring you this long-breaking news: You are not well. None of you are; you are all suffering. The firestorms of anger and political division did not give you pause Neither did the tsunamis of depression and rising waves of suicide. The feverish consumption at the expense of everyone and everything You have not been listening. It is hard to listen when you are so busy all the time, hustling to uphold the comforts and conveniences that scaffold your lives. But the foundation is giving way, buckling under the weight of your excessive egoistic desires, of your indifference to the other’s needs I will help you. I will bring the feverish fires to your body I will bring the flooding to your lungs I will isolate you in your life just as you have isolated your hearts that you might hear: You are not well. Despite what you might think or feel, I am not the enemy. I am a messenger, an ally, information. I am a balancing force. asking you: To stop, to be still, to listen; To look at your fellow human, see him, notice her mood, feel his state. How much do you need those around you to be happy and healthy so that you may also be healthy? How does their health contribute to the health of the tree, who contributes to the health of the sky, who contributes to the health of the river, so that you may also be healthy? Many are afraid now. But you are all afraid together. This is a start. Change is afoot. I am not the crisis but the knocking of an opportunity. Stop. Listen to it. The day you start relating to everybody else as if your life depended on them even without the threat of infection is the day I will disappear. I will help you, if you listen. -With love, Covid-19
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