Parachute effect

I have been fascinated by this idea of being dropped in chaos. So much of the culture we have built has come in the last 200 years, and today, we reinforce it while simultaneously making decisions that affect those who will go next. It’s an interesting idea to live with past choices and have the power to make positive changes for the future.

No one decided to move from hunter-gathers to farming and then to industrialism. And yet, we collectively did. No responsibility, and yet we are all responsible.

I am calling this the parachute effect since we are born into the current chaos of things. 150 years ago, 85% of the workforce were farmers. Today, it is only 4%. We are all products of the time.