“I confess that I am no longer brave, my dear. We build this world and it collapses, then we build it again, so we collapse! ” - Ernest Hemingway
- The world beyond Corona. The world before Corona.
- The world after 9/11. The world before 9/11.
- The world before the Gulf wars. The world after the Gulf wars. - The world before the occupation of Iraq. The world after the occupation of Iraq.
- The world before the World War. The world after it.
- The world before I entered the bathroom.
- The world after my exit from it. The world before .. (a void fill it with you as you like). And the world beyond .. (emptiness itself).
These are all attempts that a person seeks to convince himself through, that an event will happen and that change will take place. I must wait for that moment. The next moment of turn - whether for better or for worse - then I will act, in a miserable attempt to mortgage the present with the grip of the future that will come, so it is not important to focus at the present moment, because there is a change in circumstances that will happen then we must wait a little.
But what if anticipation takes so long?
The present faded out of our hands, and the future was never certain; rather, it was akin to a state of mystery and speculation?
“But let me tell you something important. Don't spend your life ending this and that period. That the period of study ends, that the period of forced recruitment ends, that the period of your assignment end in Kenya ... etc. You will find that your life has become a set of periods that must end, then you discover that you have reached the end of life and have not enjoyed your life one day, you must enjoy every period as if it is the only final image of your life"
Dr- Tawfiq
In Chaos Physics, for example, chaotic systems are classified into two parts. Class 1. Chaos System and Class 2. Chaos System It can be said that life, including days that come and lives that are living, falls within the second chaos system. The system of the first degree is a system that does not interact with the initial inputs, interactions and conditions, that is, it is fixed, and therefore it has predetermined and predictable results, as there is no suspicion of its primitive conditions. For example, imagine that: (2 + 2 = 4).
Can we influence or interact with these parties? Is it possible, for example, that the father of the number 2 die suddenly, his job is disrupted, he does not combine himself with himself and leads to 4? of course not. It is fixed and does not interact with inputs. The result is always predictable, and this applies to mathematics, chemistry, and solid sciences.
On the contrary, the system of chaos comes from the second degree in which we classified life within it, and we can set history as well, it is a system that interacts with inputs and data, and the tax of this interaction and flexibility in the primitive conditions is that predicting what will happen becomes almost impossible.
For example, we have a group of Neanderthals who had to migrate somewhere along the forest paths. On the go way, many reactions can change the outcome and make prediction difficult, because there can be a river that cuts the path of this group, and these migrants are likely to face a flock of predators and eat them, and they can die of hunger on the road because of the lack of stocks Food..etc.
Back to Corona
And until we are in the end merely weak human beings subject to the laws of nature and influence their inputs, we can say that the future will always be foggy and unpredictable only in its near scope. That is, we are like cars that have a light that only shines through. Only a limited light ahead, but to say that we are hovercraft see for forward, backward, and periphery, this is a major risk that will come the closest "black swan" in the language of destroy its path.
The motivation for saying this, these recent predictions about the Corona virus and how everyone is looking for what will happen. China will go up. Neoliberalism will fall. The world will unite. The economy will collapse. America to its demise. Cruise people to growth ... etc.
Someone may ask and say: See these expectations. Have you not said now that history, with its lives, is a system of chaos of the 2nd rank? That is, it is not predictable and predictable, see these expectations and predictions!
In fact, these words are not true, because these are not predictions of primitive conditions at all, but these are completely within sight. To say that the economy will collapse and that the US will hurt is not an expectation, but something that can be easily inferred by being within the scope of our front light, that is, it is very close. He who does not see him is blind. The real prediction is that which is far away has only a simple formula. A situation similar to the supreme human being of Friedrich Nietzsche, a century from now, and not months away from a catastrophe, the results of which are clearly visible and the same has happened before dozens of times!
It appears to all of us that we do not have the future, and more than that, we have lost the past, and few have learned from it. In light of all this straying, the most important thing remains that we grab what is in our hands. This present is always wronged in all narratives and literature, everyone is either optimistic about the future or lamenting his luck on the beautiful past that he lost, and always the present is the victim of the oppressed, so he becomes a tread for the feet on the threshold of wishes that will come and the sorrows that have gone away.
However, the truth is the opposite. Although not everyone is a supporter of the present, we must be frank and say that he is largely smuggled and mercurial, as no one likes to hold him, he is elitist and does not give himself to anyone. Think for a moment with me in the introduction to this article, which you are reading now. Where is the introduction? I became past. I read it and finished it. So where is the conclusion? The conclusion is still in the future because you do not see it.
Stop time for a moment and tell me, where are you?
You are currently present. But which present? The word I read recently has gone. And now the word has gone! I became past. And the next word is still future! And so with all the letters! So how do we control the present? Anything before I reached it is a future, and after I reach it it becomes past? How do I catch the present with my hand?
Perhaps the solution was with East Asian philosophies, which always praised meditation, mindfulness and focus, to the point that when a monk entered a mouthful of food he kept chewing for a long time. He wants to capture the present with this little bite. They quickly melt, descend, and become past. And before that you will be in the future while preparing it.
As for the present moment, it is very sensitive. It needs a presence, a focus. And no one has the ability to do so.
"We realized long ago that this world could not be turned, nor changed for the better, nor did it stop its miserable flow forward. There was only one possible resistance, and that was not to take it seriously. ”- Milan Kundera
Leave the world, my dear. The world after Corona and before. The world before its disaster and the world as after its disaster. Get this heavy scientist off your frail shoulder and do not strain yourself, it has been in its vicious circle for a long time. It is nothing new. What concerns us is to focus on what is in our hands. Where is the introduction to the article? It is now a memory .. Where is what you will do later? It is still in the future. Either a near future you perceive as the car's light in sight, or that unpredictable distant as in chaos and diaspora systems.
What we have is very little and uncontrolled space from the present, pay it off. To help you a little now. Let's slow down this article. Let's slow down the reading voice on your mind right now, the voice you imagine as a voice for me as I write. Slow down a bit ... Slow down more ... Slow down more and more ...
Did you catch her? The present moment? That shy mercury moment?
Man is always absent. Either he drugged himself in the past and puts his first foot in it. Or he walks with the unassigned future to put his other foot in its scope, and the present kicks him between his legs, so there is no lintel left on him, and the inevitable result is the loss of the past and the future together.
The fact that time is a constant physical arrow is predictable and predictable, and once you are zero in the present, it will be zero in the future and zero in the past as a summation.