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Quilted Time, Dispersed Society

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A reflection written during the pandemic, 2020

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20.06.2020

An essay written at home in June 2020, while participating in a Quilting Project: "The New Normal for Post Corona 20.06.2020 One guaranteed outcome from an economic crisis like the Great Depression is the collective trauma spreading worldwide. In addition to this case, the economic crisis agitated economic equilibrium deepened generating increasing problems in a path of the economic system to collapse. For example market manipulation, oil shock(value), prices, supply, exportation, demand (domestic demand). Certainly, such fundamental economic matters and facts have aroused considerable alarm about the global crisis. I figured we should not rule out the possibilities that the current social unrest brought up by the economic damage is bringing because it can be considered as a lot of trauma as it can lead to mutual conflicts, hateful subjects, and social prejudices. In a life-threatening emergency crisis like Covid-19, people were and still are deeply hurt by losing their life-pattern: freedom, economic capacity for working, or even relatives' death. As a result, the deep/distance between economic reform and human well-being is growing and degenerating in socio-economy Today, I feel like the current situation has returned, which smells like someone, who anybody stood transfixed with discomposed. I was already aware of the previous wave and the damage and conflict, it left on society. The more we are inhaling the violet perfume slowly, it makes us think of dandelions in springtime, which dandelion’s seeds would be dispersed far distances to society as a group, have been causing an allergic reaction to a human being. Times like this, it feels quite sticky, but not unfamiliar. My body is also gradual, becoming attached to fixed in the sensitive and crowded situation in nowadays society, in there was pervaded with doubt and critical vibe. Therefore I have been initially trying to react against these allergies, which were the cynical socio-economic mood, collective-egoism, and unknown hatred. I was already aware of the previous wave and the damage and conflict, it left on society. Additionally, the more we have experience inconsistent conflicts, the more our emotions have veered between fear and anger, also we have been even more feeling tense because it will be the psychology of the crowd. I figured we have been highly influenced by psychological distress in the global society, which has kept the social, culture, racial, and individual prejudice, obsessive closed human-relationship, and a rigid stereotype. such behaviour has been encouraging more human error. we have ended up protecting ourselves through defence mechanism and have been highly influenced by psychological distress in the collective. Despite a first-hand experience of the great depression, there will always occur conflicts, of which are hard to fully grasp the understanding. Especially, in the relationship between me and other things. We can think about what is the social conflict, this is actually a pretty comprehensive issue to anybody. the social division of conflicts in collective communities can be raised doubts about what people do socially unjust discrimination. there is an atomizing stage in the part of social conflict, which causes to some case of a person would be isolated in the modern collective society, this consists main reason in consequence of doubt, distrust, injustice, a difference of understood and the relationship of view of value sensitively. As a matter of fact, I think the causes of the global crisis, is correlated to the complex and dysfunctional relationship between human life and the capitalist society. Basically, it is because of the greed human beings possesses. That is why the government and the collective society has been ignoring that issue which is the root to everything. We only leave footprints and make memories. We have a lot of experience in feeling and seeing situations of conflict, but the significant histories are slowly disappearing from our memories. Currently, we caught wind of Post-Covid and should be in the face of what the New Normal must be pinpointed to us clearly. What meaning, will it have on us and society specifically. What exactly, is the New Normal? The New Normal is in fact an economic jargon. It is a new standard, that has emerged from changes over time and it wishes to generate a new social order. It means society to self-reflect through a global perspective that remembers the past and present. I figured that the new standard is a reflexive issue of society and its consistent social conflicts. Generally, the fundamental role of the New Standard should never be one specific thing only. From a diverse point of view, it should encourage the resilience of any crisis and solve any other relevant issue. Furthermore, it must strengthen and keep our social consciousness consistently. When social conflicts and complex experiences happen, people tend to reflect, worry, and think a lot. The lack of support in this matter makes it hard to react maturely. This is only repeated if not handled correctly. I would like just to ask, what do you think of what is the single most important thing we need to be doing right now as humans and for global coexistence like. then I thought we need to make it a habit to respect for others and careful concern in society, it means that we should be aware of a significant, propriety and moral standard and rule keenly, it is like ethical responsibility. I was able to have a lot of time was possible to observe everything during this time, recognized nature has overcome the force of gravity for a long time. the human being is feeling to be related to a lot of natural factors by the provision of nature, it is relatively formal and looking for just being of convenience, which is a structural side with intuitive. Antoni Gaudi Cornet said that Straight lines belong to people and the Curved line belongs to nature. I imagined almost material thing of nature consisted of which has adapted to the force of gravity, but the human society might not be able to be absolutely leveled off a conflictual atmosphere in the unprecedented crisis when it comes to just general economic and political measure without sympathetic understanding, interest and relative support. For me, society means just someplace to defended, in which weak human-being go off and be hidden, it will be getting fragile someday. I thought we will be left out, if we can not control from weak human-being ourselves in society, that’s my feeling of what is the society. I am carefully assuming Nomadism space in the future which all will be getting used to rapidly passed time from the crisis. That is because we have taken a lot of things for granted which we always want to be complacent with comfortable. According to some expert, the human being, who means a virus-house, it building up collective power of the virus and living narrowly on human being, means an entity, that’s the reason the virus is also growing up, why it is impossible to level off against them and has a ground for a symbiotic relationship with human to evolution. so we should reconsider how we can minimize damage from virus. The virus is an organism, it is a viewless dwarf, also a vision of the universe. We make an expedition into universe space, discovering something, what something happens, and should only see and understand this time, what something happens. Usually, we might look forward to opportunities what the prime time of our economy is. Absolutely, it will entrench the interests of new things, but it is not about the nature of the challenge of new crisis. The collective society will be able to fall into the worst economic crisis with sensitive conflict of our lifetime in face of great challenges, in the face of entrenched interest, in the face of some case of unprecedented obstruction and the cynical space. In other cases, obstructions like a new wave can emerge. It can lead to a complex relationship when in doubt among the collective community. All that is understood by people. Richard Phillips Feynman said, you must be in some specific framework that you allow something to be true, when you explain a why. Otherwise, you're perpetually asking why, and how difficult the why-question is. You must know, what it is that you are permitted to understand and allow to be understood and known, and what it is your're not. that the more I ask why, the more interested it gets. And so we begin to get very interesting understanding of the world and all its complications if you try to follow anything up. you go deeper and deeper in various directions."

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