Humanity is at it again: master storyteller for those who enjoy a good tale. This one comes by way of a man who would be king, a man in need of an enemy, fictional as it may be. And by way of a nation consumed by a fear of its own devising.
There are two truths. There used to be one.
Two truths. The narrative we tell ourselves, tell one another, to satisfy our worries, our fears, doubts, uncertainties. To conspire for what we desire, what we “need”, even, determined through the narrowest of lens, the shortest of plans in sight, foresight.
A new agent. An old paradigm.
With the recent introduction of a novel coronavirus — a nightmare unto the consciousness of a nation’s activity — we are once again facing our feared extinction. But not by the manner of a singular virus.
Change. The one constant in the continuation of all things. Indisputable, unavoidable that we as humanity must go through such transformations. It is part of the pattern of nature, of life, one we must endure to the end, with little choice in whether to weather change — only in how.
Freedom. Liberty. Synonyms. But not the same. Limited by our own filters, distanced by degrees of definition, action.
Freedom, by definition, is “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint”. And liberty as defined is simply “the state of being free; the power or scope to act as one pleases”.
Sounds similar by definition. Yet this is not what defines the essence of freedom…
21st century skills. Throughout the world, we are talking about 21st century skills as if these particular skills have found their place in this particular time in the evolution of humanity. For those less familiar, the skills I speak of include: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, adaptability. There are more, but these are generally agreed upon as the skills required to navigate the waters of the 21st century. And they represent more than merely the skills required for this century. These are the essentials skills for any century – including the period currently in play…
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What is the purpose of life but to live? And what is the destiny of humanity but to understand our relativity — to ourselves, to one another, to the nature of all things? For through the complexity of our diversity lay threads of simplicity. It is simply our fate to relate, to cooperate, to innovate to elevate.
And the simple truth that life exists for this reason among few others…
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Communication and collaboration—the ability to listen, understand, then do something meaningful with the information provided through openness and exchange—has been fundamental to the growth and development of the individual, societies, and humanity. It remains so still. This reality is at the center of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (CDAC), their histories, cultural interactions, challenges and opportunities as Asian nations. Under the auspices of President Xi Jinping, China seeks to build a community with a shared future for humanity.
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Periods of enlightenment, of the individual and of society in its totality, have marked the path of mankind throughout history. Nations have been forged from the imagination, arisen through reason, concretized through common sense and practicality, ripe with possibility to improve the human and world condition. The arc of characters echoing through the chambers of time, timely in message and meaning even today, have been as diverse as they have been divulging in answer to our most basic questions, needs…
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Why China’s narrative is relevant in the world today
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”
In his novel A Tale of Two Cities, famed British author Charles Dickens was speaking not of two cities per se, but two experiences, perspectives, and of a divergence of ideals that resulted in the convergence of disharmonious forces. And while his setting was centuries in the past, he might well have been invoking the global landscape of today, one of nations in dichotomy central to our collective fate as humanity.
China and the United States, a tale of two nations, a destiny shared by one world.
The remarkable story of China’s reemergence as a world power and purveyor of ideals and…
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Humanity is at it again: master storyteller for those who enjoy a good tale. This one comes by way of a man who woul…
There are two truths. There used to be one.
Two truths. The narrative we tell ourselves, tell one another, to satisfy…