Now, the Open Moment

Georgia NeSmith
5 min readApr 9, 2020

In conversation with “When It Comes to Hunger, the Worst Is Yet to Come: unless we demand a change from the current system” by Heated Editors

Photo by Andrea Bellucci @andreabellucci in Unsplash

We are at an open moment in our economic and social history — a crossroads where, depending on which values we wish to emphasize and which old ones, if any, we are prepared to drop because they have become outdated and dangerous to ourselves and to humanity.

I wrote earlier about a potential positive future resulting from the current challenges we face and will soon be facing as our economy collapses because of the COVID19 shutdown…

Or…This is How Civilization Finally Changes for the Better

…which I wrote in conversation with “This is How Our Civilization Ends … A Brief, Scary History of the Next Three Decades” by umair haque, whose description of a quite scary dystopia reflects a quite plausible, though opposite direction from the one I construct. Truthfully I see no reason at the moment why the darker vision won’t become reality. I’m just one of those people always trying to look “at the bright side,” because focusing on the dark side leaves me blind.

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Georgia NeSmith

Retired professor, feminist, writer, photographer, activist, grandmother of 5, overall Wise Woman. Phd UIA School of Journalism & Mass Communication, 1994.