Todd Hayen is a Canadian psychotherapist who wrote a great piece, In The Eye Of The Storm, published by Off-Guardian (which is one of the best news sources around, and whose editor was on my podcast).
So, the surface is calm. The surface thinks the crises is over, at least very close to over, people are kept on their toes (which is the intention) with little nudges here and there: Ukraine/Russia, Monkeypox, HIV, Climate Change, etc.
Todd joined me for a conversation about the dangers of becoming complacent in the aftermath of the dying Covid narrative. Enemies notoriously attack when the defences are down.
First comes the preparation of the garden space. Plowing, digging, tilling, turning. A huge operation. Back when I was a kid and had a garden in the country, preparing raw land for a large plot was a massively disruptive ordeal. First the land was plowed with the tractor to tear into the raw ground and turn it, then another round of the tractor pulling large cylinder discs to break up the rough plowed ground. Then you went out there with just your muscles, a pickaxe, a hoe, and a shovel and broke up everything even more, turning under fertilizer, manure, and other soil amendments.
The calm before the storm.
It was a great discussion, as Todd and I riffed while simultaneously covering a lot of ground.
