Something that the Coronavirus crisis teaches us (if it was not created in a lab as some say) is that you cannot control everything. There is always something new, something unforeseen and unplanned that changes things and leaves us exposed and vulnerable to external conditions, showing the truth of the human condition. This is the way in which chaos originates, or rather, the way in which nature expresses its own order.
Nature teaches us how man has no control even over his own existence, and can only choose how to react to events of fortune. This can drive people hungry for control, and this is basically why communism doesn't work. You can't plan everything.
Faced with the desire for control, it is contrasted with freedom and the flow of life with carefreeness, as the Taoists teach, without wanting to control everything and without wanting to have everything calculated. It's called freedom the ability to live in harmony with life and with what it presents to us daily.
And it is in this harmony, of apparent chaos, in which the vicissitudes of life, the collapse of health systems, the economic crisis, are presented, and hidden among the riots, the latent desire of governments to have more power also appears, for having, coincidentally, more control, in a long-standing task, and which, after all, turned out to be as useless as the attempts we can have ourselves to have more control over our own destiny.
With all this mess, we can complain about what is happening and worry to the limit of stress, or finally accept that the power to control the future of humanity is not in our hands, nor is it in the hands of politicians or any other person. Only the power to decide what to do and how to deal with this and the subsequent crises is in our hands. The power to let go of control in this life and accept the course to which things are naturally directed, in a position of surrender to the universe.
Because that is the only thing we can do, as if we were spectators of our own life, passive observers of what happens to us, accept the course of all things, or suffer. Because that is really the choice, not believing that it is about controlling or not controlling what happens to us, but rather letting go of control, or suffering for not having it.
That is the illusion in which we live, to believe that we can control everything and that we have the ability to move our boat in any direction. But life has other plans.
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